Oxfam
Laté Lawson-Lartego is Oxfam America’s Food Systems Theme Department Director and has over 20 years of experience across the private and nonprofit sectors. His Theme works to tackle the inequality, gender injustice and climate change in the food systems. The theme focuses on three inter-related areas: Corporate Engagement for an inclusive value chains; Women’s Economic Empowerment and Food & Climate Justice with the ambition of achieving an equitable, inclusive and sustainable food system for all. Before joining Oxfam, he spent a vast majority of his career with CARE International in various capacities in country offices in West Africa, regional and global roles. While with CARE, he and his team pioneered CARE’s first Market Engagement & Value Chain Development strategy and implementation, enabling CARE to impact over 10 million people, especially women. Laté has master’s degrees in Economics with a major in Management and Rural Social Development respectively from University of Togo and Reading University in the UK. He has recently earned a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration from Georgia State University. His research interest is centered on the intersection of innovative business solutions to poverty reduction in the food and other economic development spaces. He now lives in the DC area.
