Nelissa Jamora

Nelissa is an agricultural economist with over a decade of experience in international development, currently leading the monitoring and evaluation of global programs and projects at the Crop Trust. She joined the Crop Trust in 2015, and her work ensures accountability, learning, and strategic impact across initiatives that safeguard crop diversity and promote the use of plant genetic resources in genebanks.

Nelissa has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Göttingen in Germany and an MSc from Michigan State University in the USA. Her interest in agricultural development was motivated from her early work at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) on price and market analysis and impact assessment involving rice farmers in the Philippines. Nelissa received a USA Fulbright scholarship in 2004 and a grant for early-researchers in 2014 from the German Research Foundation. She was recognized as a Young Rice Scientist at the International Rice Congress in 2014 for her work on rice price analysis.