Cristina Manfre

Cristina Manfre is the Global Gender Director at TechnoServe, where she is leading the organization’s investments in women’s economic empowerment and supporting its ability to implement its Gender Policy in its programs, administrative functions, and organizational culture. She is a gender and development specialist with more than ten years of experience improving development organizations’ attention to gender issues in economic growth, agriculture and trade programming. Previously, she was a Senior Associate with Cultural Practice, LLC from 2011-2019 where she provided ongoing technical assistance on gender integration to Lutheran World Relief, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, various CGIAR centers, and USAID, for the Feed the Future Initiative. With the USAID funded Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES) project, she co-authored the “Assessing How Agricultural Technologies can change Gender Dynamics and Food Security Outcomes.” Her most recent work includes research on gender dimensions of digital development in agricultural development, extension and advisory services, agricultural value chains (e.g., coffee, cacao, cotton, soybean, groundnut, and dairy), and behavior change in agricultural value chains. She is co-author of USAID’s “Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains: A Handbook.” Ms. Manfre has a M.Sc. in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College in French and Spanish.