Country

Name

Title

Contact

AFGHANISTAN

(Mr) Nasratullah BAKHTANI

Head of M& E Directorate; Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock

Email

ALBANIA

(Ms) Elam VATHI

Specialist at the Sector of European Integration and International Cooperation; Directorate of European Integration, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Administration

Email

ALGERIA

(M.) Abdelhamid HEMDANI

Sous-directeur chargé de la Protection des Patrimoines

Email

ANGOLA

(M.) Pedro MOÇAMBIQUE

Director of the Plant Genetics Ressources National Centre

Email

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

(Ms) Maudvere BRADFORD

Senior Research Officer

Email

ARGENTINA

(Ms) Patricia GADALETA

Dirección de Producciones Sostenibles, Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca, Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca

Email

ARMENIA

(Ms) Kristine PETROSYAN

Scientist; Scientific Center of Vegetables, Melon and Industrial Crops; Ministry of Agriculture

Email or Email

AUSTRALIA

(Mr) Ryan WILSON

Director, Agricultural Cooperation, Capability and Standards

Email

AUSTRIA

(Mr) Phillip JUDEX

Director, International Agricultural and Trade Policy Division; Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management

Email

AZERBAIJAN

(Mr) Zyenal AKPAROV

Head of National Scientific-Technical Committee;
Director of the Genetic Resources Institute, National Academy of Sciences

Email

BAHAMAS

(Mr) Kenneth RICHARDSON

Assistant Director of Agriculture; Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources

Email

BAHRAIN

(Mr) Abdel-Mawgoud R. ISMAIL

Email

BANGLADESH

(Mr) Aziz Zilani CHOWDHURY

Member-Director (Crops), Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council

Email or Email

BELARUS

(Mr) Fiodar PRYVALAU

Director General of the Republican Unitary Enterprise; Research and Practical Center of National Academy of Sciences for Arable Farming

Email

BELGIUM

(Mr) Koen WELLEMANS

Government of Flanders, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Policy Coordination and Environment Division, Environment Unit

Email

BELIZE

(Mr) Andrew HARRISON

Chief Agriculture Officer; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, the Environment and Sustainable Development and Immigration

Email

BENIN

(M.) Djima ALY

Ingénieur Agronome-Sélectionneur, Spécialiste des semences et Point Focal National des Ressources Phytogénetiques

Email or Email

BHUTAN

(Ms) Sangay DEMA

Principal Biodiversity Officer; National Biodiversity Centre; Ministry of Agriculture and Forests; Serbithang, Thimphu, Bhutan

Email

BOLIVIA (Plurinational State of)

(Ms) Marcela VILELA PORCEL

Dependiente del Viceministerio de Desarrollo Rural y Agropecuario

Email

BOTSWANA

(Ms) Kebabonye MOLEFHI

Chief Agricultural Economist; Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security

Email

BRAZIL

(Mr) Marcelo Henrique AGUIAR DE FREITAS

Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply

Email or Email

BURKINA FASO

(M.) Widegnoma Jean de Dieu NITIEMA

Directeur de la vulgarisation et de la Recherche-développement (DVRD); Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Sécurité alimentaire

Email

BURUNDI

(Mme) Claudine KAMARIZA

Conseillère au Cabinet du Ministre de l'Agriculture et de l'Elevage

Email

CABO VERDE

(Ms) Nora Helena RAMOS SILVA

Chercheur à l'Institut National de la Recherche et Développement Agricole (INIDA)

Email

CAMBODIA

(Mr) Hean VANHAN

Deputy Director General, General Directorate of Agriculture; Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Email

CAMEROON

(M.) Rabelais YANKAM NJONOU

Inspecteur général du Développement rural

CANADA

(Mr) Axel DIEDERICHSEN

Curator, Research Scientist, National Plant Germplasm, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Email

CHAD

(Mr) Oumar Mahamat HASSAN

Cadre au Ministere de I' Agriculture et de I'Environnement

Email

CHILE

(Sra.) Teresa AGÜERO TEARE

Encargada asuntos ambientales, recursos genéticos y bioseguridad, Oficina de Estudios y Politicas Agrarias-Odepa

Email

COLOMBIA

(Sra.) Paula Andrea ROJAS GUTIERREZ

(Sr.) César Augusto CORREDOR VELANDIA

Coordinadora de Recursos Genéticos, Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible

Director de Innovación, Desarrollo Tecnológico y Protección Sanitaria; Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural

Email

Email

COOK ISLANDS

(Mr) William WIGMORE

Director of Crops Research and Development; Ministry of Agriculture

Email

COSTA RICA

(Ms) Angela GONZÁLEZ GRAU

Directora Ejecutiva de la Oficina Técnica de la Comisión Nacional para la Gestión de la Biodiversidad (CONAGEBIO), Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía

Email

COTE D'IVOIRE

(M.) Kouadio ESSO

Sous-directeur de la Recherche Agricole; Ministère de l'Agriculture et du Développement Rural

Email

CROATIA

(Ms) Snježana ŠPANJOL

Vice-Minister
Ministry of Agriculture

Email

CYPRUS

(Mr) Christos CHRISTOU

Agricultural Officer
Department of Agriculture

Email

CZECHIA

(Mr) Vlastimil ZEDEK

Head, Unit of Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Strategies, Ministry of Agriculture

Email

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

(Mme) Brigitte KAJINGA MUTOMBO

Chef de Division Suivi et Evaluation au Service de Quarantaine
Animale et Végétale;
Coordonnatrice du Projet Renforcement des capacités des pays africains pour Ia conservation et l'utilisation durable des ressources génétiques animales en Afrique

Email

DENMARK

(Ms) Malene Karup OLESEN

(Ms) Birgitte LUND

Head of Section; Centre for Agriculture, Department of Environment and Biodiversity

Scientific Adviser; Centre for Agriculture, Department of Environment and Biodiversity

Email

Email

ECUADOR

(Sr) César TAPIA

Responsible del Departamento Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos; Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias

Email

EGYPT

(Ms) Neveeen A. Hassan

Senior, In vitro Storage and Cryopreservation Lab. National Genebank; Agriculture Research Center Ministery of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

Email

EL SALVADOR

(Ms) Sonia Edith SOLORZANO

Técnico de la Unidad de Tecnología de Semilla de CENTA

Email

ESTONIA

(Ms) Liina VAHER

Senior Officer, Nature Conservation Department; Ministry of the Environment

Email

ESWATINI

(Mr) Thembinkosi GUMEDZE

Manager, National Plant Genetic Resources Centre

Email

ETHIOPIA

(Mr) Tamene YOHANNES

Director, Crop and Horticulture Biodiversity Directorate; Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI)

Email

FIJI

(Mr) Savenaca CUQUMA

Senior Research Officer, Ministry of Agriculture

Email

FINLAND

(Ms) Tuula PEHU

Ministerial Adviser, Unit for Natural Resources and Water Management; Department of Natural Resources; Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Email

FRANCE

(M.) Jean LANOTTE

Ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation/DGPE

Email or Email

GABON

(M.) Gislin MBYE NTOMA

Economiste du Développmenet Durable, Conseiller chargé du Capital Natel; Ministère de l'agriculture et de l'entreprenariat agricole

Email

GAMBIA (THE)

(Mr) Ousainou TOURAY

Deputy Director, Department of Parks and Wildlife Management; Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Water Resources, and Parks and Wildlife

Email

GEORGIA

(Mr) Levan UJMAJURIDZE

Director, Scientific Research Center of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture

Email

GERMANY

(Ms) Johanna WIDER

Information and Coordination Centre for Biological Diversity; Federal Office for Agriculture and Food

Email

GREECE

(Ms) Maria PAPAEFTHIMIOU

Administrator - Scientific Officer, Directorate of Spatial Planning, Environment and Climate Change; Ministry of Rural Development and Food

Email

GRENADA

(Ms) Simone LEWIS

Sr Environmental Officer/CBD Secondary Focal Point, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

Email or

Email

GUATEMALA

(Mr) César AZURDIA

Asesor de Evaluación y Conservación de la Diversidad Biológica; Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas

Email

GUINEA

(Mr) Boubacar DIALLO

Docteur en Sciences Zootechniques; Ministère de l’Elevage et des Productions Animales

Email

GUINEA-BISSAU

(M.) Lourenco Monteiro CARVALHO DE ABREU

Entomologiste (Master of Science); Ministère de l'Agriculture

Email

GUYANA

(Mr) Mahendra PERSAUD

Plant Breeder/Chief Scientist; Guyana Rice Development Board

Email

HUNGARY

(Ms) Nóra SANOCKINÉ VÉGH

FAO Coordinator, Department of EU and FAO Affairs; Ministry of Agriculture

Email

INDONESIA

(Mr) Ir. MASTUR

Director; Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resource Research and Development

Email or Email

IRAQ

(Mr) Sahar AL-BAYATTI

National Coordinator for the Management of Animal Genetic Resources; AGRU-SCARS-MOA

Email

IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)

(Mr) Rasoul ZARE

Vice-President, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)

Email

IRELAND

(Ms) Cara MACAODHAIN

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Email

ITALY

(Mr) Davide NERI

Director, Centro di Ricerca per la Frutticultura del CREA (CREA-FRU)

Email

JAMAICA

(Mrs) Carla DOUGLAS

Senior Research Director, Research and Development Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

Email

JORDAN

(Mr) Khaled ABULAILA

Director of Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, National Agricultural Research Center (NARC)

Email or Email

KENYA

(Mr) Desterio Ondieki NYAMONGO

Senior Principal Research Officer and Director, Genetic Resources Research Institute; Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization

Email or email

KUWAIT

(Mr) Salah Mudhi AL-MUDHI

Director General
Environment Public Authority

Email

KYRGYZSTAN

(Mr) Bayalin BAITEMIROV

Director State Breeding Station of the Ministry

Email

LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

(Ms) Chay BOUNPHANOUSAY

Director General; National Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development Research Institute (NAFRI); Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Email

LEBANON

(Ms) Lamis CHALAK

Head of the National Committee for Plant Genetic Resources;Head of Plant Production Department
Biotechnology and Plant Genetic Resources;Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Lebanese University

Email

MADAGASCAR

(M.) Siméon RAKOTOMAMONJY

Chercheur, Responsable du service Programmation et Suivi-Evaluation de la Direction Scientifique du FOFIFA

Email

MALAWI

(M.) Lawrent PUNGULANI

Curator, Malawi Plant Genetic Resource Center

Email or Email

MALAYSIA

(Ms) Rosliza binti JALULI

Deputy Director, Agrobiodiversity Resource Utilization Programme, Agrobiodiversity and Environment Research Centre, Malaysia Agriculture Research and Development Institute

Email

MALDIVES

(Ms) Shafia AMINATH

Director General, Agriculture and Forestry Division; Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture

Email

MALI

(M.) Modibo SYLLA

Directeur de Recherche, Coordinateur Scientifique, Institut d'Economie Rurale

Email

MALTA

(Mr) Louis John FRESTA

Principal Scientific Officer, Plant Protection Directorate, Plant Biotechnology Centre

Email

MARSHALL ISLANDS

(Mr) Henry CAPELLE

Chief of Agriculture and Quarantine; Ministry of Resources and Development

Email

MAURITANIA

(M.) Sidi Mahmoud Ould SIDI

Conseiller technique du Ministre du Développement

Email

MAURITIUS

(Mr) Rajen BAHADOOR

Chief Agricultural Planning Officer; Agricultural Policy Analysis Unit

Email or Email

MEXICO

(Mr) Rafael AMBRIZ CERVANTES

Encargado del Despacho de los Asuntos del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP)

Email

MONGOLIA

(Ms) Erdenejargal TUMURBAATAR

Head of International Cooperation Division; Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Email or Email

MOROCCO

(M.) Chaouki ALFAIZ

Chef du Département de'Amélioration et de la Conservation des Ressources Génétiques à la Division Scientifique de l'INRA

Email

NAMIBIA

(Mr) Filemon N. SHINDUME

Agricultural Scientific Officer

Email

NAURU

(Mr) Sadikumar PARAVANOOR

(Ms) Marissa COOK

Acting Secretary CIE

Assistant Director for Agriculture

Email or Email

NEPAL

(Mr) Lekha Nath ACHARYA

Joint Secretary - Food Security, Agri. Business Promotion and Environment Division; Ministry of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives

Email

NETHERLANDS

(Mr) Martin BRINK

Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands; Wageningen University and Research Centre

Email

NEW ZEALAND

(Mr) Peter BELLINGHAM

Plant Ecologist, Portfolio Leader, Measuring Biodiversity Change, Landcare Research

Email

NICARAGUA

(Mr) Bosco CASTILLO

Coordinador, Sistema Nacional de Producción, Consumo y Comercio

Email

NIGER

(Mr) Maman Mourtala ZAKARI ISSA

Chercheur à l'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN)

Email

NIGERIA

(Mr) Amin Muhammed BABANDI

Director, Federal Department of Agriculture; Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Email

NIUE

(Mr) Poimatagi OKESENE

Senior Technical Project Manager, Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries; Ministry of Natural Resources

Email

NORWAY

(Ms) Svanhild Isabelle BATTA TORHEIM

Senior Advisor
Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Email

OMAN

(Mr) Khair Tuwair AL-BUSAIDI

Director, Plant Production Research Center

Email

PAKISTAN

(Mr) Mustafa SAJID

Director, Plant Genetic Resources Institute (PGRI), NARC/PARC

Email

PALAU

(Ms) Aurora GABERTAN DEL ROSARIO

Researcher, Palau Community College

Email

PANAMA

(Mr) Axel VILLALOBOS

Director General, Instituto de Investigación Agropecuaria de Panamá

Email

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

(Mr) Brown KONABE

Director, Food Security Branch; Department of Agriculture and Livestock

Email

PARAGUAY

(Mr) Víctor SANTANDER

(Mr) Luis Enrique ROBLEDO

Director de Cooperación Internacional; Instituto Paraguayo de Tecnología Agraria

Ingeniero Agrónomo; Instituto Paraguayo de Tecnología Agraria

Email

Email

PERU

(Mr) Carlos Alberto AMASIFUEN GUERRA

Director de la Subdirección de Recursos Genéticos, Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria (INIA)

Email

PHILIPPINES

(Mr) Segfredo R. SERRANO

Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Regulations; Department of Agriculture

Email or Email

PORTUGAL

(Mr) Benvindo Martins MAÇÃS

Diretor da Unidade Estratégica de Investigação e Serviços de Biotecnologia e Recursos Genéticos

Email

QATAR

(Mr) Hamed Sakit AL SHAMMARI

Assistant Director, Agriculture Research Department; Ministry of Municipality and Environment

Email

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

(Mr) Chang-yeon CHO

Researcher, Animal Genetic Resources Center; National Institute of Animal Science, Rural Development Administration

Email

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

(Mr) Iurie SENIC

(Mr) Mihail SUVAC

Head of Division of the ecological production and origin products of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry

Head of department for policies and quality regulations of plant products

Email or Email

RWANDA

(Mr) Damascene NDAYAMBAJE

Head of Forestry Program, Rwanda Agriculture Board

Email

SAINT LUCIA

(Mr) George SMALL

Ministry of Agriculture, Food Production, Fisheries, Cooperatives and Rural Development; Extension and Advisory Services

Email or Email

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

(Mr) Rohan MCDONALD

Agricultural Officer/Biotechnician

Email

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

(Mr) Nilton Garido SOUSA PONTE

Ingénieur agronome du Ministère de l'agriculture, pêches et du développement rural

Email

SAUDI ARABIA

(Mr) Ahmad Khalaf AL SHAMARI

Director of the Plant Gene Bank, National Centre on Agricultural and Animal Resources

Email or Email

SENEGAL

(M.) Mamadou Lamine MAR

Ingénieur des Travaux de la Statistique
Direction de l'Analyse, de la Prévision et des Statistiques Agricoles (DAPSA)

Email

SEYCHELLES

(Mr) Keven NANCY

Principal Officer (Director)
Research and Development Section - Seychelles Agricultural Agency

Email

SIERRA LEONE

(Mr) William BANGURA

Director of Forestry; Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security

Email or Email

SLOVAKIA

(Ms) Daniela BENEDIKOVÁ

Gene Bank of the Slovak Republic - Plant Production Research Center

Email

SLOVENIA

(Ms) Joži Jerman CVELBAR

Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment; Agriculture Directorate

Email

SOLOMON ISLANDS

(Ms) Helen TSATSIA

Deputy Director, Agriculture Research and Development Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock

Email

SRI LANKA

(Mr) Athula LIYANAGE

Assistant Director of Agriculture (Agriculture Research); Plant Genetic Resource Centre

Email

SUDAN

(Ms) Afaf ELGOZOULI

Director, Quality Control and Export Development Unit; Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation

Email or Email

SURINAME

(Ms) Sunita BIPAT

Head of the Division Experimental Gardens
Ministry of Agriculture

Email

SWEDEN

(Mr) Jens WEIBULL

Senior Officer, Swedish Board of Agriculture; Plant and Control Department; Plant Regulations Unit

Email

SWITZERLAND

(M.) Alwin KOPŠE

Responsible du secteur, Secteur Affaires internationales et sécurité alimentaire; Office fédéral de l'agriculture (OFAG)

Email

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

(Ms) Majda MOFLEH

Director General; General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research

Email

TAJIKISTAN

(Ms) Lola UMAROVA

Chief Specialist of the MoA Department for agrarian policy and monitoring of food security

Email

THAILAND

(Ms) Khanitha WONGWATHANARAT

(Ms) Duangden SRIPOTAR

Senior Expert in Plant Genetic Resources Conservation; Department of Agriculture

Senior Agricultural Research Specialist, Plant Varieties Protection Office; Department of Agriculture

Email

Email

TOGO

(Mr) Koffi KOMBATE

Point Focal Environnement, Ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Elevage et de la Pêche, Institut Togolais de Recherche Agronomique

Email

TONGA

(Ms) Leody VAINIKOLO

Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Head of Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Forests and Fisheries

Email

TURKEY

(Ms) Naciye ÇAKIR

(Ms) Havva Merve YILMAZ

Coordinator for the Working Group on Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM)

Agricultural Engineer, Working Group on Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM)

Email or Email

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

(Ms) Fatima Obaid AL KALBANI

Engineer; Ministry of Environment and Water

Email

UNITED KINGDOM

(Ms) Sarah CUNNINGHAM

Genetic Resources Team; Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Email

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

(Ms) Margaret Jonathan MOLLEL

Principal Research Scientist and Curator; National Plant Genetic Resource Center (NPGRC)

Email

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

(Ms) Mindy SELMAN

Senior Analyst, Office Environmental Markets, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Email

VANUATU

(Mr) Tekon Timothy TUMUKON

Director of Biosecurity;
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity

Email

VENEZUELA (Bolivarian Republic of)

(Ms) Delis PEREZ

Gerente de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica del INIA

Email

VIET NAM

(Mr) La Tuan NGHIA

Director General, Plant Resource Research Center; Viet Nam Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Email

YEMEN

(Mr) Maeen Ali Ahmed ALJARMOUZI

Director General, National Genetic Resource Centre

Email

ZAMBIA

(Mr) Dickson NG'UNI

Principal Agricultural Research Officer, Head of the National Plant Genetic Resources Centre

Email

ZIMBABWE

(Mr) Kudzai KUSENA

Curator, Genetic Resources and Biotechnology Institute

Email