Speakers
Speakers and Partners
Meet Our Speakers
Session Plenary Speakers
Dr Sandra Milach
Chief Scientist, CGIAR
Dr Cargelle Masso
Outreach, Engagement and Communication Lead, ILRI
Dr Evelyn Lusenaka
Director, Center of Excellence for Seed Systems Africa, AGRA
Dr Nicoline de Haan
Director of the CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion Accelerator
Keynote Speakers
Prof Rajeev Varshney
Director, Centre for Crop-Food Innovation, Murdoch University
Dr BM Prasanna
Managing Director, Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA)-CIMMYT, Regional Director for CIMMYT- Asia
Prof B. S Das
Professor Agricultural and Food Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
Dr Santiago Lopez-Ridaura
Senior Researcher, CIMMYT
Prof Pradeep Singh
Project Director, UBA, IIT, Delhi
Dr Usha Zehr
Executive Director, Mahyco
Dr Kevin Pixley
Director, Dryland Crops Program at CIMMYT
Dr AK Singh
Former Director & Vice Chancellor ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Prof Vidya Vemireddy
Professor and Faculty Member, IIM-Ahmedabad
Lead Speakers
Dr Sarada Krishnan
Director of Science & Programs, Global Crop Diversity Trust
Dr Christian Werner
Quantitative Geneticist, CIMMYT
Dr N Ravisankar
Project Coordinator, AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research
Dr Vishnuvardhan Reddy
AoW3 Lead – Inclusive Delivery, Breeding for Tomorrow Science Program, CGIAR
Dr Manish Patel
Executive Director of INCOTEC India Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Dr Deepa Joshi
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Specialist, IMWI