Dr. Irene Annor-Frempong is the Coordinator of the H2020 LEAP4FNSSA project. She is the immediate past Director of Research and Innovation at FARA.  Irene is currently a member of the foresight4food Steering group and served as a Commissioner of the CGIAR Commission on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification (CoSAI) between 2020 and 2021. Before joining FARA in 2008, she worked for over 20 years in universities and research institutes in Nigeria, Lesotho, United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Netherlands and in Ghana - where she served as the Head of Department of Animal Science at the University of Cape Coast. She coordinated the ‘Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa’ initiative and has played significant roles in advancing the AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership through the Platform for Africa-Europe Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD), the LEAP4FNSSA, the DeSIRA pillar 2- CAADP xP4 projects and the AU-EU High Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) Working Group on FNSSA. She served on the Steering group of the World Bank Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) program and the Consultative Advisory Group on Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET), among others.  Irene holds a PhD from the Veterinary School, University of Bristol, UK. and an M Sc. in Animal production science from Wageningen University and Research.