Dr. James Kinyangi is the regional program leader for East Africa for the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). He oversees the work of participating partners and coordinates actions that lead to coherent implementation of the CCAFS regional engagement strategy. This includes participatory selection of research sites and facilitating action research at multiple scales. Core activities with partners contribute to research outputs that are critical to achieving program goals and addressing regional priorities.

Senior Agricultural Specialist in the Africa region, Agriculture and Rural Development, coordinating the CAADP-CGIAR Steering Committee. Formerly with the Alliance Office for the CGIAR Centers (as Senior Program Officer, and as Executive Secretary to the Directors General, 2002-2007) and the CGIAR Secretariat in the Science Advisors group (1989-1994).

I am the the incoming Executive Secretary of EIARD following Philippe Petithuguenin in November 2012. Since GCARD2 stretches from October until November, the EC is not able to fund the participation of either Philippe or myself. However, GIZ, my home institution, has agreed to support my participation if the organizers agree to it.

Jean-Marcel Ribaut, Director of the Generation Challenge Program (GCP), a 10-year initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), is responsible for leading and coordinating a large network of partners in modern crop breeding for food security.

Anthropologist with 27 years of experience in agricultural, natural resource management, and biodiversity conservation research and development. Former team leader for Trees and Markets at World Agroforestry Centre, now oversee conservation and REDD+ projects at USAID. Manage grant to CIFOR.