Alicia is an agricultural economist in the RaboResearch Data Science Team based in Utrecht. Her work covers organizing the advanced analytics platforms, building algorithms, data engineering, and up-skilling and mentoring the analytics team to support all the Food and Agri sectors, from Farm Inputs to Consumer Foods.

Prior to working at Rabobank, Alicia worked for the United Nations FAO focussing on losses along the food supply chain, the estimation model for losses, and developing the methodological and measurement aspects of the Sustainable Development Goal 12.3.1.a on Food Losses - publishing the work in the 2019 State of Food and Agriculture and in Nature Sustainability. In addition to being passionate about finding technical solutions to problems and improving economic forecasting and modelling, she has been developing research and policy, and supporting donor initiatives in the areas of market creation, agricultural production, supply chain and energy issues around the globe for the last decade. Alicia has worked as a consultant for several governments and donor agencies, and has worked closely with senior stakeholders, decision makers, and C-suite executives in western and eastern Europe, Africa and the US to convert analytical results into tangible solutions.

Alicia was a Fulbright Scholar to Kosovo in 2014 and a USDA National Needs Fellow in Alternative Energies. Alicia received her PhD in Agricultural Economics in 2013 from Purdue University.