Pedro A. Sanchez

Pedro Antonio Sanchez San Martín (October 7, 1940 – January 12, 2026) was the director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center, senior research scholar, and director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sanchez was director general of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1991-2001, and served as co-chair of the UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. He was also professor emeritus of soil science and forestry at North Carolina State University and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.