Emily Farr is Oxfam’s Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods (EFSVL) Advisor, providing technical leadership at the global level.
She has worked for almost 20 years to influence global policy and practice in food security and livelihoods and as part of humanitarian responses to food crises and other emergencies across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Emily’s areas of focus have included food security analysis, program quality, gender, and monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) in cash-based programs and in other types of EFSVL response modalities.
Emily has represented Oxfam and served in various functions within the global food security community, including as Chair of the IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) Global Steering Committee, a member of the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) Steering Committee, a member of the Global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) Strategic Advisory Group (SAG), and as a member of the World Bank Famine Action Mechanism (FAM) technical working group. Emily has an M.S. in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from Tufts University and a B.S. in Geography from Penn State.