Pedro Sanchez (born October 7, 1940) is the director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center,[1] senior research scholar, and director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Sanchez was director general of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya from 1991-2001, and served as co-chair of the UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force.
His professional career has been dedicated to help eliminate world hunger and absolute rural poverty while protecting and enhancing the tropical environment.
He is the author of "Properties and Management of Soils of the Tropics" (rated among the top 10 best-selling books in soil science worldwide), co-author of "Halving Hunger: It can be done" and author of over 250 scientific publications.
In 2021, Sanchez was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award.