Shobha Shetty
Shobha Shetty is Global Director for Agriculture and Food at the World Bank, where she leads the institution’s global work on agriculture and food systems.
Prior to this role, she served as Agriculture and Food Practice Manager for both the Africa and South Asia regions. She also served as Practice Manager for Global Partnerships and Resource Mobilization within the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice, and has worked across the East Asia and Pacific and Middle East and North Africa regions.
Her areas of expertise include irrigation and water resources management, digital agriculture, agribusiness development, women’s empowerment, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, urban food systems, rural youth employment, climate resilience and rural-urban linkages.
Shobha has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCI) at Cornell University and at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Anna University in India, as well as a Master’s degree and PhD in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University.