Biography
Gustavo Anríquez is an agricultural economist with a master's and doctorate in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland. He is currently a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University. He has more than two decades of professional experience in the study of rural and territorial development and food security. For more than 10 years, he worked as a researcher and expert at the main research and dissemination centers on these topics at the World Bank (Washington, D.C.) and the FAO (Rome).
Currently, together with colleagues from the University and abroad, Professor Anríquez maintains a research portfolio that highlights the topics of territorial development, rural poverty, and food loss as an obstacle to food security and a target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).