Sr. Program Director, Sustainable Food Lab

Stephanie Daniels is Senior Program Director for the Sustainable Food Lab’s Agriculture & Development work. She manages partnerships focused on living income and sustainable livelihoods of farmers in global value chains. She is a co-founder of the Living Income Community of Practice, serves on the Alliance for Living Income in Cocoa, and co-facilitates the ICO technical workstream on living-prosperous income. Her expertise is in responsible sourcing, with a focus on the impacts of sourcing in cocoa and coffee growing communities. She is dedicated to equitable food systems that harness the power of trade to deliver positive socio-economic and environmental outcomes.

Assistant Professor, ESADE Business School

Janina Grabs is an Assistant Professor of Business and Society at the Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at ESADE Business School, Barcelona. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Münster, Germany, and previously was a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich and visiting researcher at Yale University. Her work focuses on the governance of sustainability in global value chains, with a special focus on tropical agricultural commodities such as coffee and palm oil. Her work on the effectiveness of private sustainability governance in the coffee sector has been widely recognized.

Owner, JNP Coffee

Jeanine Niyonzima-Aroian, owner, and manager of JNP Coffee, advances the global specialty coffee industry and farmers in her native Burundi, East Africa, by producing, promoting, and trading the specialty coffee grown there. With an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School and a 20-plus-year international career, she entered the coffee industry in 2012.

A strong advocate for women coffee farmers in Burundi, Jeanine supports high-quality production through Dushime® premium incentives for high-scoring coffee, lessons in financial literacy, and leadership skills. Jeanine is committed to educating Burundi’s people for the economic empowerment of self-sustaining coffee communities. She was named to the Sprudge 20 in April 2023.

A current SCA board member, Jeanine is a Licensed Q Grader and certified Q. processor Level 1. She was previously SCA Northeast Regional Coordinator, Community Coordinator for the SCA U.S. Chapter, and host of frequent online Business Chats with a wide range of experts on the coffee industry.

Sustainability Director, Specialty Coffee Association

Andrés Montenegro is the Sustainability Director at the Specialty Coffee Association. He is graduated as Agroindustrial Engineer and holds a M.Sc. in Process Design and Management with a major in food-bioprocesses. With over 15 years of experience navigating the coffee industry, he has focused his professional activity in the intersection between private companies, civil society, and governmental organizations for joint creation of innovations with shared purpose. As a coffee lover, and self-described coffee geek, he is passionate about findings ways to make coffee better, acknowledging the handprint & footprints to keep the coffee ritual thriving in tandem with society & environment.

Technical Director, Specialty Coffee Association

From a coffee producing family in Mexico, Mario R. Fernández-Alduenda has tried to understand coffee for almost 30 years, under the light of food science. He has played many roles along the chain, from processor to coffee shop owner, but has mostly focused on the study of coffee flavor, how it is perceived and appreciated, and how it is formed. He is the Technical Officer of the SCA, which he joined in 2020.

Director of Research and Development, World Coffee Research

Tania Humphrey is the Director of Research & Development (R&D) of World Coffee Research and oversees WCR’s research portfolio. She is passionate about innovation in agriculture and combines a business approach with a strong understanding of science to achieve real-world impact. Tania holds a Ph.D. in Plant Science from the University of Queensland, Australia, and, in her early career, she held research positions at both the University of Toronto and Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada. Prior to WCR, Tania served as the Vice President of R&D at Vineland Research and Innovation Centre in Canada where she led a team of scientists, engineers, and technical staff in plant variety development, consumer insights, biocontrol, and automation technologies for a wide variety of crops, including tree crops like apples and peaches, and others such as greenhouse vegetables, sweet potatoes, and roses."

Marketing Director, Hacienda El Roble Colombia

Angela Ortiz is Industrial Designer and Master in Marketing. For over 10 years of professional experience in coffee innovations, coffee business and sales with special focus on building brand management, marketing communications and campaign development.

CEO - Founder, Hacienda El Roble - Café Mesa de los Santos

Businessman and market researcher. Passionate about coffee over 40 years.

Quality Assurance Manager, Trabocca

Cerianne Bury has a background in Political Science, but pivoted her professional life to coffee after starting a job as a barista in 2005. She is now the global Quality Assurance Manager at Trabocca, a green specialty coffee importer. Her team is responsible for all coffee analyses; from green grading to moisture, and from sensory cup profiles to a wide range of laboratory testing, such as residues and OTA. She also manages certifications and Trabocca's sustainability efforts.

Chief Research Officer, Specialty Coffee Association

Peter Giuliano is the Executive Director of the Coffee Science Foundation and Chief Research Officer of the Specialty Coffee Association. With more than 30 years’ experience in the coffee trade, his focus now is on promoting research and scientific inquiry on coffee, and bringing evidence-based insights to the coffee industry.

Research Scientist, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization - Coffee Research Institute

Jane Cheserek has spent the past twelve years with the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization-Coffee Research Institute, where she works on breeding programs geared towards development of coffee varieties, including the development of markers associated with Coffee Berry Disease resistance using SNPs with GWAS and QTL mapping. She also heads the coffee germplasm conservation at the institute and the production of coffee planting materials in form of seed and seedlings for farmers, and collaborates closely with World Coffee Research for the International Multi-Locational Variety Trial (IMVLT) and INNOVEA (Global Coffee Networks) projects.

Research & Development General Manager, Penagos Hermanos

I am currently Research and Development Manager at Penagos Hermanos, a Mechanical Engineer with Specialization in Innovation Management and Product Development, for more than 26 years traveling the world of coffee, knowing its needs and developing products and solutions for post-harvest, I have designed and installed hundreds of coffee processing plants in more than 25 countries, holder of 5 invention patents approved in Colombia and claimed in other countries.