2020 Advisory Council
Members
- Mr. Tom Arnold
Chief Executive Officer
Concern Worldwide
Ireland -
Mr. Sartaj Aziz
Vice-Chancellor
Beaconhouse National University and Former Finance Minister, Foreign Minister and Agriculture Minister
Government of Pakistan
Pakistan -
Mr. Lennart Båge
President
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Italy -
Rev. David Beckmann
Director
Bread for the World
USA -
Ms. Catherine Bertini
Former Chair
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
USA -
Dr. Keith A. Bezanson
Former Director
Institute of Development Studies
United Kingdom -
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1970 and Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture
Texas A&M University
USA -
The Rt.Hon Lord Malloch-Brown
Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN attending Cabinet
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
United Kingdom -
Mr. Lester Brown
President
Earth Policy Institute
USA -
Dr. Margaret Catley-Carlson
Chairperson
Global Water Partnership
USA -
Prof. Chen Chunming
Senior Advisor and President
Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine
China -
Dr. Bernd Eisenblätter
Managing Director
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Germany -
Dr. Michel Griffon
Scientific Director
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
France -
Mrs. Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis
Assistant Secretary-General
Assistant Administrator
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
and Director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
USA -
Dr. Dean R. Hirsch
President and CEO
World Vision International
USA - H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor
President
Republic of Ghana
Ghana -
Sra. Margarita Marino de Botero
Corporacion El Colegio Verde
Colombia -
Mr. Robert S. McNamara
Former President
The World Bank
USA -
Mr. Peter McPherson
President
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
and Founding Co-Chair
Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
USA -
Dr. Moïse Mensah
Former Minister of Finance
Benin -
Hon. Dame Billie A. Miller
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
Barbados -
Mr. Harris Mutio Mule
Executive Director
Top Investment and Management Services (TIMS) Limited
Kenya
-
H.E. Yoweri K. Museveni
President
Republic of Uganda
Uganda -
H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Nigeria -
Dr. Maureen O'Neil
President
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Canada - Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
Secretary-General
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Switzerland - Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy
Cornell University
USA -
Mrs. Mary Robinson
Director
Ethical Globalization Initiative
USA -
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
Director
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
USA -
Dr. Pedro Sanchez
Director of Tropical Agriculture
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
USA -
Prof. Amartya Sen
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1998 and Master of Trinity College
United Kingdom -
Dr. Ismail Serageldin
Director
Library of Alexandria
Egypt -
Dr. Ammar Siamwalla
Former President
Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation
Thailand -
Ms. Katherine Sierra
Chairperson
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
and Vice President for Sustainable Development
The World Bank
USA -
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
Chairman
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
India -
Mr. M. Syeduzzaman
Former Minister of Finance
Bangladesh -
Dr. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur
Executive President
African Business Roundtable and Chairperson NEPAD Business Group
Nigeria -
Ms. Diane Vincent
Former Executive Vice President
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Canada -
Prof. Joachim von Braun (Ex-Officio)
Director General
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
USA -
H.E. Abdoulaye Wade
President
Republic of Senegal
Senegal -
T.H. Youssef Wally
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
Egypt -
Mr. Jack Wilkinson
President
International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP)
France -
Dr. Vo-Tong Xuan
Rector
Angiang University
Vietnam
-
Prof. Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006 and Founder
Grameen Bank
Bangladesh