Carin Smaller biography
Carin Smaller is Senior Advisor and Team Leader on Agriculture and Investment at IISD. She has 17 years experiencing living and working in several developing countries, including Tanzania, Namibia, Nepal and India, advising governments and communities on sustainable development.
She was director of the Trade Information Project in Geneva which provided advice to developing country trade negotiators on the agriculture negotiations for the Doha Development Round. She joined IISD nine years ago and since then has advised dozens of governments on how to maximize the benefits from foreign investment in the agriculture sector.
She holds a bachelor of laws and a bachelor of political science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
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