Florent Tomatis

Florent Tomatis

Tomatis, Florent joined the FAO Investment Centre in 2019 as a urban food distribution and markets expert. His main areas of expertise include value chains analysis; agribusiness investments design and management; market infrastructure; agrologistics and urban food distribution systems. Prior to joining FAO, he worked in the main European wholesale food markets in France and Italy (Rungis market and Centro Agroalimentare di Roma) as manager of international projects, providing technical assistance to local and national authorities to develop agri-food platforms in Europe, West Africa, Maghreb and Balkans. He participated in the works of the World Union of Wholesale Markets Board of Directors for five years. Since 2019, he has supported the FAO Investment Centre’s work with the World Bank on investments in the agri-food sector in Central Asia, Balkans, West and North Africa, in particular the development of agricultural markets network in Morocco, Ivory Coast, Jordan and North Macedonia. He leads the FAO/EBRD COVID-19 package sub-component “Supporting the evolution of urban food distribution systems”. He is the technical team leader of the FAO CFI global study on wholesale food markets, “Upgrading wholesale food markets for food system resilience in the 21st century”. Florent holds a Master’s degree in political sciences and public affairs from Institut des Sciences Politiques of Paris (Sciences Po Paris), and a Master’s degree in business management from l’ École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris (HEC Paris).