Rewa Misra

Program Head

Rewa Misra is the Head of National Policy and Innovative Financing in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. She is responsible for supporting the scale-up of biofortification through policy and partnerships with governments and multilateral financial institutions. Through her work, Rewa helps to develop public-private investment and technical support models that can enable a strong ecosystem for nutrition and climate-smart agriculture. Prior to joining HarvestPlus, Rewa worked with the MasterCard Foundation in Toronto, leading a $200 million rural and agriculture financing portfolio. She is a development economist and holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and is undertaking her PhD in Economic Sciences with the University of Gottingen, Germany, with a focus on climate-smart agriculture.



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