Gregorio Velasco Gil is the coordinator of the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub. He is an agricultural engineer with 20 years of working experience in livestock production, animal genetic resources, and water and food security. He has implemented and coordinated field projects in Spain, Venezuela, Algeria, Egypt and various countries in West Africa. Not only has Gregorio worked with pastoralist communities in West Africa, but he also grew up in a pastoralist family in Spain.