IAASTD - Key Persons


Achim Steiner

Job Titles:
  • Director General, the World Conservation Union ( IUCN )

Adel El-Beltagy - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Adrienne Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Laureate Professor, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Australia

Aidan O'Driscoll

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Secretary General, Department of Agriculture and Food

Alain Derevier

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor, Research for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Armando Paredes

Job Titles:
  • Presidente, Consejo Nacional Agropecuario ( CNA )

Benny Haerlin

Job Titles:
  • Advisor, Greenpeace International

Carl Greenidge

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Rural and Technical Cooperation, Netherlands

Charlotte Johnson-Welch

Job Titles:
  • Public Health and Gender Specialist and Nata Duvvury

Denis Lucey

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Food Economics, Dept. of Food Business & Development

Doug Wholey

Job Titles:
  • Senior Technical Advisor, International Fund for Agricultural Development

Grace Akello

Job Titles:
  • Minister of State for Northern Uganda Rehabilitation

Greg Jaffe

Job Titles:
  • Director, Biotechnology Project, Center for Science in the Public Interest

Hamdallah Zedan

Job Titles:
  • Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological Diversity

Ivar Baste

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Environment Assessment Branch, UN Environment Program

Jorge Ardila Vásquez

Job Titles:
  • Director Area of Technology and Innovation, Inter - American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture ( IICA )

Judi Wakhungu

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, African Center for Technology Studies

Keming Qian

Job Titles:
  • Director General Inst. Agricultural Economics, Dept. of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science

Louise Fresco

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director General for Agriculture, FAO

Marcia Ishii-Eiteman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist

Mark Holderness

Job Titles:
  • Head Crop and Pest Management, CAB International

Mercy Karanja

Job Titles:
  • Producer Organizations

Mohamed Hassan

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Third World Academy of Sciences ( TWAS )

Momtaz Faruki Chowdhury

Job Titles:
  • Director, Agribusiness Center for Competitiveness and Enterprise Development, Bangladesh

Monica Kapiriri

Job Titles:
  • Regional Program Officer for NGO Enhancement and Rural Development, Aga Khan

Mumeka M. Wright

Job Titles:
  • Director

Philip Dobie

Job Titles:
  • Director Drylands Development Center, UN Development Program

Raymond C. Offenheiser

Job Titles:
  • President, Oxfam America

Rita Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Principal Secretary and Rural Infrastructure Commissioner, Government of Uttar Pradesh, India

Robert T. Watson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientist, the World Bank

Rodney Brown

Job Titles:
  • Deputy under Secretary of Agriculture and Hans Klemm, Director of the Office of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Textile Trade Affairs, Department of State

Sam Dryden

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Emergent Genetics

Samuel Bruce-Oliver

Job Titles:
  • NARS Senior Fellow, Global Forum for Agricultural Research Secretariat

Samuel Ochieng

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive, Consumer Information Network

Sarah Holden

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor, Research Team, DFID

Seyfu Ketema

Job Titles:
  • Executive Secretary

Steve Parry

Job Titles:
  • Sustainable Agriculture Research and Development Program Leader, Unilever

Susan Sechler

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor on Biotechnology Policy, Rockefeller Foundation

Thomas Rosswall

Job Titles:
  • Director Social Conflict and Transformation Team, International Center for Research on Women ( ICRW )

Tiina Huvio

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor, Agriculture and Rural Development

Tsakani Ngomane

Job Titles:
  • Director Agricultural Extension Services, Department of

Vo-tong Xuan

Job Titles:
  • Rector, Angiang University, Vietnam

Wim van Eck

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, World Health Organization

Zoltan Bedo

Job Titles:
  • Director, Agricultural Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences