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Fazle Hasan Abed
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is the founder of BRAC and the 2015 World Food Prize Laureate.
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Benjamin Kwasi Addom
Benjamin Kwasi Addom is Adviser on Agriculture & Fisheries Trade Policy for the Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda.
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Akinwumi Adesina
Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina is the the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate.
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Shweta Adhikari
Shweta Adhikari is a student at the Agriculture and Forestry University in Nepal.
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Mohamed Aheeyar
Mohamed Aheeyar is a researcher with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
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Ebunoluwa Ijeoma Ajobiewe
Ebunoluwa Ijeoma Ajobiewe is an Ambassador for the NextGen Ag Impact Network (NGIN) and advocate for youth in agriculture.
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Leila Al-Hamoodah
Leila Al-Hamoodah is formerly from the big data company aWhere, Inc.
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Fadhel Alansari
Fadhel Alansari is the the General Manager of Manufacturing at Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company.
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Barrett Alexander
Barrett Alexander is former Program Manager for Food Security and Livelihoods at World Vision.
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Debisi Araba
Dr Debisi Araba is Managing Director of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) and Malabo Montpellier Panel Member.
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Tom Arnold
Tom Arnold is Global Panel Member and Chair, EU Commission Task Force Rural Africa (TRFA).
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Nick Austin
Nick Austin is Agricultural Development Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Hakan Bahceci
Hakan Bahceci is CEO of Hakan Foods and Former Global Pulse Confederation President.
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Soumya Balasubramanya
Dr. Soumya Balasubramanya is a Senior Researcher in Environment and Development Economics at the International Water Management Institute.
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Kasey Bamberger
Kasey Bamberger is third generation owner of Bryant Agricultural Enterprise.
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Arun Baral
Arun Baral. is CEO of HarvestPlus – CGIAR’s flagship programme on staple crop biofortification.
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Jim Barnhart
Dr. Jim Barnhart is Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Melissa Benn
Melissa Benn is a former manager with Chemonics’ Agriculture and Food Security Practice.
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Tim Benton
Professor Tim Benton is Dean of Strategic Research at Leeds University and former UK Global Food Security Champion.
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Leighona Bernstein
Leighona Bernstein is former Communications Manager at CropLife International.
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Catherine Bertini
Catherine Bertini is distinguished fellow of Global Food and Agriculture at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and professor of public administration and international affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
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Carla Mayara Borges
Carla Mayara Borges is a third-generation grain farmer from the Mid-West of Brazil.
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Jerome Bossuet
Jerome Bossuet is a communications specialist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
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Howarth Bouis
Howarth Bouis is the Founding Director of HarvestPlus and World Food Prize Laureate.
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Lynn Brown
Lynn Brown is Director Policy, Strategy, and the Africa Region at HarvestPlus.
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Howard G. Buffett
Howard G. Buffett is Chairman and CEO of the Howard Buffett Foundation.
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Oliver Camp
Oliver Camp is an innovation specialist focused on nutrition, health, wellness, and sustainability.
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Alessandro Caprini
Alessandro Caprini is a Junior Consultant at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
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Sue Carlson
Sue Carlson is Chair of the Women’s Committee of the World Farmers’ Organisation.
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Keri Carstens
Keri Carstens is the former Global Regulatory Lead – Seed Applied Technologies & Biologicals at Corteva Agriscience.
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Michael R. Carter
Professor Michael R. Carter is the founding director of the Resilience+ Innovation Facility.
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Ranveer Chandra
Ranveer Chandra is formerly the Chief Scientist at Azure Global, Microsoft.
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Erik Chavez
Erik is a research fellow at the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at the Finance Department of Imperial College Business School.
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Mona S. Chaya
Dr. Mona S. Chaya is Deputy Strategic Programme Leader for Sustainable Agriculture at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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David A. Ramírez Collantes
Dr. David A. Ramírez Collantes is a nominee for the Louis Malassis Scientific Prize for Young Promising Scientist.
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Liam Condon
Liam Condon is member of the Board of Management for Bayer AG and President of the Crop Science Division.
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Gordon Conway
Sir Gordon Richard Conway was a British agricultural ecologist, who served as the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Royal Geographical Society.
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Didier Coulomb
Didier Coulomb is Director General of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR).
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Sheryl Cowan
Sheryl Cowan is Vice President of Programs at Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA).
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Morgane Danielou
Morgane Danielou is formerly of the Secretariat of the Private Sector Mechanism to the UN Committee on World Food Security.
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Kristin Davis
Kristin Davis is Executive Secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS).
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Liza Debevec
Liza Debevec is Senior Gender and Water Specialist at the Global Water Partnership and former Senior Social Scientist at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
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Kathrin Demmler
Kathrin Demmler is a former Research Associate at Imperial College London and Malabo Montpellier Panel.
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Kidanie Dessalegn
Kidanie Dessalegn is Team Leader at Self Help Africa’s Livestock Market Development (LMD) Project.
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Joe DeVries
Dr. Joe DeVries is Vice President of Programmes at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
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Giulia Di Tommaso
Giulia Di Tommaso is former President and CEO of CropLife International.
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Tenin Fatimata Dicko
Tenin Fatimata Dicko is a Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank.
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David Donoghue
Ambassador David Donoghue is the former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations.
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Ruben G. Echeverría
Ruben Echeverría is director general of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
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Karim El Aynaoui
Dr. Karim El Aynaoui is the Managing Director of Policy Center for the New South and member of the Malabo Montpellier Panel.
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Alexis Ellicott
Alexis Ellicott is CNFA Chief of Party on the USAID/Agro-Inputs Project.
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Jess Fanzo
Dr. Jessica Fanzo is a Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Ethics and Global Food & Agriculture at Johns Hopkins University.
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Farming First
Farming First is the leading source for the latest insights, news and case studies on agricultural innovation for development.
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Robb Fraley
Robb Fraley is Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto and a winner of the 2013 World Food Prize.
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Jean Francois
Jean Francois is Chief of Party of CNFA’s West Africa Cashew Project (PRO-Cashew).
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Emile Frison
Dr. Emile Frison is a nominee for the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Outstanding Career in Agriculture.
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Fernando Rafael Funes Monzote
Dr. Fernando Rafael Funes Monzote is a nominee for the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Outstanding Career in Agriculture.
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David Galaty
David Galaty is Director of Research and Innovation in East Africa at TechnoServe, a Farming First supporter.
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Jane Gicheha
Jane Gicheha is a former Researcher with The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
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Gigi Gatti
Gigi Gatti is Director of Technology for Development at Grameen Foundation.
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Arianna Giuliodori
Arianna Giuliodori is Secretary General of the World Farmers’ Organization.
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Katrin Glatzel
Katrin Glatzel is the Director of Policy Innovation at Akademiya2063 and program head of The Malabo Montpellier Panel.
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Steve Godfrey
Steve Godfrey is Director of Policy and External Relations at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
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Juan Gonzalez-Valero
Juan Gonzalez-Valero is Head of Public Policy and Sustainability at Syngenta.
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Heidi Graves
Heidi Graves is Communications Officer for Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA).
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Simon Groot
Simon Groot is the 2019 World Food Prize Laureate and founder of East-West Seed.
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Peter Gubbels
Peter Gubbels is the Founder and Director of Action Learning and Advocacy for West Africa at Groundswell International.
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Stephanie Hanson
Stephanie Hanson is senior vice president of policy and partnerships at One Acre Fund
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Charlotte Hebebrand
Charlotte Hebebrand is the Director of Communications and Public Affairs at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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Deborah Hellums
Dr. Deborah Hellums is Chief Program Officer at the International Fertilizer Development Center.
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Sheryl Hendriks
Sheryl Hendriks is Director of the Institute for Food Nutrition and Well-being at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
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J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera
J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera Associate Research Scientist at Yale School of the Environment and a former Columbia Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
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Nawsheen Hosenally
Nawsheen Hosenally is a freelance social media consultant specialised in agriculture issues.
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Albin Hubscher
Albin Hubscher is the former President and CEO of the International Fertilizer Development Center.
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Damian Ihedioha
Dr. Damian Ihedioha is chief agro-industry officer the African Development Bank.
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Alice Ingabire
Alice Ingabire is Access to Seeds Index Lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance.
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Toby Johnson
Toby Johnson is a former communications team leader at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).
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Adrian Johnston
Adrian Johnston is Former Vice President of the International Plant Nutrition Institute in Africa and Asia.
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Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones is an Associate Scientist at The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and part of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
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Emily Karol
Emily Karol is the Director of Fund Development at iDE (International Development Enterprises).
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Ed Keturakis
Ed Keturakis is Vice President of Program Development at Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) and a New Mexico farmer.
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Zeyaur Khan
Professor Zeyaur Khan is a nominee for the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Outstanding Career in Agriculture.
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Iris Krebber
Iris Krebber is Co-Chair of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP).
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Rossmery Daza La Plata
Rossmery Daza La Plata is a Production Manager at South East Pacific Farm SAC.
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Rattan Lal
Rattan Lal is Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University.
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Jean Lam
Jean Lam is a member of the National Farmers’ Union and works a no-till operation in Oklahoma, US.
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Claire Lanaud
Dr. Claire Lanaud is a nominee for the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Distinguished Scientist.
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Lysiane Lefebvre
Lysiane Lefebvre is Policy Advisor and Project Manager at the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate
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Jan W. Low
Dr Jan W. Low is a nominee for the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Distinguished Scientist.
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Racine Ly
Dr. Racine Ly is the Director of the Department of Data Management, Digital Products, and Technolog at AKADEMIYA2063.
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Donald MacKenzie
Dr. Donald MacKenzie is the executive director of the Institute for International Crop Improvement (IICI) at the Danforth Center.
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Monica Maigari
Monica Maigari is a Nigerian farmer who was named a “Female Food Hero” by Oxfam. Monica spoke at the session “Food Security in Crisis” at the 2016 Borlaug Dialogue in Iowa.
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Lindiwe Majele Sibanda
Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda is Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery at AGRA.
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Harinder Makkar
Professor Harinder Makkar formerly worked at the Animal Production and Health Division of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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Kedar Mankad
Kedar Mankad is Policy Officer for Agriculture and Inclusive Growth at ONE International.
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Caroline Manus
Caroline Manus is a Food Scientist with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
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Tshepiso Marumo
Tshepiso Marumo is a young entrepreneur from Botswana, who has been keeping bees and producing honey based products since 2007.
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Anastasia Mbatia
Anastasia Mbatia is Senior Technical Manager for Agriculture, Farm Africa and author of Quality Declared Seed.
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Bonnie McClafferty
Bonnie McClafferty is Director of Agriculture for Nutrition at GAIN.
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Brian McNamara
Brian McNamara is an Markets, Trade, and Institutions (MTI) Unit Program Coordinator
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Andrew Medlicott
Andrew Medlicott is the Executive Vice President of Latin America & Caribbean at Fintrac.
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Caryl Merten
Carly Merten is an associate in Chemonics’ West and Central Africa and Haiti Division.
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Bahkita Mkwingwiri
Bahkita Mkwingwiri from Balaka District in Malawi works with Gorta-Self Help Africa as a village-based farm adviser to lead farmers in Bisani village.
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Talentus Mthunzi
Talentus Mthunzi is a monitoring and Evaluation specialist in the food, agriculture and natural resources sector.
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Katharina Münster
Katharina Münster is Junior Specialist for Communications and Digital Innovation at the Inclusive Business Action Network.
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Caroline Mwongera
Caroline Mwongera is a Food security, Climate change and Environment specialist at The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture.
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Reema Nanavaty
Reema Nanavaty is Director of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA).
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Andrew Natsios
Andrew Natsios is former Administrator of USAID and current Advisory Committee Chair of HarvestPlus.
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Sylvia Natukunda
Sylvia Natukunda is business and partnership manager at AgriProFocus.
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Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba
Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba is the Director of Policy Research and Analysis at Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN).
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Thomas Ngotho
Thomas Ngotho is a Senior Consultant for Crops and Agronomy at Business for Development.
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Nachilala Nkombo
Nachilala Nkombo is the Country Director of WWF, Zambia and a member of the Malabo Montpellier Panel.
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Elizabeth Nsimadala
Elizabeth Nsimadala is Regional President of East African Farmers Federation.
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Apollos Nwafor
Dr Apollos Nwafor is Vice President for Policy and State Capability at AGRA.
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Kanayo F. Nwanze
Kanayo F. Nwanze is President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
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Patrick Nyaga
Patrick Nyaga is Project Coordinator for Regenerative Agriculture at Farm Africa.
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Awino Nyamolo
Awino Nyamolo is a communications specialist and former communications coordinator at TechnoServe.
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Judy Nyawira
Judy Nyawira is the production manager for the Kenyan TV show “Shamba Shape Up”.
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Doug O’Brien
Doug O’Brien is Vice President of Programs at the Global FoodBanking Network.
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Laura Glenn O’Carroll
Laura Glenn O’Carroll is a Research Associate at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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Allan Ochieng Odera
Allan Ochieng Odera is Resilience Coordinator for Danish Refugee Council (DRC).
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Dorine Odongo
Dorine Odongo is the Senior Communications Manager at African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD).
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Yvette Ondachi
Yvette Ondachi is the founder of Ojay Greene, a Kenyan agribusiness that connects rural farmers to urban markets.
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Courtney Paisley
Courtney Paisley is the Director of Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD).
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Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Rajul Pandya-Lorch is chief of staff in the Director General’s Office of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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Amath Pathé Sene
Amath Pathé Sene is the Managing Director of Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF).
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Valeria Piñeiro
Valeria Piñeiro is Acting Head of IFPRI’s Latin American Region and Senior Research Coordinator with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions (MTI) Unit
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Keith Polo
Keith Polo is Managing Director of Tukula Farming Company, and Country Director at the Clinton Development Initiative.
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B.M. Prasanna
B.M. Prasanna is the Director of the Global Maize Program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT).
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B.M. Prasanna
B.M. Prasanna is Director of the Global Maize Program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT).
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Rhiannan Price
Rhiannan Price is Senior Manager of Digital Globe’s ‘Seeing a Better World’ program.
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Kenneth M. Quinn
Kenneth M. Quinn is the former president of the World Food Prize Foundation.
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Michael Quinn
Dr. Michael Quinn is Lead of the CGIAR Accelerated Breeding Initiative and Director of the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform.
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Jean-Pierre Rennaud
Jean-Pierre Rennaud is General Delegate & Cofounder at Livelihoods Fund.
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Matthew Reynolds
Matthew Reynolds is a Distinguished Scientist and Head of Wheat Physiology at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.
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David Roquetti
David Roquetti is Executive Director of Associação Nacional Para Difusão de Adubos (ANDA) in Brazil.
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Jeffrey L. Rosichan
Jeffrey Rosichan is the Director of Crops of the Future Collaborative at the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.
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Kazuki Saito
Dr. Kazuki Saito is a nominee for the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Young Promising Scientist.
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Alexander Sakal is Chief Business Development Officer at EOS Crop Monitoring.
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Pedro Sanchez
Pedro Sanchez is Research Professor of Tropical Soils at the University of Florida Soil & Water Sciences Department.
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Natasha Santos
Natasha Santos is Vice President, Head of Global Stakeholders Affairs and Strategic Partnerships at Bayer Crop Science.
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Lizzie Sayer
Lizzie Sayer is former Senior Communications Officer at the International Science Council.
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Dirk Schattschneider
Dirk Schattschneider is Co-Chair of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP).
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Guido Schmidt-Traub
Guido Schmidt-Traub us Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).
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Puvan Selvanathan
Puvan Selvanathan is former Head of Food and Agriculture at the UN Global Compact and current Head at the Office of the International Trade Centre.
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Matt Shakhovskoy
Matt Shakhovskoy is Executive Director of the Initiative for Smallholder Finance.
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Sok Sotha
Sok Sotha is Managing Director of Cambodian Farmer Federation Association of Agriculture Producers (CFAP).
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Chase Sova
Dr Chase Sova is Senior Director of Public Policy and Research at World Food Programme USA.
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Marc Steen
Marc Steen is CNFA’s Chief of Party of the Maximizing Opportunities in Cocoa Activity (MOCA).
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Will Surman
Will Surman is Director of Communications for Crop Protection at CropLife International.
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David Suttie
David Suttie is former Global Engagement Specialist at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
Dr. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is the 1987 World Food Prize winner.
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Victor Taleon
Victor Taleon works on biofortified crops at the research centre HarvestPlus.
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Shirley Tarawali
Shirley Tarawali is Assistant Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
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Gustavo Teixeira
Gustavo Teixeira is Module Lead at the Breeding Operations and Phenotyping module for CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB).
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Fethi Thabet
Fethi Thabet is Telecommunications Engineer, City Councillor for Ariana, Tunisia, and Theme Leader for Engineering and Sustainable Agriculture at the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO).
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Deepa Thiagarajan
Deepa Thiagarajan is the Director of the Global Food Systems and Value Chains Programs at Michigan State University.
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Shakuntala Thilsted
Shakuntala Thilsted is the Director for Nutrition, Health and Food Security Impact Area Platform, CGIAR.
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Sandy Thomas
Professor Sandy Thomas OBE is the Director of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition.
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Errington J. Thompson
Errington J. Thompson is President of the Agriculture Alliance of the Caribbean (AACARI).
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Ivan Tupajic
Ivan Tupajic is an agronomist who works at a plant breeding station in Serbia.
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Marc Van Ameringen
Marc Van Ameringen is the former Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
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Hervé Vanderschuren
Professor Hervé Vanderschuren is affiliated with ETH Zurich, the University of Liège, Gembloux and Agro-Bio Tech and was nominated for the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Young Promising Scientist.
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Gerda Verburg
Gerda Verburg is Former Coordinator Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement) and the Former Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries of Netherlands.
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Víctor Villalobos
Dr. Víctor Villalobos is the former Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture.
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Chiara Villani
Chiara Villani is Agrobiodiversity Index Project Coordinator at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
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Joachim von Braun
Dr Joachim von Braun is Professor for Economic and Technological Change at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn.
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Beatrice Wakwabubi
Beatrice Wakwabubi is a Kenyan farmer with Farm Africa’s Growing Futures initiative.
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Elizabeth Wathuti
Elizabeth Wathuti is the Lead Coordinator of the African Youth Climate Assembly (AYCA) and Africa Climate Summit (ACS) Youth Engagement.
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Thomas Westhoff
Thomas Westhoff served as president of International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences (IAAS) 22/23 and is a NextGen Ag Impact Network (NGIN) Ambassador.
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James Wong
James Wong is an ethnobotanist and presenter of BBC’s ‘Follow the Food’ series.
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Sivan Yosef
Sivan Yosef is Sivan Yosef is a Senior Program Manager in the Director General’s Office of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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Leanne Zeppenfeldt
Leanne Zeppenfeldt is Knowledge & Partnerships Officer at Clim-Eat.
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Shamie Zingore
Dr Shamie Zingore is Director of Research and Development at the African Plant Nutrition Institute.
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Laura Zseleczky
Laura Zseleczky is the marketing and communications manager for the Fish Innovation Lab and formerly of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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Mashiri Zvarimwa
Mashiri Zvarimwa is an Ambassador for the NextGen Ag Impact Network (NGIN) and Technical Assistance Facilitator for the Southern and Central Africa Regional Innovation Hub.
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