Mahamadou Nassirou Ba is a Senior Agricultural Economic at the UN ECA working  on the nexus of climate smart agriculture, food security, trade and climate change in Africa. Before ECA, he worked for Save the Children in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and then later on with USAID (Office of Transition Initiative) in Iraq as Program Director for Southern Iraq and also with International Relief and Development based in Arlington, Virginia where he oversaw the agricultural program in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He is a Board member of Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism and has published widely on agricultural value chains.