Yon Fernandez-de-Larrinoa is the Team Leader of the FAO Indigenous Peoples Team. An Agricultural Economist from the UAM of Madrid with a MABD on entitlements and food security. He joined FAO in 1998, having worked in the Policy Assistance Division; the Investment Center; and in the Emergencies Division. Yon has worked in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Before joining the Partnerships and Advocacy Division in 2010, he coordinated emergency relief operations for FAO at the Haiti Earthquake, Peru Earthquake; H5N1 Influenza; and Asian Tsunami. Yon has been involved in developing a series of innovative livelihood approaches, like: the concept of seed fairs; the FAO Pastoralists Knowledge Hub; The Strategy for FAO to partner with Civil Society; The Guidelines for balanced Civil society representation in FAO and the introduction in FAO’s work of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). From 2010 to 2014 he led the FAO Civil Society team, working to support the reform of the World Committee of Food Security by enabling the participation of civil society in the policy discussions. In 2014, he started leading the FAO Indigenous Peoples team to implement the 2010 FAO policy on Indigenous peoples