Jennifer Kelly: Senior Research Innovation Broker

Jennifer is a Senior Innovation Broker with CSIRO Agriculture and Food in Australia. She works in the Catalysing Innovation and Impact team to design and experiment with different agriculture innovation processes, policies and practices for enhanced impact.

Jennifer’s work focuses on brokering opportunities that explore how agri-food systems innovation research can be applied with partners in Australia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and East Africa to progress strategies and practices that accelerate and scale the impact of agricultural research.

She is an accredited Partnership Broker with expertise in innovation systems, capacity building and program planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning. Recently Jennifer has been working on projects that explore the conditions and enablers of transformational innovation in agri-food systems and business-led innovation.

Jennifer has held positions in Local Governments in Australia, United Nations Women in Timor Leste and the Australian Government collaborative partnership titled Food Systems Innovation.

Follow Jennifer’s research on ResearchGate.

Contact Jennifer: Jennifer.Kelly@csiro.au