Patricia Caporaso
Secretary
Patricia Caporaso has 25 years of international executive leadership experience in agribusiness, food systems, and animal production in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and North America.
She is the Managing Director and Founder of Food for Development, a global consultancy focusing on food systems, rural development, agribusiness, and the integration of private/public sector goals with food insecure communities in Latin America and Africa.
She is also the President/CEO/Founder of ynSyte (INSIGHT), one of the world’s leading research and business intelligence software companies.
Patricia is a regular Guest Lecturer and Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University in the area of food systems, trade and value chains, livestock production and climate change.
She holds two Master degrees (from the University of Buenos Aires in Agronomy and from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Services focusing on Political Economy in Latin America) and is multi-lingual, speaking English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Patricia has been a strong advocate for integrating climate change into food policy and agriculture discussions, agriculture land into conservation easements and environmental stewardship. She had served in multiple Boards of Directors as well in Board of Advisers. In PEI, She currently serves as a Secretary of the Board of Directors of the PEI Beekeeping Association and as Secretary and member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Governance Committee of the Island Nature Trust.
