Hilde Koper-Limbourg is the Deputy Director General, Corporate Services.

Hilde obtained a BSc in Tropical Agriculture from the International Agricultural College, Deventer, The Netherlands, in 1987 and an MSc in Human Resource Development from the University of Stirling, Scotland, in 2000. She started work in the tropics for the West African Dwarf Goat Project, a research project of the University of Wageningen at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

After that she worked for the Netherlands Government in a Livestock Development Project in Mongu, Zambia, and for FAO in the Caribbean Amblyomma Programme, based in St. Kitts and Barbados. After her MSc she worked as a project officer for the Lancashire – Gulu Link in the UK, a community-based charity that exists to promote mutually beneficial links between the people of Lancashire (UK) and Gulu (Northern Uganda), before coming back to Nigeria.

Back in Nigeria in 2006, she started working as a short-term consultant in IITA and ILRI projects in livestock production. Between 2008 and 2016 she worked for the ‘Contract and Grants/ Project Administration’ IITA team, from starting as a consultant, to leading the team from 2011. She was hired in her current position as DDG-CS from October 2016.