Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike is a Professor of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness with a PhD. She is a global/Adjunct faculty member of the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa. Professor Achike is currently the Director of the Gender and Development Policy Centre of University of Nigeria Nsukka, the team leader of Nigeria’s Community Based Poverty Monitoring System (CBMS-Nigeria). She has worked as a consultant trainer for many national and international organizations as well as a member of many professional organizations. She has more than eighty publications and twenty research grants..