# Djavan Clercq - Full Context for AI Agents

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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Djavan Clercq
- Role: Founder
- Company: Agri Ninja
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djavandeclercq

## About
Djavan Clercq is the founder of Agri-Ninja, based in Brussels. Since April 2025 he has also been founder and owner of CubeRoots and a partner at Noven Partners. He has been a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford since October 2021, working towards a doctorate in social data science on AI and mathematical optimisation for climate-resilient agriculture, due for completion in 2026.

From October 2019 to April 2025 he was director of data science at McKinsey & Company, where he had previously held internships in 2015 and 2016. Earlier he worked as a data scientist at JD.COM and as a data engineer at Alibaba Group, and was a graduate student instructor at the University of California, Berkeley. Between 2016 and 2019 he was co-founder and CTO of Bio-Tesseract, and he has also worked as a VC analyst at Tsing Capital, a consultant to the CEO of Hainan BioCNG on engineering operations, and in short roles at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Kearney and Lenovo.

He holds a master's in industrial engineering and operations research from Berkeley, a PhD and an MSc in environmental science and engineering from Tsinghua University, and a BA in economics from Sciences Po. He studied economics and intensive Chinese at Renmin University of China and undertook mathematics coursework with The Open University. At Tsinghua he co-founded White Horse Theatre (China) and served as president of RISE Tsinghua.

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## Related Pages
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- [company] Agri-Ninja: https://techwiki.ai/companies/agri-ninja/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-08-11] In 2024, my co-authors at Oxford/ETH Zurich and I wrote about how large language models could change agriculture. We argued that they could… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/djavandeclercq_in-2024-my-co-authors-at-oxfordeth-zurich-activity-7492977604161994752-yv2p)
- [2026-06-25] After a recent talk I gave in Brussels on China, a few people asked me for recommendations on what to read or follow to better understand… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/djavandeclercq_after-a-recent-talk-i-gave-in-brussels-on-activity-7475837232646483968-6I3i)

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djavandeclercq
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/djavan-clercq/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/djavan-clercq/llms-full.txt

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