Avery Cohn is Senior Partner at Ode Partners, an AI and creative technology company developing products and strategies for public interest causes. At Ode, his work includes applications of AI and digital products in agriculture with leading organizations such as UN FAO. He is also Managing Director of Clay, a non-profit project increasing the planetary intelligence of AI, where he leads work on applications and benchmarking including for monitoring agriculture and methane. He is Adjunct Associate Professor at Tufts University, where he advises on the nexus of food systems, nutrition, AI, and climate.

Avery has dedicated his career to data-driven work on climate and nature, spanning academia, philanthropy, and responsible digital products. As a professor at Tufts, he led research on climate risks to tropical agriculture, resilient livestock systems, the role of deforestation in regional warming, smallholder farming and climate adaptation, and the resilience of diversified agricultural systems. During the period he helped the World Bank evaluate the impact of a project using technical assistance to promote the adoption of improved management practices in livestock systems. As Program Director for Food and Agriculture at ClimateWorks Foundation, he designed and founded the organization's food and climate program and helped conceive of and author the Global Innovation Needs Assessment for methane, a landmark analysis identifying the innovation and investment priorities needed to reduce food system methane emissions.

As Senior Advisor to the COP28 Presidency on food systems, Avery helped secure commitments from 160 countries to align food systems with climate and nature goals. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from UC Berkeley and has published over 30 scientific articles in journals including PNAS, Nature Climate Change, and Nature Communications.