Chris Hegadorn is Adjunct Professor of Global Food Politics at Sciences Po University in Paris where he teaches graduate courses on global food systems and linkages between food production, climate change and public health. Mr Hegadorn leads the Consortium for Sustainable Agrivoltaics (C4SA) Foundation, a Paris-based non-profit that focuses on accelerating uptake of, and investments in, agrivoltaic approaches in developing countries at the nexus of food, energy and water security. He also curates customized food crisis simulation workshops for governments and experts to strengthen food systems resilience and disaster preparedness. A former U.S. diplomat, Mr Hegadorn spent more than three decades in international development and multilateralism, serving in Asia, Africa, the Near East and with the UN, including nearly four years as Executive Secretary of the UN’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome.