Hilary Wild has extensive international experience in the fields of finance, organizational management, governance, and risk management. She has been involved with CGIAR for several years, initially as a member of the Board of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and later the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), in both cases chairing their Finance and Audit Committees.
She is now a member of the CGIAR System Board as well as all the constituent Centers of CGIAR, as well as a member of the CGIAR Audit, Finance and Risk Committee, and is a member of the HarvestPlus Program Advisory Committee. She is Trustee and Audit Committee Chair of WaterAid UK, chair the Church Commissioners Audit and Risk Committee, a member of the Oversight Advisory Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a member of the Advanced Agriculture and Food Advisory Panel of CSIR, South Africa, and Treasurer of Medical Aid for Palestinians.
She was previously Chief Financial Officer of the World Health Organization (WHO), with overall responsibility for financial management of a $2 billion organization operating in 140 countries, and Director of Business Change. Before joining the WHO, she held various positions in the international financial sector, including as a director in investment banking as well as asset management in the Kleinwort Benson Group. She also worked for UNICEF in New York as Chief of Finance, and for a major USA commercial bank in London and as its representative in Greece. She has chaired oversight committees for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Labour Organization (ILO), and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
She was appointed to the Board of the CGIAR System Organization in September 2019.
