Examine how modern insurance solutions are shifting from reactive payouts to proactive protection, supporting supply chain resilience and long-term business stability.
Explore how innovative insurance and financing mechanisms work together to reduce climate risk and unlock capital for climate-resilient and regenerative agriculture.
Edgar Aguilar co-leads UNDP Insurance and Risk Finance Facility’s work on resilient food systems as Value Chain Resilience Specialist based in Rome, Italy. Within his role, Edgar advice governments and insurers on how to combine agricultural insurance into solutions with other financing instruments such as debt and guarantees to serve millions of smallholder farmers,
Previously, Edgar worked for the International Labour Organization (ILO) at its Regional Office for Africa in Côte d’Ivoire for 10 years, where he facilitated public and private partnerships to increase access to finance to agricultural value chains. Supporting the ILO Impact Insurance Facility, Edgar has worked closely with the insurance industry, financial institutions, and value chain players developing risk management solutions for smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America in key value chains such as cocoa, coffee, tea, and cotton. Edgar holds a master’s degree in Rural Development for Southern Countries and an engineer diploma in Agriculture. He speaks Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Italian.
Peter DeSantis is Senior Vice President, leading Amazon's foundational AI models, custom silicon, and quantum computing—positioning him at the forefront of technologies shaping the future of computing. He oversees development of Amazon's most expansive AI models (Nova), custom silicon initiatives (Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro), and quantum computing efforts (Ocelot).
Throughout his career at Amazon, Peter has driven innovation at significant scale. In 2006, he led the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as its General Manager, fundamentally changing how companies build and run their infrastructure. He subsequently led the reinvention of foundational cloud services, including Elastic Block Storage, Elastic File System, Elastic Load Balancing, Networking, and Monitoring. In 2015, he spearheaded the acquisition of Annapurna Labs, Amazon's custom silicon team, enabling industry-leading price-performance and breakthrough capabilities like the Nitro System. From 2016 to 2021, Peter led AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, overseeing data centers across 38 geographic regions and 120 Availability Zones worldwide. Most recently, as SVP of AWS Utility Computing, he oversaw worldwide engineering, operations, and product management for core AWS services and custom chip design.
Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
