Julie Howard

Non-resident Senior Advisor – Center for Strategic and International Studies

Agriculture & Rural Development Working Group Co-Chair

Julie Howard is an independent consultant focusing on food and agricultural system development in sub-Saharan Africa and related US policies and programs.  She is a non-resident Senior Adviser in the Global Food and Water Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  Dr. Howard is a Director of the World Vegetable Center and chairs the Board’s  Nominations and Governance Committee. She co-chairs the Agriculture and Rural Development Working Group of the Scaling Community of Practice.  From 2011-2014, Dr. Howard served as the first chief scientist in the Bureau for Food Security and senior adviser to the USAID administrator on agricultural research, extension, and education. Previously she was CEO of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, a nongovernmental research and advocacy organization, and a faculty member and senior adviser at Michigan State University. She holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from MSU and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic.