M.S. Swaminathan

Biography

On the occasion of his receiving the first World Food Prize at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, in October, 1987, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations wrote, "Dr. Swaminathan is a living legend. His contributions to agricultural science have made an indelible mark on food production in India and elsewhere in the developing world. By any standards, he will go into the annals of history as a world scientist of rare distinction".

MS Swaminathan is currently heading in an honorary capacity a Research Centre at Madras for sustainable agricultural and rural development based on the integration of traditional and frontier technologies. The Centre was set up with the funds associated with the World Food Prize, Tyler Prize and Honda Prize. The major aim of the Research Centre is the promotion of a job-led economic growth strategy in villages rooted in the principles of ecology and gender equity. UNESCO designated MS Swaminathan in 1996 as UNESCO-Cousteau Professor in Ecotechnology for Asia. He was the founder Chairman of the Iwokrama International Centre for the Sustainable Management of Rainforests. He is the current chairman of the National Foundation for India and the Auroville Foundation.

Justin Lin

Biography

Justin Yifu Lin is Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University. He received PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and is the author of 13 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, which has been published in seven languages, and more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition. He serves on many domestic and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment, and received many awards, including Docteur Honoris Causa of Universite D'Auvergne in France in 2004.

Danilo Cardenas

Speaker
Session 5 : Targeting and delivering research for marginal areas and marginalized people

Biography

Danilo C. Cardenas is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), Department of Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Economics, which he obtained from the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) in 1997; a Masters degree in Management and Supervision from the Central Michigan University (1982); and a B.S. degree in Agriculture, also obtained from UPLB (1975).

Danilo Cardenas has served in three of PCARRD's technical research divisions: the Crops Research Division; the Technology Outreach & Promotion Division where he served as its Director for 3 years; and the Socio-Economics Research Division, where he also served as its Director for almost 7 years, prior to his present position. His work with PCARRD as the country's central coordinating agency on agricultural and natural resources R&D had also afforded him opportunity to work with scores of Philippine National Research System (NARES) members and other international organizations in various capacities and on a wide variety of assignments.

Jiaan Cheng

Speaker
Session 3 : Environmental challenges to agricultural development and food security

Biography

Jiaan Cheng is Vice Presdient of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, the school he graduated from in 1964. He has been a visiting professor in the Department of Biology, Imperial College, United Kingdom and the Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, USA. Jiaan Cheng served as head of the Department of Crop Protection at Zhejiang Agricultural University for five years (1992 to 1997) before being named President of Zhejiang Agricultural University. In 1998, he was named Vice President of Zhejiang University when four universities in the region were consolidated. He is the author of more than 95 scientific papers and 5 books, most on topics related to pest management and entomological science.

Jiaan Cheng is part of the founding leadership of the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture and is a current member of the Executive Committee.

Hartwig de Haen

Moderator
Session 2 : The future of agriculture in a globalizing world
Speaker
Session 6 : Policy options for the future

Biography

Hartwig de Haen is currently the Assistant Director-General and head of the Economic and Social Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Previous to this (from 1990 to 1994) he was Assistant Director-General and head of the FAO Agriculture Department. He studied Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Economics at Universities of Kiel and Göttingen, Germany, and at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. Diploma (MSc) and Dr.sc.agr. (Ph.D.) in Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen. Following his studies he worked as Research Associate at Michigan State University and at the University of Bonn, Germany. Before joining FAO, he was Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His applied research comprised agricultural policy issues in Europe as well as in various countries of Asia, Near East and Africa. During his time in academic institutions Hartwig de Haen was a member of research and policy advisory bodies, including the Council of Scientific Advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Chair from 1988-1990). de Haen has published books and articles in the fields of production economics, development economics, agricultural policy and environmental economics.

Carl Eicher

Moderator
Session 6 : Policy options for the future

Biography

Carl Eicher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Michigan State University, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, holds degrees from both Harvard and Michigan State University. He has been a longstanding scholar of African agriculture and has written extensively on the subjects of agricultural research and development. In addition to having worked in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and the USA, Dr. Eicher has been a member of several World Bank and USAID missions to various African countries. A former visiting senior research fellow of ISNAR (1988), Carl Eicher has also held a small number of consultancies with other CG centers.

Goh Chien Yen

Speaker
Session 2 : The future of agriculture in a globalizing world

Geoffrey Hawtin

Moderator
Session 3 : Environmental challenges to agricultural development and food security

Biography

Geoffrey Hawtin is Senior Advisor – and until August 2005 was the Executive Secretary - of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, an international fund that he helped create to support the conservation of plant genetic resources worldwide. Until July 2003 he was Director General of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), a Centre of the CGIAR. Geoff obtained both his first degree and Ph.D. from Cambridge University, U.K., carrying out his doctoral thesis research while working at Makerere University, Uganda. He was the first Programme Leader of the Food Legume Improvement Programme of the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Syria before becoming ICARDA’s Deputy Director General- for nternational Cooperation in 1981. He has also served as Director of the Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Sciences Division of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) based in Ottawa, Canada. Geoff has dual British and Canadian citizenship, has authored or co-authored more than 80 scientific and technical publications and is currently based in the UK.

Hans Rudolf Herren

Speaker
Session 4 : Frontiers of science for agriculture in the 21st century

Biography

Hans R. Herren is the President of Millennium Institute. Most recently, he was Director General of the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, Kenya.

In 1995, he was named World Food Prize Laureate for advancing human development by improving the quality, quantity, and availability of the world's food supply. He was awarded the prize for his work on controlling the cassava mealybug in Africa.
Hans Herren has served as: Director of the Biological Control Program at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Nigeria and the Director of IITA's Plant Health Management Division in Benin.

He is Editor in Chief of Insect Science and Its Application and is a member of the Editorial Board of Biological Control Science and Technology. He is also a member of the Entomological Society of America, African Association of Insect Scientists, International Organization of Biological Control, New York Academy of Science, American Institute of Biological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Jikun Huang

Speaker
Session 2 : The future of agriculture in a globalizing world

Biography

Jikun Huang is the Founder and Director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as well as Professor and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research in China. His research covers a wide range of issues on China's agricultural and rural economy, including work on agricultural R&D policy, resource and environmental economics, price and marketing, food consumption, poverty, and trade liberalization. He has led more than forty research projects funded both internationally and domestically. He is author of nine books. He published more than 110 journal papers in China and about 70 papers in the refereed international journals, including articles in leading journals such as Science, Nature, and many top journals in the field of economics. He has received several awards and prizes from the Chinese Government, including top ten outstanding youth scientists in 2002, Outstanding Scientific Progress awards (4 times) from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Ke Bingsheng , Director General, Research Center for Rural Economy

Speaker
Session 2 : The future of agriculture in a globalizing world

Severin Kodderitzsch

Speaker
Session 6 : Policy options for the future

Biography

Severin Kodderitzsch, a German national, has been advisor for the Bank’s Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) Department since 2004 where he takes the lead on portfolio quality, knowledge sharing, and learning for the rural and agricultural staff within the Bank. He joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in September 1992 working for the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Rural Development Department, and in the South Asia Country Operations Department. From 1994 to 2002 he managed agricultural and rural policy and investment operations in the ECA Region (Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Poland, Turkey and in other countries). From 2002 to 2004 he led a unit focusing on the analysis of knowledge-based economies in the Bank’s Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region. Prior to joining the World Bank he was with the FAO Investment Center (1990 to 1992); and a commercial bank in Germany (1987-1989). He holds a Master in Agricultural Economics from the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim (Germany). In 1999 he completed his training as Chartered Financial Analyst.

Tie Li

Moderator
Session 1 : The future of rural areas in an urbanizing world

Biography

An expert on Rural Reform Policies and Urbanization Strategies, Mr. Li Tie used to be a worker and a teacher. He was engaged in policy research in different government departments: Rural Area Research Division of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China, China Rural Development Research Center, the Rural Division under the Development Research Center of the State Council, and the Rural Division under the State Commission for Restructuring Economy. He has taken responsibility on many national and international cooperation projects, and presided in many international and domestic conferences. His representative works are: Town Development-An Approach Suitable for China (a project of the State Commission for Restructuring Economy), Town Construction and Urbanization (Central Financial Office¡¯s project), The "tenth five-year plan" Urbanization Strategic Focus Plan and China's Early 21st Century Town Sustainable Development Strategy Study (projects of the State Planning Commission), Rural Urbanization Strategy and Management Study (a project of the National Natural Science Foundation), Town Development and Transferring of Surplus Rural Labor and Rural China's Urbanization and Town Development (projects of Hainan Foundation), and The System Change in China's Urbanization (a project of the China Reform Foundation), etc. He also took the lead in drafting The Guideline Suggestions on Town Comprehensive Reform Experimental Unit (former Document No.1995-49). He completed the design of The Comprehensive Reform Plan on the 57 Experimental Towns in China. In addition, he took part in the whole process of drafting Several Suggestions on Motivating the Healthy Development of Town by the CCPC and the State Council (2000-11). Furthermore, he was the major person taking charge of the projects Town Sustainable Development in China (a project of UNDP), and Family and Community Support ( a project of UNICEF). He also issued a special opinion of Urbanization on People Daily, Economy Daily and other major newspapers and periodicals.

Fuhe Liu, Head, Office of Poverty Alleviation and Reduction, State Council of the People's Republic of China

Speaker
Session 6 : Policy options for the future

Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo

Speaker
Session 5 : Targeting and delivering research for marginal areas and marginalized people

Biography

Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo joined the South African Human Rights Commission in August 1999, focusing on socio-economic rights, and is responsible for Mpumalanga. She has been serving on the Commission’s Committees on Children’s Rights and Disability since 1997.

Charlotte McClain obtained a Master of International Law at the University of Warsaw in Poland in 1998, and thereafter studied at Cornell Law School in New York.

Charlotte McClain has always been involved with human rights issues, particularly for children and people with special needs. She was Project Officer on Child Protection for UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund). She helped draft provincial policy for street children and convened a task team to establish a national register for sexual offenders against children. She is a member of the S.A. Law Commission Project Committee on sexual offences by and against children, and was Legal Advisor to the Disability Desk in the Office of the Deputy President during 1996.

Charlotte McClain has been a member of international delegations on child issues, disability institutes and steering committees and has consulted and researched on children’s rights extensively. She is the chair of the board of RAPCAN (Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect).She is also a member of UNISA council as well as a director of the BUSH radio, St Nicholas Home for Children and the Restorative Justice Initative.

Jeffrey McNeely

Speaker
Session 4 : Frontiers of science for agriculture in the 21st century

Biography

He has published widely on the relationship between agriculture and biodiversity, including a book entitled “Ecoagriculture: Strategies to feed the world and save wild biodiversity”. His latest book, due out in October 2005, is “Agriculture in the Lower Mekong Basin: experience from the critical decade 1965-1975.” He is a member of the Council of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative, an association of private sector food companies whose objective is to ensure the sustainability of the food chain in the products that they market. He is currently working with the Global Environment Facility to assess their investment in biosafety, primarily in the field of genetically modified organisms for agriculture.

Ruth Khasaya Oniang’o

Speaker
Session 1 : The future of rural areas in an urbanizing world
Session 6 : Policy options for the future

Biography

Ruth K. Oniang'o is a full professor of Food Science and Nutrition at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Her academic life spans over 20 years during which time she has produced hundreds of undergraduates and scores of both masters and Ph.D. graduates in her field. She received her first and second degrees from Washington State University in the USA and Ph.D. from University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Her research and consultation areas have included household food and nutrition security, women's nutrition, child health and community-level agro-processing in which she has published widely. She has consulted widely and serves on a number of international, regional and national boards.

She is currently executive director of Rural Outreach Program, an NGO she founded about a decade ago as a way of bringing university close to the people. The activities of the NGO are used as training ground for university students. Through the NGO, she mobilises resources to enhance rural livelihoods, particularly in her community of birth.

Ruth Oniang'o is Editor-in-Chief of a newly launched peer reviewed professional journal: African Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences which will be produced every two months.

Gabrielle Persley

Speaker
Session 4 : Frontiers of science for agriculture in the 21st century

Biography

Gabrielle Persley is a scientific advisor to several international organizations on biotechnology-related issues. She has published extensively on the issues associated with the safe and effective use of modern bioscience in agriculture and the environment. She is also a Member of the Steering Committee and advisor for Biosciences eastern and central Africa, a new centre for excellence in biosciences being established as a cooperative venture amongst the New Partnerships for Africa (NEPAD) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya.

Gabrielle Persley is the author of the study by the International Council for Science (ICSU) on New Genetics in Food and Agriculture: Genetic Discoveries-Societal Dilemmas, which reports on a major ICSU study analyzing the scientific basis for assessing the risks and benefits associated with the use of modern genetics in agriculture and the environment.

Michel Petit

Speaker
Session 2 : The future of agriculture in a globalizing world

Biography

Michel Petit served as Program Adviser at the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India and is formerly the World Bank Director for the Agriculture Research & Extension Group. Co-founder of the European Review of Agricultural Economics where he served as co-editor, he also served as President of the International Association of Agricultural Economics. Michel Petit is a Member of the Académie d’Agriculture in France. He has taught at the Institut National Agronomique in Paris and is currently a Professor at the Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen in Montpellier.

Prabhu Pingali

Moderator
Session 1 : The future of rural areas in an urbanizing world

Biography

Prabhu Pingali is the Director of the Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) for the period 2003-06. He co-chairs the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Panel's working group on Future Scenarios. Prabhu Pingali has twenty five years of experience in assessing the extent and impact of technical change in developing country agriculture in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He was Director of the Economics Program at CIMMYT, Mexico from 1996-2002, and prior to that worked at the International Rice Research Institute at Los Baños, Philippines from 1987 to 1996 as an Agricultural Economist. Prabhu Pingali has authored six books and dozens of referred journal articles and book chapters and is co-editor (with Robert Evenson and Paul Schultz) of the Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol III.

Fu Qin

Moderator
Session 6 : Policy options for the future

Biography

Fu Qin, Professor and director general at the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, received a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Beijing Agricultural University (now China Agricultural University) in 1992. He was a senior visiting scholar at Auburn University, USA in 1998 and 1999, and was a professor and dean at the college of economics and management in CAU from 2001 to 2003. He is the author of 10 books and has published more than 50 articles. He serves on many domestic committees, consultative groups and associations in the field of agricultural economics and policies. He has received numerous awards, including the first-class prize of scientific and technological progress from the Ministry of Agriculture in 1999.

Frank Rijsberman

Speaker
Session 3 : Environmental challenges to agricultural development and food security

Biography

Frank Rijsberman is the Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka since August 2000. IWMI is one of fifteen international agricultural research centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).Before coming to IWMI, he served as the Deputy Director of the World Water Vision of the World Water Council, and he is Professor at UNESCO-IHE, International Institute for Water Education (Delft, the Netherlands) and Wageningen University and Research (Wageningen, the Netherlands). Frank earned his PhD in Water Resources Planning and Management and Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, USA.

Peter Timmer

Speaker
Session 1 : The future of rural areas in an urbanizing world

Biography

Peter Timmer is a Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Global Development. He has over 35 years of experience in food and agriculture policy in Asia and is a leading research scholar in food security and agriculture issues. He served as an economic advisor on food policy and poverty alleviation to the Indonesia National Planning Agency in 1970-71, and has been a senior advisor to the World Bank on food and nutrition policy. In 1992, he was presented with the Bintang Jasa Utama (Highest Merit Star) by the Republic of Indonesia in recognition of his work in food security and poverty alleviation in that country. Peter Timmer held tenured professorships at Stanford and Cornell Universities before serving on four faculties at Harvard University. He left Harvard in 1998 to become Dean of the Graduate School of International Relations and Professor of Development Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Peter Timmer received his Ph.D, M.A., and B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.

Alberto Valdés

Speaker
Session 1 : The future of rural areas in an urbanizing world

Biography

Alberto Valdés is a Research Associate at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile. Previously he held the position of Program Director for International Trade and Food Security at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC. Alberto Valdés has published extensively, including among others: Rural Poverty In Latin America, R. López and A. Valdés Editors, 2000; Agricultural Support Policies in Transition, World Bank Technical Paper No. 470, A. Valdes Editor, July 2000; The Plundering of Agriculture in Developing Countries, by M. Schiff and A. Valdés, 1992; the Surveillance of Agricultural Price and Trade Policies series, World Bank Technical Papers, 1995; The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy, Anne Krueger, et al. 1991.

Alberto Valdés earned his PhD. in Economics from the London School of Economics, his MA in Economics from the University of Chicago and his degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile.

Judi Wakhungu

Speaker
Session 5 : Targeting and delivering research for marginal areas and marginalized people

Biography

Judi Wangalwa Wakhungu, Ph.D is the Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in Nairobi, Kenya. She was most recently Professor of Science, Technology, & Society at Penn State University where she also served as Director of the Women in the Sciences and Engineering (WISE) Institute. Prof. Wakhungu's research interests include energy resources management; energy policy and sustainable development; science, technology and development; gender issues in science and technology; and materials and development. She has published widely in these fields.

Judi Wakhungu sits on many boards and task forces nationally and internationally including, the Kenya Bureau of Standards, National Council for Science and Technology (NCST), the Global Alliance to Diversify the Engineering Force, and the Institute for Security Studies, the International Food and Agriculture Policy Council (IPC), the Lemelson Foundation, and the World Bank Consultative Group on International Science & Technology in Agriculture. She also had the distinction of being the "designated energy expert" for the United Nations Commission of Science and Technology for Development (Gender Working Group).

Judi Wakhungu received a BS in geology from St. Lawrence University in New York, a MS degree in petroleum geology from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and a Ph.D in energy resources management from Penn State University. She has held a number of energy sector positions in the civil service, industry, and higher education in Kenya. She has served as geologist in the Ministry of Energy and Regional Development, where her duties entailed exploring for geothermal energy in Kenya's Rift Valley; petroleum geologist in the National Oil Corporation of Kenya; and faculty member in the Department of Geology at the University of Nairobi. She was the Research Director of the Global Energy Policy and Planning Program of the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study (IFIAS), Toronto, Canada. She also served as the Project Leader of the Renewable Energy Technology Dissemination Project of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). She has also served as the Executive Director of the African Technology Policy Studies (ATPS) Network.

Gavin Lindsay Wall

Speaker
Session 4 : Frontiers of science for agriculture in the 21st century

Biography

Gavin Wall is the Chief of the Agricultural and Food Engineering Technologies Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations where he leads the engineering component of initiatives to add value to food and agricultural produce through product innovation, improved processing and post-harvest handling. Prior to joining FAO he was the Head of the Institute of Technology and Engineering at Massey University in New Zealand. He is an agricultural engineer by profession and has consulted for a variety of organisations in Asia and the Pacific Islands. His design experience has included development of agricultural machines as well as the design of farm waters systems. He has published a range of research outputs usually linking management of engineering systems to their design.

Robert T. Watson

Moderator
Session 5 : Targeting and delivering research for marginal areas and marginalized people
Speaker
Session 3 Environmental challenges to agricultural development and food security

Biography

Robert T. Watson, a U.S. citizen born in the U.K., is the World Bank's senior spokesperson on global warming and climate change. He joined the Bank in May 1996 as senior scientific advisor in the environment department and in July 1997 was appointed director of the same department and head of the environment sector board.

Before coming to the Bank, he was associate director for environment in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the U.S. President. Prior to joining the Clinton White House, he was director of the science division and chief scientist for the Office of Mission to Planet Earth at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Mr. Watson has played a key role in the negotiation of global environment conventions and the evolution of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Sangui Wang, Division Chief, Institute of Agricultural Economics

Speaker
Session 5 : Targeting and delivering research for marginal areas and marginalized people

Biography

Sangui Wang is the Director and Senior Researcher of the Poverty and Development Division of the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Deputy Director of the China Poverty Research Association. He has been doing research in the fields of poverty and development finance for more than ten years and has worked as a consultant for different international and bilateral development organizations including UNDP, FAO, the World Bank and ADB. He is the author of more than 70 academic papers and 4 books, mostly on topics relating to rural poverty and development finance.

Tiejun Wen, Dean, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Moderator
Session 5 : Targeting and delivering research for marginal areas and marginalized people

Biography

Tiejun Wen is Dean of the School of Agriculture & Rural Development, at the Renmin University of China in Beijing. He also holds positions as Deputy Secretary-General, China Society of Economic Reform and Deputy Secretary-General, China Macroeconomic Research Foundation, and serves as a senior consultant for the State Information Center and Research Center of Rural Economy of Ministry of Agriculture.

In China, he has worked at the central and local government levels on Policy Studies on the Current Affairs and Macro-economic and Geo-Strategy, Long Term Issues, Agriculture & Rural Development. He has done academic work on the topics of Land Rights, Processing and Market Affaires, Rural Reconstruction & Grass Roots Organization, Farmers’ Burden & Tax Reform, Financial Affaires, Urbanization & Migration, and is the Founder of “James Yan Institute of Rural Reconstruction”(NGO). Tiejun Wen has also worked as a consultant for numerous foreign and international institutions.

Xiaoquing Xu , Deputy Director General, Rural Economy Dev. Research Center

Moderator
Session 2 : The future of agriculture in a globalizing world

Zhai Huqu, President, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Moderator
Session 4 : Frontiers of science for agriculture in the 21st century

Biography

Zhai Huqu has been President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) since 2001. Between 1995 and 2001, he served as President of the Nanjing Agricultural University since.

Zhai Huqu’s work has focused on the strategic planning and organizational management and development. At the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences he worked on developing the agricultural science innovation center, the agribusiness incubation center and the international cooperation center as well as general capacity building. As the President of CAAS and Nanjing Agricultural University, Dr. Zhai is responsible for the organizational design and reform and developed guidelines for research and educational organization reform.

His major research areas include: 1) quantitative genetics and crop breeding research; 2) rice hybrid sterilized gene location and genetics; 3) capacity building for crop breeding programs; 4) and science innovation work.

Zhai Huqu has a Ph. D and MSc in Plant Genetics from the University of Birmingham, an MSc in Crop Breeding from the Nanjing Agricultural University and a BSc Major in Agronomy at College of Agriculture of Jiang Su.

Fengtong Zhang, Director General, Department of Science Technology and Technology

Speaker
Session 4 : Frontiers of science for agriculture in the 21st century

Hongyu Zhang, Director General, Department of Sectorial Policy and Law (MOA)

Speaker
Session 1 : The future of rural areas in an urbanizing world