Dr. Ashwini Sebastian

Dr. Ashwini Sebastian is a Senior Agriculture Economist at the World Bank, where she leads the agriculture portfolio in Ghana and manages the West Africa Food Systems Resilience Program, a regional operation that spans eight countries and works with ECOWAS and other regional organizations. Her work covers food security and resilience, cocoa and other tree crops, export diversification, digital agriculture and technology adoption, market access, and forests and climate change.

Ashwini has been with the World Bank for over a decade. She was previously an Economist with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, and before that worked with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. She holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.