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Dudley Adolph

Chief Director, Farmer Support and Development, Provincial Department of Agriculture, West Cape, South Africa

Dudley James Adolph is the Chief Director for the Programme: Farmer Support and Development at the Provincial Department of Agriculture: Western Cape and has served in this position since 2006. The FSD programme includes the following sub-programmes: Farmer Settlement, Extension and Advisory Services as well as Food Security. The purpose of the programme is to: Ensure a sustainable support mechanism for new and established farmers, including land reform beneficiaries; To leverage investment from the private sector and commodity groupings; To ensure quality extension and advice services to farmers; To facilitate access to affordable and diverse food through the delivery of agricultural projects at communal and household level; and To measure the impact of interventions as delivered by the Programme.

He has a passion to seek applicable new technology and to implement functional systems to enhance service delivery e.g. the Smart Pen and the Manstrat Extension Suite On-line systems. He was also instrumental in the development of a comprehensive Agricultural Information Management System (AIMS) which: ensures a seamless and streamlined working environment through defined workflow processes, provides a central repository to address the demand of tracking various targets e.g. agricultural production and supports controlled dissemination of information relating to progress on ongoing tasks and projects to all stakeholders and clients.

He previously was the Executive Director for Economic Facilitation Services at the Stellenbosch Municipality in the Cape Winelands District of the Western Cape and prior to that served as the Director for Economic Development Coordination in the Provincial Department of Economic Development and Tourism: Western Cape. The service delivery focus included: Black Economic Empowerment, Enterprise Development and Local Economic Development.

He is graduate of the University of the Western Cape where he obtained his BA degree, his BA Honours Degree in Geography and his Masters in Administration. Aside from several diverse training courses, he has completed studies in Marketing, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Business Law and Corporate Strategy.

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Audia Barnett

Representative to Canada, Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA)

Audia Barnett is a graduate of the University of Alberta, Canada, having completed a M.Sc. degree in Food Science. An alumnus of the University of the West Indies, with a Ph.D. in Chemistry and B.Sc. degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry, she has also served as Research Fellow at the MIGAL Galilee Technological Centre (Israel) and the Agrotechnological Research Institute (The Netherlands).
Dr. Barnett was appointed IICA Representative to Canada late 2010. Based in Ottawa, her role includes forging technical co-operation alliances between Agricultural stakeholders in Canada and Latin America and the Caribbean towards fostering sustainable and competitive agriculture in the Americas.

She was previously the Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC) in Jamaica, where she served with distinction for eight years. The SRC is the principal public sector agency responsible for undertaking, fostering and coordinating scientific research and development in Jamaica.

Dr Barnett has extensive experience in Food Science and Technology, having served as adjunct lecturer at the University of the West Indies, as well as Consultant to the Food Industry for over fifteen years. She is the past Focal Point for the Inter-Governmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Convenor of the Food Safety Subcommittee of the National Food and Nutrition Committee of Jamaica, Vice President of the Jamaica Society of Scientists and Technologists as well as Professional Member of the Institute of Food Technologists (USA). She is currently adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, in Jamaica. Her professional interests include Food Safety, Biotechnology, Natural Products, Innovation and Science Policy, areas in which she has published both peer-reviewed papers and articles for the public press.

She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Pelican Award (UWI) and Fellow, Americas 2000 Project (Rice University, USA).

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Aline Bennett

Sustainability Coordinator, Town of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC

Aline Bennett is a recent alumni of 涩里番鈥檚 Bioresource Engineering department, and currently works for the Town of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue as their Sustainability Coordinator. Her work with Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is focused on creating a community driven sustainability plan focusing on a wide range of issues including food and agriculture, water, culture, economic vitality and the natural environment.

During her time at 涩里番, Aline was involved with Engineers without Borders which catalyzed her interest in food security issues. At 涩里番 she spent four months in Ghana on a fellowship program and organized a number of events with the goal of increasing awareness around food security and poverty on campus.

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Sarah Dalle

Program Manager Africa, USC Canada

Sarah Paule Dalle has been Program Manager for USC Canada鈥檚 Seeds of Survival programs in Africa since 2008. The Seeds of Survival Program is a farmer-led conservation, enhancement and utilization program developed to improve the food, livelihood and environmental security of rural communities. Collaborating with partner organizations and rural communities in West Africa and Ethiopia, Sarah works to identify strategies to strengthen USC鈥檚 agricultural biodiversity-based programming and has contributed to developing monitoring and evaluation systems and academic collaborations to analyze the impacts of this work.

Sarah holds M.Sc and Ph.D degrees from the Biology and Plant Science departments of 涩里番 and postdoctoral experience at Wageningen University and Research Centre (the Netherlands). Her academic research has focused on biodiversity conservation, ethnobotany and land management in forest and agricultural systems of Mexico and Central America. She has authored a number of international peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as scientific dissemination pieces in both English and Spanish.

Throughout her academic and professional life, Sarah has learned to value the knowledge and experience of rural and indigenous people she has worked with. She has also worked closely with local research, academic and non-governmental organizations in Latin America and Africa, with the aim of contributing to local development processes. She believes that respectful collaboration between scientists and local people is key to stimulating place-based innovation to effectively build sustainable livelihoods.

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Renaud De Plaen

Senior Program Specialist, IDRC

Renaud De Plaen is a skilled researcher whose work cuts across critical development issues such as the environment, food security, and human health.

De Plaen joined IDRC in 2001, bringing with him extensive field experience in natural resource management and its influence on the life of rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa. With IDRC鈥檚 Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health program, De Plaen guided research on the interactions between environmental change, livelihoods, and human health. He has also studied linkages between food production systems, HIV/AIDS, and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. His work currently focuses on the impact of community-based natural resource management systems on rural populations in Latin America.

Renaud De Plaen holds a PhD in geography from Rutgers University.

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Ronald Doering

Counsel, Gowling Lafleur and Henderson, Ottawa

Ronald L. Doering is an expert on many aspects of food and agricultural law, including labelling, recalls, biotechnology regulation, plant protection and animal health. He previously served as President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and as a senior ocial with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Dr Doering is currently Counsel in the Ottawa offices of Gowling Lafleur and Henderson.

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Marco Ferroni

Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Switzerland

An expert in international agriculture and sustainability issues, Marco Ferroni joined the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture as its Executive Director in 2008, after a career in multilateral institutions and government.

Before joining the Foundation, Marco Ferroni worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank in Washington DC. As a Deputy Manager of the Sustainable Development Department of the IDB, he had responsibility for regional sector policy and technical support to the Bank鈥檚 country departments. As the Principal Officer in the Bank鈥檚 Office of Evaluation and Oversight, he directed evaluation studies that assessed the relevance, performance and results of Bank strategies and investments. As a senior advisor at the World Bank he advised on donor relations and directed work on international public goods and their role in foreign aid and international affairs. Earlier in his career, he was an economist and division chief for international economic relations in the government of Switzerland. Marco Ferroni holds a doctoral degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University.

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Jim Fyles

Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology, Professor and Chair, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, 涩里番

Jim Fyles is an ecosystem ecologist with broad interest and expertise in the ecology of forests, agro-ecosystems, and devastated lands. He was raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in ecology from the University of Victoria. He obtained his Ph.D. jointly in Soil Science and Botany at the University of Alberta in 1986, after which he did post-doctoral research in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. Since 1988, Dr. Fyles has been a professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences, where he holds the Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology. He was one of the primary developers of the 涩里番 School of Environment and has served as the Director of the School. He is the Director of the Molson Nature Reserve and the Morgan Arboretum, peri-urban conservation and research areas near the Macdonald Campus. Between 2004 and 2010, he was the Scientific Director of the Sustainable Forest Management Network Centre of Excellence, a national research network involving partners from industry, governments, Aboriginal groups and non-governmental organizations.

Dr. Fyles鈥� research interests focus on the interrelationships between human activity, organisms, soil, disturbance and climate that structure patterns of ecosystem function across multiple scales. Through his work with the SFM-NCE he has become increasingly interested in the relationships between scientific knowledge, policy and management of natural landscapes. Dr. Fyles has published over 70 articles in scientific journals and co-authored many knowledge exchange documents.

Dr. Fyles teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the global environment and ecosystem ecology. He has received the Macdonald College Award for Teaching Excellence. He has supervised 30 graduate students and 24 senior undergraduate research projects.

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Zhanyi Gao

Director, National Centre for Efficient Irrigation Technology Research, and Hon. Vice President of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, China

Dr. Zhanyi Gao (China) is the Director of the National Centre for Efficient Irrigation Technology Research attached to China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR). He has served with IWHR since 1989 and holds a Master鈥檚 Degree from the North China Water Resources and Hydropower University (1989) and a Ph.D. from IWHR (2005). He served as senior researcher and the Director of the Department of Irrigation and Drainage, IWHR from 1996 to 2009. From 2005 to 2008 he served as the Vice President of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID). Since 2003 he has served as Director, Board of Directors, Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society. Up to now he has been project leader for 21 national and 6 international collaborative projects. As an expert he attended several projects and review activities funded by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). His interested research areas include research and dissemination of water-saving technology, irrigation water management and assessment, irrigation development and food security, wastewater reuse, the effect of climate change on irrigated agriculture. Among his major publications are: Research and Innovation in Efficient Irrigation Technologies (March 2007); Integrated Wastewater Irrigation and Treatment, in Water Resources Journal (December 2003); Study on Polices for Subsidy of Water Saving in Agriculture, Water Resources Development Research (February 2006); Development of Multi Functions of Irrigation in China, in Journal of Economics of Water Resources, (January 2006); Strategy of Grain Security and Irrigation Development in China, in Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, (November, 2008).

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Daniel Gustafson

Director, FAO Liaison Office for North America

Daniel Gustafson is the Director of the FAO Liaison Office for North America. He has been with FAO since 1994, first in Mozambique as an advisor within the Ministry of Agriculture and then headed FAO鈥檚 country offices in Nairobi, Kenya and New Delhi, India. He has a BS and MSc degree from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining FAO, he was the Program Director for Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland鈥檚 International Development Management Center, and from 1977 to 1988 worked in Brazil for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

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David Hallam

Director, Trade and Markets Division, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome, Italy

David Hallam is Director of the Trade and Markets Division at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome where he leads work on trade and development issues and food and agricultural trade policy. He joined FAO in 1999. He was previously on the Faculty of the University of Reading specialising in analysis of agricultural commodity markets and policy and was also Director of the Centre for Agricultural Strategy in the University. He has written numerous books and articles on agricultural commodity markets, trade and development and was Editor of the Journal of Agricultural Economics. His recent work has focused on the analysis of food price volatility and on foreign direct investment in developing country agriculture. Before moving permanently to FAO he was a regular consultant for FAO, OECD, World Bank, governments and the private sector on international food markets and policy. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Reading.

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Douglas Hedley

Executive Director, Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Hedley is a private consultant following many years in the Canadian Public Service in Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, retiring in 2004 as Assistant Deputy Minister. He also serves as Executive Director for the Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, (CFAVM), with representatives from the five veterinary medicine and eight agricultural faculties in Canadian Universities. He continues to work on farm income issues in Canada and the USA, has provided training on governance issues in China, and explores farm marketing and processing approaches within Canada and North America. He was a member of a study team for the US National Academy of Sciences in Washington, with a final report in June 2008. He also coaches mid-career Public Servants in management and leadership. He has worked in several countries around the world, USA, South America, Africa and South East Asia with The Rockefeller Foundation and Winrock International. His overseas work involved agricultural economic development, development of graduate-level university training in economics, university development, and policy and program development and advice at Ministerial level. He holds Masters and Ph.D degrees in agricultural economics from Michigan State University and a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in agricultural economics and business administration from the University of Guelph.

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Spencer Henson

Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Guelph

Spencer Henson is a Professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph, Canada and Professorial Fellow, in the Globalisation Team, Institute of Development Studies, UK. He has undertaken research in over 50 countries relating to the economics of food safety and quality, notably as this relates to developing countries. Key themes in his research include the impacts of food safety and quality regulations and standards on developing country agri-food trade, and on the inclusion of small-scale producers and other vulnerable groups in export value chains and their consequences for poverty. Through his research, Spencer Henson has worked with a range of international organisations including FAO, WHO, WTO, OECD, World Bank, UNIDO and the World Trade Centre.

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Murray Isman

Dean and Professor (Entomology/Toxicology), Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia

Murray B. Isman is a Professor of Entomology and Toxicology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Dean of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. He is a recognized international authority on botanical insecticides, having authored over 170 refereed publications, including 20 book chapters, and co-edited two books. He serves on the editorial boards of five scientific journals and has provided peer reviews for over 80 different journals. He has performed extensive research for over 30 years in the areas of insect toxicology and behavior, and insect-plant chemical interactions, with particular emphasis on the discovery and development of botanical insecticides and antifeedants. For the past 15 years he has participated in the development of natural pesticides for EcoSMART Technologies Inc., whose products are sold in over 10,000 retail outlets in the USA and in 10 other countries. He has held visiting professorships in Brazil and China, and has been appointed a visiting scientist in Germany and Korea. He is currently a scientific advisor for ADAPPT (African Dryland Alliance for Pesticidal Plant Technologies), an EU-funded research network. Dr. Isman has also served as President for the International Society of Chemical Ecology, the Phytochemical Society of North America and the Entomological Society of British Columbia. Later this year he will receive the Gold Medal for outstanding achievement from the Entomological Society of Canada. His current teaching includes contributions to courses in entomology and environmental toxicology, and coordination of the Faculty鈥檚 first year course, LFS 100. He has also supervised 24 graduate students, 12 postdoctoral fellows and 14 visiting scholars. Dr. Isman received his doctorate in Entomology from the University of California at Davis in 1981 and holds BSc and MSc degrees in Zoology from UBC.

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Bruno Larue

Canada Research Chair in International Agri-food Trade, Universit茅 Laval

Bruno Larue is the Canada Research Chair in International Agri-food Trade at Laval University since 2002. He is also the Director of the Centre for Research on the Economics of the Environment, Agri-food, Transports and Energy (CREATE) which regroups 13 researchers based at Laval University and researchers at 涩里番, Carleton, Ottawa, and the University of Macedonia. He is also the coordinator of a research network on the Structure and Performance of Agriculture and Agri-products industry (SPAA). Born in St-Hyacinthe 鈥渙n asphalt鈥� (i.e., not on a farm), he obtained a B.Sc. from Macdonald College (of 涩里番 U.) in Agricultural Economics in 1983 and a Ph.D from Iowa State University in 1988. He began his career at the University of Guelph in 1988 before moving to Laval University in 1991. He was president of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society in 2004 and served as editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics between 1998 and 2001. Throughout his career, he has written journal articles and book chapters over a wide range of issues in international trade, industrial organization, production economics and consumer economics. The bulk of is current research deals with theoretical and empirical issues associated with trade liberalization, like the economics of non-tariff barriers and the interactions between trade and domestic agricultural policies.

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Chad Lubelsky

Interim Executive Director, Santropol Roulant, Montreal

Chad Lubelsky likes working with people, getting to know them, finding out what they are passionate about and supporting processes that help them meet their goals. He is currently the interim Executive Director of Santropol Roulant, a Montreal-based youth-led community food centre. Prior to his work with the Roulant, Chad was with the South-African based Association for Progressive Communications, where he supported collaborative networks of organizations working in communication for human rights and with GOOD Corps as their Canadian Grants Manager. He holds a B.A. and M.A in Communications and an MA in Leadership. He is also a fiercely proud native Montrealer and believes strongly in the city and its collective sense of community, possibility and potential.

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Chandra A. Madramootoo

Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 涩里番

Professor Chandra Madramootoo is Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Associate Vice-Principal of 涩里番, a member of the senior academic leadership team of 涩里番, and a James 涩里番 Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering. He was the driving force behind the creation of the 涩里番 Institute of Global Food Security, as well as 涩里番鈥檚 Brace Centre for Water Resources Management. He served as the Founding Director of the Brace Centre for a seven year period. Chandra Madramootoo obtained his BSc(AgrEng), MSc and PhD degrees in agricultural engineering at 涩里番 and has also developed his academic career at 涩里番 as a professor in irrigation and drainage engineering, rising rapidly through the academic ranks. He is a registered Professional Engineer and member of the Ordre des ing茅nieurs du Qu茅bec.

Chandra Madramootoo is an internationally respected expert in water table management, irrigation, drainage, water quality, watershed management, land reclamation, agricultural research, and international agriculture development. He currently serves as the President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), and was Vice-President of ICID from 2000-2003, having served the ICID in numerous capacities prior to that.

Dean Madramootoo is a member of the Governing Board of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), one of the 15 Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and headquartered in Andhra Pradesh, India. He has served as a consultant to several Canadian and international agencies. His research and teaching in water resources management has led to extensive international involvement with governments and institutions in the Caribbean, Central Asia, China, Egypt, Guyana, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. As a result of his vision and innovation, he launched and convened the highly successful 涩里番 Conferences on Global Food Security.

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Grace Marquis

Canada Research Chair in Social and Environmental Aspects of Nutrition, Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, 涩里番

Grace S. Marquis is Canadian Research Chair in Social and Environmental Aspects of Nutrition in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition and the Interim Director for the Centre for Indigenous Peoples鈥� Nutrition and Environment (CINE) at 涩里番. She has worked in community research on child nutrition for 25 years, primarily in Peru and Ghana. Her research has examined determinants of diet and nutritional status of infants and young children living in poverty and the means by which individuals, communities, and societies can intervene to promote optimal nutrition. Longitudinal studies in Ghana have contributed to understanding the mechanisms by which HIV alters households鈥� ability to provide optimal feeding and caregiving for infants and, based on this knowledge, to develop alternative feeding and caregiving strategies that will support child health and growth and are feasible for HIV-affected families to carry out. Projects in both Peru and Ghana support community-based adult education and income-generation activities in agriculture production to improve the availability, accessibility, and use of animal source foods in the diets of young children.

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William Masters

Professor and Chair, Department of Food and Nutritional Policy, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Will Masters joined the faculty at Tufts University in July 2010, where he conducts research and teaches on food policy, including production, markets and trade. He worked previously in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University (1991-2010), and also taught at the University of Zimbabwe (1989-90) and Columbia University (2003-04). Recent publications include an undergraduate textbook, Economics of Agricultural Development (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2010) and 鈥淓ffects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time鈥� (Economics and Human Biology, 2010). From 2006 through 2011 he edited Agricultural Economics, the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and is an International Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists. Details are available online on the .

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David McInnes

President and CEO, Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI)

David McInnes is President and CEO of the Ottawa-based Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI), a catalyst for advancing a national dialogue on emerging issues facing the country鈥檚 agri-food sector. Previously, he was Vice-President, International Relations at MDS Nordion, a major life sciences company, and has worked for the Canadian Bankers Association, the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada. David is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Dalhousie University. David is currently a director of WaterCan and has been a director of the Greater Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, the Ottawa Life Sciences Council, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation and the U.S.-based Council of Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals. David has published the book "Taking It to the Hill - the Complete Guide to Appearing Before Parliamentary Committees" (2^nd edition).

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Roger 惭茅苍补谤诲

Director, Planning and Policies, Qu茅bec Department of International Relations

Mr. Roger 惭茅苍补谤诲 completed economics studies at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Trois-Rivi猫res and at University of British Columbia. He also holds a master鈥檚 degree in economics from the Universit茅 de Montr茅al.

Mr. 惭茅苍补谤诲 began his career as an international consultant and subsequently joined the public service of Qu茅bec, in 1989. He worked as economist at the Qu茅bec Department of Natural Resources from 1991 to 1998, and then assumed functions at the Qu茅bec Treasury Board Secretariat and at the Qu茅bec Secretariat for Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs.

In 2002, he was appointed as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the Qu茅bec Housing Corporation. As chief negotiator on political and economic issues involving federal and provincial governments, he notably developed strategic priorities, policies and initiatives in the area of Canadian and aboriginal intergovernmental affairs.

In 2007, M. 惭茅苍补谤诲 was appointed as Director of Economic and Political Analysis at the Qu茅bec Department of International Relations. From 2008, he also acted as Director of Operational and Strategic Planning, supervising the elaboration and the implementation of the 2009-2014 Action Plan accompanying Qu茅bec鈥檚 International Policy, as well as the 2011-2014 Ministry鈥檚 Strategic Plan, published in 2011. He was appointed to his current position of Director of Planning and Policies in February 2010 and was therefore greatly involved with subjects related to the presence of head offices of international organizations in Montr茅al.

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Humberto Monardes

Professor, Department of Animal Science, 涩里番

Dr. Humberto Monardes was born in Santiago, Chile. He earned a B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Concepcion, Chile, in 1971, a M.Sc.(1981) and a Ph.D. (1984) from 涩里番. Before joining the staff at 涩里番, Dr. Monardes worked for the Quebec Dairy Herd Analysis Service (now Valacta). Dr. Humberto Monardes is currently Professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of 涩里番 and visiting professor at both the Universidade Federal do Paran谩 and the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, in Brazil.

His research and teaching in dairy cattle genetics and milk quality, as well as his expertise in animal recording has led to his international involvement with farmers associations, governments and universities in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay). He has directed three institutional cooperation projects funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to provide training and support to Argentinean and Brazilian dairy farmers so as to strengthen their capacity in dairy production, market empowerment and trade through the transfer of technology and expertise. Project mandates also included the development of field services, research, teaching and extension capabilities in local universities. Dr. Monardes is currently participating in developmental activities in The Ukraine, China and Paraguay. He is a permanent consultant for the Brazilian Council on Milk Quality and the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, and a member of the Board of Directors of Valacta 鈥� the Qu茅bec Centre d鈥橢xpertise en Production Laiti猫re.

In recent times he has been a strong advocate of improving smallholder production and rational livestock production to enhance food security and environmental sustainability.

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Ottoniel Monterroso Rivas

Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala

Ottoniel Monterroso was born in Guatemala City the 17th of June 1971. Guatemala鈥檚 political turbulence obligated his father and family to look for political refuge in Mexico in 1981. He graduated as an Agronomy Engineer at the Universidad Aut贸noma Metropolitana, Mexico, in 1993. In 1996, he received a M.S. degree in Agricultural Economics at Wye College, University of London, United Kingdom. He is a Ph.D. in Tropical Agriculture graduated at Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica.

Ottoniel Monterroso lives in Guatemala since 1996. He has worked for the Ministry of Agriculture in Guatemala (from 1997 to 1999), and for the Secretariat of Planning (2006-2008). He has been consultant in rural development and food security for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), UN Organization of Food and Agriculture (FAO), Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) and other organizations. He is now working at the Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment, at Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala. His research interests are on rural development and food security. His research is related to analyze the role of farming systems for generating rural employment and reducing food insecurity. His contact address is ottoniel [at] catie.ac.cr.

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David Morley

President & CEO, UNICEF Canada

David Morley joined UNICEF Canada as President and CEO on March 14, 2011. Prior to his appointment as president and CEO of UNICEF Canada, Mr. Morley had served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children Canada.

Mr. Morley鈥檚 extensive experience in international cooperation began when he volunteered with street children in Central America in the 1970s. Since then he has worked in community development and humanitarian projects in Congo, Zambia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Brazil. From 1980 to 1998 he was Executive Director of Pueblito, a Canadian/Latin American NGO which promotes the rights and well-being of children.

From 1998 鈥� 2005, Mr. Morley was Executive Director of the Canadian section of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders. In 2005 he was chosen by the Right Hon. Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul to serve as the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, as President of the Ontario Council for International Cooperation, and as a mentor with the Trudeau Foundation. He was a founding member of the Humanitarian Coalition. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, the Brazilian-based Abrinq Foundation for the Rights of Children and is on the Advisory Board of 涩里番鈥檚 Institute for the Study of International Development.

David Morley's writing on international issues has appeared in the newspapers across Canada and around the world, and he is a frequent commentator on radio and television. His most recent book, Healing Our World: Inside Doctors without Borders, was released in 2007 in Canada, South Korea and the United States, where it has won a number of awards.

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Dr. Festus M. Murithi

Assistant Director, Socio-economics and Applied Statistics Division, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)

Festus M. Murithi is Assistant Director, Socio-economics and Applied Statistics Division of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI). He holds a Bsc (Agriculture), MSc (Agricultural Economics) from the University of Nairobi and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Reading University, UK.

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The Honourable Beverley J. Oda

Minister of International Cooperation

The Honourable Beverley J. Oda was appointed the Minister of International Cooperation on August聽14, 2007. The Member of Parliament for Durham (Ontario), she is responsible for Canada's overseas development assistance through CIDA.

Ms. Oda was first elected to Parliament in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006 and 2008. On February聽6, 2006, she was appointed Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women. Previous to this, she served in Opposition as the Critic for Canadian Heritage and as a member of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.

Prior to her election, Ms. Oda spent more than two decades in the fields of public and private broadcasting. In 1999, Ms. Oda was appointed senior Vice-President, Industry Affairs, at CTV. From 1987 to 1993, she served as a commissioner with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

Ms. Oda began her broadcasting career at TV Ontario in 1973. In 1976, she moved to the field of commercial broadcasting. She has also worked as a consultant in the areas of multiculturalism, diversity and broadcasting.

Ms. Oda was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, in 1944. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts. She served as chair of the Lakeridge Health Hospital Network and is a recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee medal.

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Brent Paterson

Executive Director, Irrigation and Farm Water Division, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Lethbridge, Alberta

Brent Paterson received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Alberta, Faculty of Agriculture, specializing in soil sciences. He has worked more than 30 years with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development in a variety programs related to irrigation water management, subsurface drainage, salinity reclamation, and rural water supply.

Brent Paterson is currently Executive Director of the Irrigation and Farm Water Division with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, located in Lethbridge, Alberta. He is responsible for all agriculture programs related to irrigation, agricultural water management, water quality, and rural water supply throughout Alberta. He supervise approximately 75 research, professional and technologist staff located throughout the province. A major program focus is on research and development in support of Alberta鈥檚 650,000 hectares of irrigation. Irrigation expansion and productivity, on-farm irrigation water use efficiency, climate change, and quality water for safe food production are currently the highest priority areas.

Brent Paterson's has experience with agricultural water management, salinity reclamation and water quality programs in a number of countries, including Egypt, China, India, Pakistan, Iran and Ethiopia.

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Carlo Primiani

Student, Department of Bioresource Engineering, 涩里番

Carlo Primiani is a third year student in the department of Bioresource Engineering at 涩里番. In his time at Macdonald campus he has been involved with Engineers Without Borders Canada which in turn led to his participation at previous Global Food Security Conferences. Together with a small team of students he decided to take a more active role in the conference and has had the good fortune to work on putting together the student panel.

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Mark W. Rosegrant

Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Mark W. Rosegrant is Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). With a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, he has over 30 years of experience in research and policy analysis in agriculture and economic development, with an emphasis on water resources and other critical natural resource and agricultural policy issues as they impact food security, rural livelihoods and environmental sustainability. Rosegrant developed IFPRI's International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), which has become a standard for projections and scenarios for global and regional food demand, supply, trade and prices; and IMPACT-WATER, which integrates a detailed water supply and demand model with the food model. He currently directs research on climate change, water resources, sustainable land management, genetic resources and biotechnology, and agriculture and energy. He is the author or editor of 7 books and over 100 refereed papers in agricultural economics, water resources and food policy analysis. Rosegrant has won numerous awards, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2007 was elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.

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Amit H. Roy

President and CEO, International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC)

Dr. Roy, IFDC鈥檚 president and chief executive officer, has more than 30 years of experience in international agricultural development in more than 100 countries. He oversees about 100 multinational staff members in the U.S. and more than 700 in 22 countries worldwide. Leading IFDC from fertilizer to agribusiness and economic development, Roy instituted research and development of new or modified fertilizer materials and processes using indigenous sources, especially phosphate rock. He is now leading IFDC in the development of the next generation of fertilizers, which will more effectively release nutrients when crops need them. The Virtual Fertilizer Research Center (VFRC) was established under Roy鈥檚 leadership. Roy is working to expand IFDC鈥檚 successful urea deep placement (UDP) technology from Bangladesh to Sub-Saharan Africa. Roy was asked in 2011 to co-lead with Dr. Roland Scholz the Global TraPs project, hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Z眉rich. In June 2008, Roy spoke before the Hunger Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives about long-term solutions to global food security. He played a pivotal role in the 2006 Africa Fertilizer Summit held in Abuja, Nigeria, and implemented by IFDC. Under his leadership, IFDC developed a working and vibrant market for agricultural supplies and products in Albania where none existed previously. He has numerous publications to his credit and has been an invited speaker to many international research and development meetings. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and has served on the executive committee on fertilizer and chemicals for the National Safety Council. He is listed in Who鈥檚 Who in America. Roy holds doctorate and master鈥檚 degrees in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He received a bachelor鈥檚 degree with honors in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

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Michel R. Saint-Pierre

Former Deputy Minister, MAPAQ

After obtaining a bachelor鈥檚 degree in agronomy from Laval University, Michel聽R. Saint-Pierre obtained a degree in business administration from the University of Montreal鈥檚 脡cole des hautes 茅tudes commerciales. His first experience in the flourishing agri-food industry was with the Business Development Bank of Canada. In 1976 he was appointed to the position of Assistant Director General of the Quebec agri-food venture capital organization SOQUIA. He was subsequently appointed President and CEO of the R茅gie des assurances agricoles with a specific mandate to refloat the Farm Income Stabilization Insurance program, whose deficit was a pressing concern at the time. He had barely completed this assignment when he was appointed Chairman of the Office du cr茅dit agricole which would become the Soci茅t茅 de financement agricole. From 2000 to 2003, Mr.聽Saint-Pierre was the Director General of the Le centre d鈥檌nsemination artificielle du Qu茅bec. In 2003, he returned to the world of agricultural financing and insurance as the President of La Financi猫re agricole du Qu茅bec. In 2004, he was appointed Deputy Minister of the ministre de l'Agriculture, des P锚cheries et de l'Alimentation du Qu茅bec (MAPAQ). It was during this mandate that Mr. Saint-Pierre persuaded the sitting Minister to found the Commission sur l鈥檃venir de l鈥檃griculture et de l鈥檃groalimentaire qu茅b茅cois. The commission鈥檚 report was tabled in February 2008; one of its primary recommendations was to undertake a comprehensive review of agricultural support programs. Given the importance of the task at hand, Mr. Saint-Pierre was asked to lead the review. He was named Secretary General and assigned to the Office of the Executive Council and the Privy Council. In March 2009, he tabled his report entitled 鈥淎 New Generation of Financial Support Programs to Agriculture鈥�. The same year, he was appointed Chairman of the 5th World Congress of Agronomists which will take place in Quebec City in 2012.

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Marilyn Scott

Director, 涩里番 School of Environment, 涩里番

After receiving her PhD in Parasitology from 涩里番, Marilyn Scott spent two years at Imperial College, London, UK doing postdoctoral research in experimental parasite epidemiology. She returned to 涩里番 as an Assistant Professor in 1982. Her research on human and livestock parasites has taken her and her students to Mexico, Dominica, Guatemala, Colombia, Kenya, the former Zaire, and most recently, Panama. In collaboration with Dr. Kristine Koski (Dietetics and Human Nutrition, 涩里番) and a network of collaborators in Panama, she uses an ecohealth approach that links social interventions (conditional transfer programs) and subsistence agriculture with a range of infectious diseases and micronutrient deficiencies in mothers and young children in rural Panama. In the area of host-parasite population dynamics, Marilyn鈥檚 students are investigating the impact of parasitism on a fish ecosystem in Trinidad, energetic trade-offs induced in mice by concurrent stresses of parasitic infection, pregnancy and malnutrition, and biogeography and evolutionary relationships in mosquito vectors of malaria in Panama. She was the 1991 recipient of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal from the American Society of Parasitologists for her contributions to the field by a researcher under the age of 40. In 2006, she received the Robert Wardle Award from the Canadian Society of Zoologists (Parasitology Section) for outstanding contributions by a Canadian to parasitology. Marilyn has held several administrative positions at 涩里番. She was Director of the Institute of Parasitology from 1990 and 2000. She was one of 6 professors charged with creating the 涩里番 School of Environment (MSE) in 1998. Since then, she has served the MSE in various administrative capacities, and she spearheaded the development of a Graduate Option in Environment, now available to graduate students in 26 different programs across 涩里番. She was appointed to a five-year term as Director of the MSE in June 2008.

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Aidan Senzanje

University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Dr Aidan Senzanje holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering specialising in Irrigation Engineering from Colorado State University in the USA and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Irrigation Engineering at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. His areas of interest are in irrigation, agricultural water management, water resources management and rural development. He has over 15 years of working in irrigation and related areas 鈥� both in academia and consultancies. In academia his main areas or lecturing at both BSc & MSc are: irrigation & drainage engineering, irrigation & agricultural water management, soil and water conservation engineering & systems. As an academic he has published over 60 papers (journals, conference papers, invited articles) and co-edited 1 book and 1 monograph. He has participated as a consultant in many development projects in irrigation and agriculture that included assessing the irrigation potential of 60 medium dams in Zimbabwe, developing the smallholder irrigation support (SSIP) program for Zimbabwe by the EU, developing EIA and EMS Guidelines for Malawi funded by the World Bank, reviewed various projects (mid-term and final) for various organisations including FAO. He also designed the short course for the training of irrigation designers by FAO of UN, and worked on the institutionalisation of such training. He has working knowledge of various countries including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.

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Amanda Sheedy

Program Coordinator, Food Secure Canada

Amanda Sheedy loves good food, good conversation and any process that deepens our democratic culture. Currently, she is the Program Coordinator of Food Secure Canada 鈥� a national non-profit organization working for zero hunger, a sustainable food system and healthy, safe food. Until recently, she coordinated the People鈥檚 Food Policy Project that launched a national food policy platform based in the principles of food sovereignty during the last federal election, gaining the support of the NDP and the Green Party. The citizen-led process of developing the policy drew on conversations with 3500 Canadians about the food system they want and summarized this vision into 10 discussion papers and one overarching document (available at ). A Master鈥檚 of Public Health Candidate (University of Toronto), Amanda brings to this work a decade of experience in participatory democracy, community development and health promotion. She wrote a 鈥淗andbook on Citizen Engagement: Beyond Consultation鈥�, published by the Canadian Policy Research Networks in 2008.

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Donald L. Smith

James 涩里番 Professor, Plant Science Department, 涩里番

During Donald Smith's 25 years at 涩里番, 53 graduate students have worked under his direct supervision, 31 Ph.D. and 22 M.Sc. These have worked largely in production and physiology of crop plants, more recently with an emphasis on plant-microbe interactions. The following crops have been investigated in one capacity or another: soybean, corn, barley, wheat, lupin, alfalfa, pea, bean, lentil, cowpea, sorghum, pearl millet, tomato, alfalfa, clover, swtichgrass, miscanthus, reed canarygrass, poplar. The areas of research investigation are as follows: nitrogen metabolism, nitrogen fixation, root zone temperature stress and nodule development, development of methods for injection of metabolites into developing plants, barley production, use of plant growth regulators, intercropping, the dynamics of inter-plant competition, plant-microbe signaling, plants and climate change, biofuel crops, crop stress responses and biochar as a soil ammendment. He is involved in the physiological responses of crop plants to increasing atmospheric CO₂ levels and to climate change, plant-microbe signaling and biochar effects on crop productivity. Throughout his research career, work on nitrogen fixation has been a consistent theme, beginning with an undergraduate research project on cyanobacteria in 1974. Current work in this area includes signaling between symbiotic partners during establishment of the legume-rhizobia symbiosis. Altogether this research activity has resulted over 260 publications (from his postgraduate research activities and those of his graduate students), five patents issued and three others applied for, and a spin-off company (Bios Agriculture Inc.). During his 25 years at 涩里番 he has been principal investigator on research grants totaling over $10 million, and has been a co-applicant on approximately $12.5 million in other funds. He currently leads the NSERC funded ($1.2 million per year) on crops and climate change, including work on biofuels, and also heads the . He has had international collaborations with the US, India, China, Russia, Brazil and Africa.

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Eugene Terry

Senior Technical Advisor, TransFarm Africa (TFA)

Eugene Terry is currently TransFarm Africa鈥檚 (TFA) Senior Technical Advisor. Born in Sierra Leone, Dr. Terry is an agricultural research and development specialist with 46 years of accumulated professional experience in international agricultural research and development. He holds a BSc in agriculture and an MSc in plant pathology from 涩里番, Montreal, Canada, and a PhD in plant pathology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. Dr. Terry has held leadership positions in institutional management in international agricultural research institutions and international development agencies. He was the first Director General of the West Africa Rice Development Association (now the Africa Rice Centre) a position he held for nine (9) years. He then joined the World Bank in Washington DC as a Crops Adviser in the Agriculture and Rural Development Department. He was appointed the Founding Director of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation in 2002, and then served as a Trustee of that organization. Dr. Terry also served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the World Agro-forestry Centre (ICRAF), and is currently a trustee on the boards of several institutions including the World Vegetable Centre, the West Africa Centre of Crop Improvement, and The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. He was awarded Mali鈥檚 2010 Presidential Award for Outstanding Contributions to Rice Research and Development in Africa.

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Paul Thomassin

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics Program, 涩里番

Paul J. Thomassin is an Associate Professor in the Agricultural Economics Program at 涩里番. He received his B.Sc. (Agr) at 涩里番 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in Agricultural and Resource Economics. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO) in the experimental economics group, and has been a Visiting Professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii, Visiting Fellow at The Australian National University, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

His area of specialization is agriculture and environmental economics. His research includes the macroeconomic impacts of nutrition related chronic disease, the non-market valuation and accounting of ecological goods and services, the integration of economic and epidemiological and biological-physical models, and the use of experimental economics for institutional design. In addition, he has an interest in the valuation of food attributes, which include their health and environmental attributes. Other areas of research include the institutional design of a domestic emission trading system that includes offsets from the agriculture sector and the integration of agriculture and food policies into a single policy platform.

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Robert L. Thompson

Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Senior Fellow, Global Agricultural Development & Food Security, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Robert L. Thompson is a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University鈥檚 Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he held the Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy. He is also Senior Fellow, global agricultural development and food security, with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and serves on the USDA-USTR Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade, the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, and the Land O鈥橪akes board of directors. Previously Dr. Thompson served as Director of Rural Development and Senior Advisor for Agricultural Trade Policy at the World Bank (1998-2002); President and CEO of the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development (1993-98); Dean of Agriculture (1987-93) and Professor of Agricultural Economics (1974-93) at Purdue University; Assistant Secretary for Economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1985-87) and Senior Staff Economist for Food and Agriculture at the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1983-85). Thompson, who received his B.S. degree from Cornell University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, holds honorary doctorates from the Pennsylvania State University and Dalhousie University (Canada). He is a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is a former president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. In January 2011 the American Farm Bureau Federation presented him with its highest honor, the Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award. Raised on a small family dairy farm in New York State, Dr. Thompson has extensive international experience and has lectured, consulted, or conducted research in more than 90 countries worldwide, including extended periods in Denmark, Laos, and Brazil.

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Kevin Tiessen

Senior Program Officer, IDRC

Kevin Tiessen is a soil scientist with expertise in agriculture, food security, and long-term protection of soil and water. His responsibilities at IDRC include the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, a joint program of IDRC and the Canadian International Development Agency.

Tiessen comes to IDRC from the University of Manitoba, where he did post-doctoral research in soil science. He has worked with agricultural research centres in Canada and Costa Rica, studying issues of water quality and quantity, soil and water conservation, soil fertility, and agricultural production. He has also worked with farmers and agronomists in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is widely published in fields ranging from potato and wheat production in Canada to soil erosion in Latin America.

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Paul Wilson

Associate Professor and Director, Rural Business Research Unit, University of Nottingham

Paul Wilson hails from a farming background near the English Lake District. Having obtained first and higher degrees at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne he went on to take up a lectureship in agricultural management and economics at the University of Nottingham in 1995. Currently Associate Professor and Director of the University of Nottingham鈥檚 Rural Business Research Unit, Dr Wilson鈥檚 research interests centre around agricultural and food economics and sustainable agriculture. As Chief Executive Officer of Rural Business Research, he leads the English Farm Business Survey research programme, covering the financial, physical and associated farm income data on 2000 farms per annum, with data and analysis feeding into UK and EU policy making. Dr Wilson鈥檚 specific research interests include farm efficiency, consumer demand, prices transmission through the food chain, agricultural decision making, sustainable agricultural systems, applied econometrics and sustainable bioenergy, with the latter focusing upon co-product second generation biofuels. He is the University of Nottingham champion for Global Food Security research responses to climatic and environmental change. Much of the research in this area is located in the School of Biosciences which was ranked first in terms of research power in the most the recent English Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) for agriculture, food and veterinary sciences. Dr Wilson also chairs the School of Biosciences Knowledge Transfer and Outreach group focusing upon transferring research information to stakeholders and the community.

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Kathryn Young

Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company, Chicago

Katie King Young is an Associate Principal out of McKinsey & Company鈥檚 Chicago Office (currently living in Seattle). Katie joined the Firm in 2003 and works in several major sectors including social sector, consumer packaged goods, and agribusiness. Her work has primarily focused on agricultural development and food security. Her passion is building mechanisms to link smallholder farmers to sustainable market opportunities. Example work includes 1) developing food security strategies to reduce poverty and malnutrition for 16 USAID Missions in SSA, Asia, and Latin America, 2) developing an end-to-end strategy to increase soy productivity, and processing in Sub Saharan Africa though private sector demand sinks, and 3) creating a frontline change strategy for the Ethiopian Government鈥檚 60,000 extension agents. She also was part of the team that modeled agriculture鈥檚 potential impact on reducing global hunger and poverty; this work resulted in the Gates Foundation making a commitment to agriculture as a strategic priority in 2005.

Katie also works with private sector agribusiness and consumer companies, helping them prepare for global trends, explore innovative partnerships, and build strategies for long term investments. For example, she recently worked with a leading US grains co-op to develop a long term strategic growth platform.

Katie holds a Masters in Public Policy (MPP, focusing on International Development) from the University of Chicago and a Bachelors in Spanish and Honors Political Science from Kenyon College.

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Sergiy Zorya

Senior Economist in Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD), World Bank

Sergiy Zorya is the Senior Economist in Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) of the World Bank. Sergiy joined the Bank in 2005 through the Young Professionals Program, and prior to ARD worked in three Bank regions, i.e. Europe and Central Asia, Eastern Asia and Pacific, and Africa. The most recent work has been in South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Sergiy holds the Master degree in Agricultural Economics from the Agricultural University of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany.