Prof. Irene S. Egyir is an Agricultural Economist with 30 years’ experience, teaching and engaging in research and consultancies in resource use, gender and policy evaluation at the University of Ghana. She obtained a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ghana in 2003 and has since explored what other countries discuss on the subject. Irene has travelled widely to all the continents to attend conferences to deliver or listen to other colleagues. She has built a strong background in micro-finance practice having led a development NGO, Multi-Features and Capacity-enhancing Services (MFCS) to study finance access attitudes of small entrepreneurs for over a decade. She is an Associate Professor and the immediate past Head, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana. She sells brown rice as a past time and her hobbies are swimming and dancing to good music..