The ITPGRFA: An Interview with Mr Kent Nnadozie (Part I)
09/01/2019
Mr Kent Nnadozie, the Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) discusses the treaty, which has direct impacts on food and agriculture globally, in this two-part interview.
Over the last decade, Mr Nnadozie has worked both with the ITPGRFA and the FAO Commission for Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, on legal and policy matters, as well as intergovernmental processes. Before his appointment as Secretary, he served as Senior Officer of the ITPGRFA, overseeing various technical areas of the programme of work of the Secretariat. He received his PhD in Law from McGill University, Canada and MBA from Lagos Business School, Nigeria.