Lim Li Ching

Lim Li Ching is co-chair of IPES-Food and a Senior Researcher at Third World Network (TWN), with expertise on biodiversity, biosafety and sustainable agriculture. TWN is an international policy research and advocacy NGO based in Malaysia, focusing on the rights of peoples in the Global South, a fair distribution of world resources, and ecologically sustainable development that fulfills human needs. 

A leading civil society voice in numerous intergovernmental processes, Li Ching has also served on various expert groups established under the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. She has contributed to various international publications on sustainable agriculture (e.g. by UNESCAP, UNEP, UNCTAD) and was a regional lead author of the International Assessment on Agricultural Science, Technology and Knowledge for Development (IAASTD). And she currently serves as an advisor to the Agroecology Fund. She has a B.Sc. in Ecology and an M.Phil. in Development Studies.