Anthony Whitbread is Program Leader for the Sustainable Livestock Systems program and is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Prior to this, he was the Research Program Leader for ICRISAT‘s systems work based in India and Tanzania 2014-2022. His role in the CGIAR was preceded by a long research career in the crop-livestock systems of semi-arid Australia, SE Asia and Southern Africa with CSIRO Australia and as a Professor (W3) of Crop Production Systems in the Tropics at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. Anthony’s expertise covers agronomy and soil science, forages, farm systems analysis, crop modelling, climate risk management, spatial analysis all focused on research for development in smallholder farming systems. He maintains high science credibility as a highly citated author, and as an educator, being the superviser of several postdocs and PhD students through roles as Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia, external supervisor at the University of Sydney as well as continuing supervisory roles at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. He holds a B.Rur Sc.,(Hons) and a PhD from the University of New England, Australia in Soil Science and Agronomy (1997).