Mr Seré is the Chief Development Strategist of IFAD and heads the Office of Strategy and Knowledge Management.  Prior to joining IFAD, Mr Seré worked as Director General for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya.  Before that, he worked for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) as Director of the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Montevideo, Uruguay.  From 1982 to 1990, Mr Seré worked as Senior Economist and Head of the Economics Section of the Tropical Pastures Program at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), in Colombia. Mr Seré holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart), Germany and has over 30 years of experience in agricultural research and development.