Vardan Urutyan, PhD in Economics, is the Director of the International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (ICARE) and the Head of the Agribusiness Department of the Armenian State Agrarian University (ASAU). Dr. Urutyan has a rich teaching and extensive research experience in the area of vertical coordination in agro-food supply chains, contract farming, agricultural cooperatives, as well as socio-economic impact and sustainability assessments. Dr.

Uma Lele, Former Senior Advisor in the World Bank is now an independent reesearcher with number of years of reearch and operational experience in intenational development in Asia, Africa and Latin America with numerous publications