As part of PepsiCo’s Global Sustainable Agriculture team, Jeff Halvorson supports efforts to achieve the company’s sustainable sourcing objectives through partnership with external organizations such as peer companies, donors, development finance institutions, and private foundations. Over the past three years, Jeff has helped build and launch partnership solutions that address systemic challenges facing PepsiCo’s Procurement teams in multiple regions and crops, including ones with USAID and the IDB that aim to prove the business case for women’s economic empowerment.
With the launch of PepsiCo’s ever-more ambitious sustainable business agenda, the Sustainable Agro team increasingly looks to multi-stakeholder, pre-competitive, and shared value partnerships as critical to the success of PepsiCo and our supply chain partners – especially farmers. Indeed, Jeff’s work with external partners centers around solutions that improve the resilience of our farmers and farming communities, most notably those in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South/Southeast Asia.
Prior to PepsiCo, Jeff worked at Resonance, a consulting firm that builds public-private collaboration solutions for corporate, donor, and NGO clients in emerging markets. He helped donors integrate private sector engagement strategies into their programming across sectors, regions, and value chains, including many that align with PepsiCo’s sustainability agenda.
Before moving into the world of sustainability and private sector engagement, Jeff was an independent partnerships consultant in Seattle as well as Program Director for two international leadership development companies. These experiences gave him the opportunity to work with a wide range of stakeholders in the creation of shared value partnership solutions as well as cross-cultural experiential learning programs. He has an MPA from University of Washington and BA from the University of Southern California and lives in Washington, DC.