World Economic Forum
Project
Lead, Food Innovation Hub India
Job
category Temporary/Full-time
Group Platform for Global
Public Goods
Location Mumbai
Project Lead, Food Innovation
Hub India
(2 year fixed-duration contract)
The World
Economic Forum and several partners have joined efforts to catalyze and support
regional Food Innovation Hubs that will leverage the role of technology and
broader innovation in support of a transformation agenda that leads to more
inclusive, efficient, sustainable, nutritious and healthy food systems. In
support of this agenda, several regional Food Innovation Hubs are in
development in Africa, Latin America, ASEAN, India and Europe which will
collectively support the strengthening of local innovation ecosystems that
leads to: a) increased investments in inclusive and scalable technology
solutions; b) equitable access to innovations for farmers to consumers; c)
support the enabling environment through policy incentives, capacity building
and knowledge; d) mitigate unintended consequences of technology innovations
and improve the resiliency of food systems; and e) unlock institutional
bottlenecks to scale impact for systemic change.
With support from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum and other partners, are
catalyzing a Food Innovation Hub in India that will aim to leverage technology
and broader innovation to build more efficient, inclusive, sustainable,
nutritious and healthy food systems. In India, the Hubs will focus on three
primary outcomes (i) increase investments in technology innovations and
integrated value chains promoting sustainability and nutrition; (ii) improve
the policy environment and local innovation ecosystems by strengthening local
capacities and evidence-based decision-making processes; and (iii) improve
smallholder farmers access to markets and technology innovations.
The World Economic Forum is looking
for a dynamic and self-motivated individual to lead the development of the Food
Innovation Hub in India, based out of the Forum’s Centre for Fourth Industrial
Revolution (C4IR) office based in Mumbai. The role will involve platform and
partnership curation in the development of next generation of multistakeholder
partnerships in India and will involve close coordination and interaction with
the network of regional Food Innovations Hubs in development in Asia Africa,
Europe and Latin America.
Reporting Lines & Interactions:
The Project Lead will report to the
Head, Food Systems Innovation, at the Food Systems Initiative of the Forum’s
Centre for Global Public Goods. The Project Lead will be part of the Forum’s
Food Systems Initiative and will work closely with internal colleagues in business
and government engagement, C4IR, Centre for Global Public Goods, civil society
among others. Externally, the person will work closely with the Global
Coordinating Secretariat of the Food Innovations Hub based in The Netherlands
and Geneva as well as the global leadership councils supporting the Hubs.
The position will be based out of
the Forum’s Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) office in Mumbai and
will work closely with the C4IR India to ensure alignment and
complementarities.
Key responsibilities:
The role will involve leading the development of a Food Innovation Hub in India in close collaboration with local and global stakeholders. The Hub in India will be part of the network of Food Innovation
