Nicoline de Haan is a senior researcher and the leader of the gender team at ILRI, responsible for leading the work on gender and livestock to ensure equitable development. She has over 15 years of expertise in gender, rural livelihoods, agriculture, and natural resource management. Previously she led the work on gender, poverty and institutions under the CGIAR program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and before that was with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) where she led the global socio-economic team on animal health. De Haan has a master’s in development sociology from Wageningen Agricultural University, and a PhD in rural sociologist from University of Missouri, Colombia.