Devra I. Jarvis is the Coordinator of the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR), President of the Raffaella Foundation, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, an Adjunct Faculty at Washington State University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II, Morocco. From 2013 to 2015, she was the Chair of the Science Council for the Agropolis Foundation. Jarvis holds a PhD in Botany/Palynology, an MSc in Forest Management from the University of Washington, and a BA with Honors in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. For the past 25 years, Jarvis conducted collaborative research with national partners in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe to support local crop genetic diversity to improve the production and resilience of smallholder farmers. She is the co-author of over 80 research articles, book chapters, and proceedings.