Meet the 2024 Mentors

These mentors are creating or adapting tools, models, approaches, and/or harness technology to solve challenges within the food system.

Akanji Abiola - Chef Stone

Founder, Red Dish Chronicles

Top Chef Category

V. Sheree Williams

Executive Director & Publisher/Editor, The Global Food and Drink Initiative

Food & Beverage Narrative Changers category

Dr Ifeanyi Nsofor

Member, Global Fellows Advisory Board, The Atlantic Institute Rhodes Trust Oxford

Trailblazer category

Maureen Munjua

Country Representative, Tanager

Disruptor category

Dr Anna Marie Ball

Country Chairperson of Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System, (BASICSII) project

Ecosystem Enablers category