Alejandro Escobar is an Agricultural Economist and Systems Analyst by training, and has worked for almost 20 years in rural microfinance and agricultural value chains. He is currently Lead Investment and Operations Officer with the Multilateral Investment Fund, where he has led multiple projects in sustainable agriculture, financing of farmer cooperatives, development of investment vehicles for agricultural finance, rural microfinance, and value chain development with small farmers throughout the Latin American region. Prior to that, he worked at DuPont in the Global Supply Chain group of Tyvek, working on the development of global demand planning and financial forecasting tools. Earlier in his career, Escobar worked with MEDA and Sarona Global Investment Funds, based in Bolivia and Peru, as a technical advisor to cooperatives and farmer associations in the export sector.

Escobar participated in Panel 2: The Nutritional and Resilient Power of Diversity at the Agrobiodiversity Symposium on Day 2 of the Food Forever Experience Cusco.