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Dr. Kristjanson is a Canadian agricultural economist whose expertise includes poverty analyses, impact assessment, agricultural policy analysis and implementation, and agricultural production and marketing systems analysis. She has 16 years of post-graduate experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams from international and national agricultural research centres, in collaboration with universities, donors and governments in 15 African countries, Peru, India, and 5 SE Asian countries. She has teaching experience at the University level and in applied economic and policy analysis training in Africa and Asia. She is currently a leader of the 'Poverty, Sustainable Livelihoods and Livestock' program at the International Livestock Research Institute, based in Nairobi, focusing on better understanding the role that livestock can play in sustainable poverty alleviation throughout the developing world and the policy and technology implications. In the last 5 years, she has published 21 peer-reviewed articles in journals and proceedings, is an author of 2 books and 3 book chapters, and has presented numerous papers at international conferences.