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.

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.

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).