Mr. Sumpsi is the Director of the Research Center for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM) and a Professor Emeritus of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) of the UN Committee on World Food Security. He previously served as President of the Andalusian Institute for Agrarian Reform (IARA); Director of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences of UPM; Director of the Spanish Journal of Agricultural Economics; and Vice-President and President of the Spanish Association of Agricultural Economics (AEEA). He also served as Deputy Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 2007 to 2011.
