Jonathan oversees all AGRA’s technical areas that form the Center of Technical Expertise, spanning policy and state capability; inclusive markets, trade and finance; seed systems (CESSA); sustainable farming and climate change; digitalization; gender, youth and inclusiveness. He also oversees AGRA’s data and analytics team, and its institutional partnerships. His role is to ensure AGRA delivers the impact set out in its AGRA 3.0 Strategy. Jonathan is a development economist specializing in industrial policy implementation. For five years he was Technical Director (Africa) for the Tony Blair Institute where he launched its industrialization, agriculture and human capital development practices while expanding its energy and climate and its centre of government delivery practices across 16 African countries. He spent 8 years serving as an embedded economic advisor in the governments of Liberia, Malawi and Guyana during which time he supported these countries to accelerate their agriculture and agro-processing industries while improving their enabling environment through reforms in sectors like trade facilitation, energy and road infrastructure, and education. He spent the first four years of his career working in the United Kingdom. Jonathan has written extensively on the topic of job creation and industrialization in Africa, publishing with the Global Development Institute, the Tony Blair Institute, the Overseas Development Institute, the Pan- African Review and various media outlets. Jonathan grew up in Malta and read MSc Economics at the University of Warwick. Jonathan has twenty years of work experience, including 9 years working as a long-term embedded advisor inside the governments of Guyana (as an ODI Fellow), Malawi (with Imani Development) and Liberia (with Tony Blair Institute). He spent 5 years as a leader in the Africa Division of the Tony Blair Institute where his work spanned 16 African countries and where he established various sectoral practices including on Agriculture and Food, and on Industrialization. At the Tony Blair Institute he directed the centre of government and delivery practice, its energy and climate practice, its human capital practice and its monitoring, evaluation and learning department. Since summer 2022, he has been a freelance consultant working with various countries in Africa and organizations such as the African Development Bank, Gatsby Africa, the Africa Capacity Building Foundation, the USAID Soybean Innovation Lab, the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. During this time, he also supported pro-bono, a new not-for-profit called Growth Teams that focuses on implementation support to governments in Africa and India on economic transformation strategies.