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D. in Agricultural Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1974). He has been professor of Economics, Agricultural and Food Policy, Rural Development and Food Security at ETSIAAB-UPM. He has been Director of CEIGRAM-UPM from December 2016 to May 2019, having also been the promoter of the idea of its creation together with the Minister of Agriculture at the time between 2003 and 2004.

He has advised different national governments in Latin America, Spain, Italy and EU Commission, consultant for international agencies (FAO, IDB, IICA) and member of advisory boards of international institutions and EU research projects. He has worked for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington as Rural Development Expert. Between 2007 and 2011 he has been Assistant Director-General of the FAO Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department and Assistant Director-General of the FAO Technical Cooperation Department.

In 2019 he has been appointed member of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE), science-policy interface of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS).

He has supervised 6 PhD theses and published more than 100 papers and 15 books on agricultural economics, land reform policies, water management, agricultural policy, environmental economics, rural and territorial development, volatility of international food markets and global food crisis.