Dr. Sophia Huyer is Gender and Social Inclusion Leader at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) at ILRI. She is a Visiting Fellow at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and a member of the Scientific Committee for the AWARD One Planet Climate Fellowship. She was with the Gender Advisory Board of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (GAB-CSTD) from 1998 - 2014 and Senior Advisor to the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) at The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) from 2009-2013. Recent publications include “Weathering the Storm or Storming the Norms? Gender Equality in CSA” as Guest Editor of the special issue in Climatic Change on Gender Equality and Climate-smart Agriculture (2020); and “Gender and Food Security in a Changing Climate” (2019) in Taking stock: Data and evidence on gender equality in digital access, skills and leadership published by the UNU Institute on Computing and Society/ITU. She is lead author of the chapter “From Agency to Vulnerability: Gender Equality in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation” in the forthcoming Gender Platform book Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: past, present, and future. Sophia held a Fulbright Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2000. She received her Ph.D. from York University in Toronto.