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Meet Our Speakers
Visionary Speakers
Dr RS Paroda
Former Secretary, DARE and DG, ICAR and Founder Chairman, TAAS
Dr Ismahane Elouafi
Executive Managing Director, CGIAR
Dr Panjab Singh
Former Secretary-DARE & DG ICAR, Govt. of India
Session Opening Speakers
Dr Sandra Milach
Chief Scientist, CGIAR
Dr Cargelle Masso
Outreach, Engagement and Communication Lead, ILRI
Dr Pramod Kumar Joshi
Former Director - South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute
Dr Bruno Gerard
Professor, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
Dr Francis Mwatuni
Lead- Seed Systems Analysis and Knowledge Resources CESSA|AGRA
Dr Nicoline de Haan
Director of the CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion Accelerator
Keynote Speakers
Dr Justify Shava
Director, SADC Plant Genetic Resources
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
Dr Smita Sirohi
ICAR National Professor, NIAEPR
Dr N Ravi Shankar
Project Coordinator, AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research
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
Dr. Augusto Becerra
DDG-R, ICARDA, Rabat, Morocco
Dr Charles Kleinermann
Leader, CGIAR Capacity Sharing Accelerator
Prof Vidya Vemireddy
Professor and Faculty Member, IIM-Ahmedabad
Dr Samapti Guha
Professor, CSE, SMLS, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Dr Mahesh Gathala
Head, Country Representative- CIMMYT
Dr S.K. Singh
Dean, Institute of Ag Science, BHU
Dr Nitya Rao
Professor, Gender and Development, University of East Anglia
Dr J.V.N.S. Prasad
PC-AICRP-DA, ICAR-CRIDA
Dr Ramesh Singh
RPD – Resilient Farming Systems (RFS)
Dr Shalander Kumar
Principal Scientist - Socioeconomist Markets, Institutions and Policies
Lead Speakers
Dr Sarada Krishnan
Director of Science & Programs, Global Crop Diversity Trust
Dr Christian Werner
Quantitative Geneticist, CIMMYT
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
Dr Pradnya Paithankar
Head of Resilience, CC, DRR, World Food Programme
Dr Seema Bathla
Professor, CCSRD, School of Social Sciences, JNU
Prof Ashwini Chhatre
Professor, Public Policy, ISB, Hyderabad
Prof Bhimanagouda Patil
Professor and Director, VFIC, Texas A&M University
Dr VK Singh
Director, ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
Dr Shakir Ali
Director, ICAR-IISWC, Dehradun
Dr RS Yadav
Head, NRM, ICAR-IISWC
Dr. Prashant S. Bodake
Director of Research, MPKV
Dr. Anup Das
Director, ICAR- RCNR