Vivianne Goetz

Vivianne holds a BSc in Global Agriculture and Food Security from the University of Edinburgh. Her interest in sustainable commodity supply chains stems from her dissertation, where she explored the power dynamics within the Swiss-Ghana Cocoa Value Chain utilising a qualitative approach to understand how actors gain, maintain and control access to different benefits. Prior to joining Proforest, Vivianne worked as a Commercial Agriculture Graduate at Arla Foods UK, a European dairy cooperative. In this role she worked on customer agriculture accounts and supported with the management of sustainability initiatives within the organic farmer group.

Vivianne has also undertaken work experience at a vertical farming start-up in Switzerland and a genetic data modelling placement at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. Before University, she volunteered as an English Teaching Assistant in Western Mongolia.