Marc Schut is a senior innovation portfolio management advisor and scientist with CGIAR and Wageningen University, based in Kenya. In this role he co-leads the redesign and development of CGIAR’s innovation, delivery, and scaling infrastructure, including the new CGIAR innovation portfolio management systems.
He led multi-cultural and inter-disciplinary innovation and scaling teams and managed multi-country, multi-partner, donor-funded programs. Marc mobilized more than USD 20M of funding, has published 50 scientific publications, and has solid experience in financial and human resources management, vision, and partnership development as CGIAR-centre country representative.
Marc has 15 years of experience in low- and middle-income countries and built a strong professional reputation within impact investor, research, and development networks. Marc is known for his inclusive leadership style and has a track record in talent development and creating a safe working environment for staff of all age, background, and gender.
Kenya
Marc Schut
Senior Advisor and Scientist
CGIAR and Wageningen University
Posted on 13/01/2025
Dear colleagues,
Great to connect here and good to see the engagement from various corners of the scaling community. My name is Marc Schut and I work as senior innovation portfolio management advisor with CGIAR. I am also affiliated to Wageningen University as senior innovation and scaling scientist. Happy to see that some of our work is in your recommended reading list :-)
For the past 10 years, we've been contributing to put scaling on the agenda in CGIAR and beyond. This resulted from a lack of realism of what responsible scaling is, and what it takes to achieve impact at scale. A key instrument is the Scaling Readiness approach that supports innovation teams in profiling their innovation, design and assess context-specific innovation bundles and packages, and co-create scaling strategies to overcome key bottlenecks for scaling.
Beyond Scaling Readiness, we've been trying to advance practice and science of scaling in various ways, including:
Our team is very interested in expanding the work and learning from others so please do reach out and engage us in exchanges and cross-learning!