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Clarissa Van Heerden

Member, CIMMYT Board of Trustees CIMMYT AFRC Chair

Audit, finance, and risk professional with seventeen years of senior management and advisory experience working for the UN, big 4 firms, and international organizations.

CGIAR Audit Finance and Risk Committee Chairperson. Chief Risk Officer at the IOM – UN Migration, based in Geneva, Clarissa is responsible for the development and implementation of the global risk management strategy, policy, standards, and guidelines and is a member of the senior management team implementing a comprehensive internal governance and business transformation, and of the Treasury Risk Management Committee.