Pamela K. Anderson has been Director General of the International Potato Center (CIP) since May 2005. CIP is one of fifteen international agricultural research centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Prior to becoming Director General, she served as the Deputy Director General of Research at CIP (2002-2005) and as Senior Entomologist at the International Center for Tropical Agricultural, in Cali, Colombia (1997-2002). She received a M.Sc.

Mr Michael Adedotun Finish from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria as Postgraduate in Farm Management and Extension,good resource person, establish Agric Link Multipurpose Cooperative Society and worked with Federal Capital Territory of Agricultural Development Program as Extension Agent. Have attended several In International Conferences with support and He present papers to the call .

Dr. Simon Cook is a specialist in water, agriculture and rural development and was formerly coordinator of the Basin Focal Projects of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), a USD 10 million initiative to identify the condition of food, agricultural water and poverty in ten major river basins in the tropics. A native of the UK, now with dual British and Australian citizenship, Dr. Cook gained his PhD in soil science and agronomy at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Principal Agricultural Research Institute based at Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI) in Tanzania. She is experienced researcher in plant nutrition, plant physiology (drought stress) and cropping systems. She is involved in various networks both national and international. She has headed coconut agronomy section for over 20 years and coffee agronomy for three years. She has been a fellow of round one in African Women in Agriculture and Research Development (AWARD) under Gender and diversity Programme hosted under ICRAF.

Dr Ravi Prabhu joined World Agroforestry Centre in January 2012. He earned his professional degree and doctorate in forestry from the University of Goettingen, Germany. He is responsible for overseeing the whole research programme at the Centre. He was previously a Senior Programme Officer, Forests and Climate Change with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi.

Prof. August Temu is the Deputy Director General responsible for Partnership and Impact at the World Agroforestry Centre. He was the first Executive Secretary of the African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE). Between 1973 and 1992 he worked at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania where he held various senior management positions, including Deanship of the Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation.

As Programme Officer on Agriculture at ICTSD, I've managed several studies and organized many high impact meetings on trade, agriculture and food security. We regularly bring together thought leaders, senior government officials and partners in the private sector to discuss and act on concrete issues - particularly negotiations at the WTO. On a near weekly basis, with a help of broad network of contacts, I report on international agricultural trade issues in Geneva, Rome and elsewhere for the subscribers to our periodicals, such as Bridges.

Is a Groundnut Breeder at Naliendele Agricultural Research Institute under the Ministry of Agriculture,in Tanzania.He has PhD Degree from the University of East Anglia School of Development Studies Norwich UK which he completed in 1996 with PhD Thesis "Involving farmers in the design of low input control programme for sesame flea beetle Alocypha bimaculata Jacoby in sesame".He studied in USSR at Kishinev Agricultural University from 1983 to 1989 and received MSc Degree in Agriculture with specilization in Plant Breeding and genetics with Desertation on "Use of cytoplasmic male sterility in