Livelihoods Specialist, Cargill
Rupert is Livelihoods Specialist in Cargill’s Food Sustainability Team, based in Amsterdam. His work focuses on building the socio-economic resilience of farming households in Cargill supply chains, including through Cargill’s cocoa sustainability program, the Cargill Cocoa Promise.
Before joining Cargill in 2021, Rupert worked for Farm Africa, a UK-based NGO, supporting market development in smallholder supply chains across East Africa. Prior to that, Rupert lived and worked in Sierra Leone as country lead for a cocoa buyer and exporter.