Dr. Risti Permani is a member of the CIPS Board of Directors and senior lecturer in agribusiness at the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland.

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Prior to her current role, Dr. Permani was a senior lecturer at the Department of Economics, Deakin University, an assistant director of the ASEAN Integration Monitoring Directorate at the ASEAN secretariat, and a research fellow/lecturer at the Centre for Global Food and Resources, the University of Adelaide. In these positions, she undertook extensive research on topics such as livestock policy, Australia-Indonesia beef and dairy supply chains, agricultural trade, the adoption of agricultural innovations by smallholder producers, and agrifood e-commerce.

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Dr. Permani has a PhD and Master in Economics from the University of Adelaide, and a Bachelor of Science in Statistics (minor in Agricultural Economics) from the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB).