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.

Education:
PhD, Ag and Applied Economics, from U of Minnesota
M.Sc. Computer Science, U of Minnesota
Work:
Ag and policy economist, Ciat, since 2010
University profesor for more than 10 years at USFQ, Flacso, ESPE universities in Ecuador.
Notional secretary of science and technology of Ecuador

Dr Bruce Campbell has degrees in Ecology from Cape Town (B.Sc. Hons.), Minnesota (M.Sc.) and Utrecht (Ph.D.), but has increasingly moved into inter-disciplinary work, championing new approaches to doing applied research on natural resource management. He is Director of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (www.ccafs.cgiar.org), and a staff member of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).