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Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.
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Md. Mozibar Rahman is a Coordinator of Seed Systems and Marketing in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. He is responsible for coordinating seed multiplication and marketing of biofortified crop seeds and developing the HarvestPlus strategy to boost biofortified seed supply. Mozibar is also responsible for coordinating and managing project activities. Prior to taking on this role in 2020, Mozibar was the Agricultural Research and Development Officer at IFPRI-HarvestPlus. He has also worked at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Bangladesh, as a Senior Specialist-Agricultural Development, and with RDRS Bangladesh as a field coordinator. He started his career with BRAC, as an agricultural extensionist and as a regional sector specialist.
Mozibar earned an MSc from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, and an EMBA in Marketing from Uttara University, Dhaka.