Ylva Hillbur is Pro vice-chancellor with responsibility for international relations and Agenda 2030, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, since 2017. From 2012 to 2017 she held the position of Deputy Director General, research for development, at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA. IITA, one of the CGIAR institutes, has its headquarters in Nigeria and implements its research for development agenda across sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining IITA, Ylva Hillbur worked for almost 20 years at SLU, where her research on insect chemical ecology was focused primarily on applications in environmentally sustainable plant protection. During 2006-2012 she was heading the Department of Plant protection biology at SLU. She obtained her PhD at SLU in 2001 and was appointed associate professor in 2012 and has also been appointed adjunct associate professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She is member of several national and international boards and steering committees.