Travis J. Lybbert is a Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Agricultural & Resource Economics Department working on topics in applied microeconomics ranging from poverty dynamics, hope and aspirations, and nutrition to digital financial inclusion, agricultural technology adoption, and innovation policy. Collaborating with researchers, students, NGOs, governments, and private firms, he has lived and worked in India, Haiti, and throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and Europe. He has held visiting researcher appointments at the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organization, at the Economics and Statistics Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and at universities in Ghana, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands. He served as Co-Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and was a Fulbright Scholar in Morocco before earning his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Cornell University. He currently serves as Chair of the Standing Panel for Impact Assessment of the CGIAR and is an Affiliate of J-PAL and the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley.