Djalal Ademonla Arinloye is a Marketing Scientist at the World Agro-forestry Center (ICRAF), based in Bamako, Mali. Djalal is investigating markets, value chains and institutions in the Sahel Node (Mali, Niger, Burkina-Faso, Sierra Leone and Guinea), and is also the the Gender Focal  Point for the Dryland Systems in the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas. He holds a PhD in Management Studies and Business Administration from Wageningen University, the  Netherlands.

His focus is on value chain analysis and development, gender  equity and governance issues, multi-stakeholder innovations platforms, agroforestry innovation scaling up and out, and public-private-partnership  (PPP). He is the Manager of the USAID / Feed-The-Future Program on upscaling  agroforestry technologies and PPP development in Mali.