Agronomist, with 25 years of experiencie in rice research and research management at INIA Uruguay. Since 2005 Executive Director of the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice - FLAR based at CIAT in Colombia. FLAR gathers more than 30 rice related private and public institutions in 17 countries in an alliance with CIAT. Main focus of FLAR actions in Latin America is on a cooperative breeding program among members and on closing yield gaps among farmers in the region, through better crop management, expanding irrigation and strenghtening institutional organization.

I am a graduate in Agricultural Engineering from Uni. of Agri. Faisalabad, Pakistan. Before joining PARC in 1985, I had worked for a private tractor manufacturing company. Since then, I have played a pivotal role in agricultural research and development while supervising and monitoring of Agriculture Research policy matters at the Federal Government under the NARS in Pakistan. Since last six years I have worked on top positions in PARC that includes to work as Secretary, Council, Director (Farm Mechanization), and the Technical Staff Officer to Chairman, PARC.

Guy HENRY, Leader, Impact Assessment and Strategic Studies, CIAT.
Mr. Henry, a Dutch national is a senior policy economist with the French CIRAD, and he has been seconded to CIAT since 2011.

I am a Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) working at Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Lucknow, India an establishment of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Apart from my Plant Physiology research,I have keen interests in Open Access to Data and Information in Agriculture and doing Open Access advocacy among my peers and others in the organisation. I believe that Openness would invite more collaborations and thus would have more refinement of the technologies/knowledge which would make a greater impact on the society.