Wei-Li is a sustainable development professional with more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of sustainability, agrifood technology innovation and food security.
At the Global Methane Hub (GMH), she serves as senior program officer for agriculture, responsible for developing and executing a portfolio of high-impact grantmaking initiatives and multi-sector partnerships to drive GMH’s agricultural methane reduction strategy for rice, including GMH’s Rice Methane Innovation Accelerator.
Before joining GMH, she led the digital and innovation initiative of a multi-stakeholder platform in Southeast Asia that brokers partnerships between businesses, governments and nonprofits committed to harnessing digital innovations to make smallholder value chains more productive and sustainable. She also worked for the Singapore Food Agency, where she helped spearhead the development of the alternative proteins ecosystem and facilitated an enabling regulatory environment for agrifood technology companies and local farms. She began her career at the International Rescue Committee in the U.S., working in their refugee resettlement program.
Wei-Li holds a master’s degree in development studies, focused on agrarian food and environmental studies, from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a bachelor’s degree in government from Cornell University.
She is passionate about ocean health and conservation, yoga and freediving.