Dr. Hans-Jörg Lutzeyer, Active SeniorSCAR Secretariat EU-African Union Food Systems R&I Horizon Europe Food Systems Partnership. He was previously the senior policy officer at Directorate General Research and Innovation of the European Commission, based in Brussels, in the Bioeconomy and Food Systems unit (FOOD 2030). He was in charge of food systems Africa and co-chairing the EU-African Union (AU) Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) working group of the EU-AU Partnership on FNSSA. He is executive secretary of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research, which provides advice to the Commission, Member States and Associated Countries on strategic research and innovation in agriculture, food systems and the bioeconomy. He is also contact for the Horizon Europe candidate partnership on sustainable food systems for people, planet & climate.

Before joining the European Commission in 2001, he worked on short term assignments in Benin, Morocco, Brazil and Kenya and later co-ordinating for the German Research Ministry food systems related international research. He did his agronomy PhD at University of Hohenheim (Germany) with two year field studies in West Africa (Benin Republic) at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), one of the CGIAR Centres.