

Director General
Deputy Director General - Research
Climate Change Advisor
Special Advisor to the Director General
Administrative Officer to the Director General
Senior Scientist for Seed Systems, International Nurseries and Seed Health and Regional Coordinator APRP
Head of the Food Legume Research Platform (FLRP) of ICARDA and Regional Coordinator of the ICARDA South Asia and China Regional Program
Lebanon, Jordan & Palestine Country Manager
Head of Government Liaison
Senior Scientist Breeder, Biotechnologist/ Country Coordinator – Egypt
Research Team Leader - Genetic Resources, conservation, characterization, and use (GRS)/ Country Coordinator - Morocco
Rangeland Ecology and Management Specialist/Country Coordinator - Tunisia
Senior Scientist - Sustainable Land Management/Country Coordinator - Uzbekistan
Sudan Office Country Manager
Country Coordinator - Turkey
Food and Feed Processing Scientist/Country Coordinator - Syria
Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Breeder/Country Coordinator - Ethiopia
Scientist – Seed System Specialist/Country Coordinator - Pakistan
The Breeding Team develop new crop varieties that offer higher, and better-quality yields through improved tolerance and resistance to diseases, insect pests, drought, heat, cold, parasitic weeds, and other stress factors. ICARDA’s climate-smart crops are developed alongside National Agricultural Research Systems country partners and follow CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform guidelines.
Research Team Leader - Breeding and Scaling Improved Varieties of dryland cereals and pulses
Associate Scientist - Biometrics
Senior Scientist - Barley Breeder
Senior Scientist, Biotechnology
Country Coordinator - Turkey
Principal Scientist - Spring Bread Wheat Breeder
Principal Investigator Genetic Innovation
Legume Breeder
Principal Scientist - Plant Pathologist
Senior Scientist Breeder, Biotechnologist/ Country Coordinator – Egypt
Head of the Food Legume Research Platform (FLRP) of ICARDA and Regional Coordinator of the ICARDA South Asia and China Regional Program
Pre-Breeding and Physiology Scientist
Chickpea Research Associate/BCI Farm Coordinator in Terbol
Coordinator - Biotechnology and Plant Cell Culture
Research Team Administrator, Project Monitoring, and Knowledge Management Assistant
Research Associate – Genomic Selection of Durum Wheat
The GRS Team plays a crucial global role in conservation and use of dryland genetic resources, making ICARDA a center of excellence for capacity building and technical support on all aspects related to conservation and sustainable use of dryland agro-biodiversity. Core activities include developing and applying best practices for acquisition, pre-breeding, regeneration, conservation, distribution and documentation of genetic resources.
Research Team Leader - Genetic Resources, conservation, characterization, and use (GRS)/ Country Coordinator - Morocco
Genebank Manager – Senior Scientist
Senior Scientist - Genebank Manager
Post-Doctoral Fellow - Pre-breeder for cereals
The SINH aims at developing a functional pluralistic and inclusive seed system operating across ‘open-borders’ for easy movement of varieties and seeds. It is involved in diverse and broad range of activities that collectively addresses seed system constraints working in an integrated holistic approach with emphasis on emerging challenges in seed sector development.
Research Team Leader - Seed systems, International Nurseries and seed Health
Scientist – Seed System Specialist/Country Coordinator - Pakistan
Senior Scientist for Seed Systems, International Nurseries and Seed Health and Regional Coordinator APRP
Head of ICARDA Seed Health Laboratory/Plant Virologist
The SWA Team conducts research to build resilience and sustainably improve water productivity of rainfed and irrigated production systems in dry areas. We work to diversify and intensify these systems in the face of changing climate by combining soil health management techniques, water-saving technologies, and agronomic practices into contextualized solutions for impact at scale.
Research Team Leader - Soils, Waters and Agronomy
Researcher for Field Measurements and Package of Practices Reporting
Systems Cropping Agronomist - Joint Researcher - INRA
Senior Scientist - Dryland Agronomy
Research Associate - Irrigation and Water
Training Instructor
Senior Research Assistant - Land and Water Management
Field Technician - Marchouch Station
Activities Coordinator Officer
Field Senior Research Technician
Research Associate - Agronomist
Senior Scientist - Dryland Farming
Consultant - Project Facilitator-SWA
Project Facilitator (Precision Farming)
Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP) is an economically self-sustainable approach to protect pollinators in agricultural land. It builds on amelioration of agricultural land by marketable habitat enhancement plants, nesting support for wild pollinators and cross-sector policies. FAP increases productivity per surface and is scalable also in low- and middle-income countries.
Senior Research Assistant - Farming and Alternative Pollinators
The Resilient Agro-Silvo-Pastoral Systems (RASP) team develops integrated innovation packages for livestock-based systems in low rainfall areas to improve livelihoods and increase system resilience. The team conducts research related to small ruminant (sheep and goats) genetics, breeding, feeding and health, dryland forages, rangeland ecology and management and ecosystem restoration.
Research Team Leader - Resilient Agrosilvopastoral Systems (RASP) and Social Economy and Policy Research (SEP)
Research Associate - Small Ruminant Breeder/Livestock Economist
Research Team Leader of Rangeland Ecology and Forages
Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Breeder/Country Coordinator - Ethiopia
Social Sciences Specialist
Senior Small Ruminant (SR) Nutritionist
Senior Scientist - Sustainable Land Management/Country Coordinator - Uzbekistan
Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Physiology and management
Food and Feed Processing Scientist/Country Coordinator - Syria
Research Associate - Spatio-temporal assessment
Agricultural Innovation Specialist
Associate Scientist - Forage Agronomist
Research Management Coordinator
Senior Scientist - Small Ruminant Genomics
Research Team Administrator
Scientist - Soil and Water Conservation Modeling
Rangeland Ecology and Management Specialist/Country Coordinator - Tunisia
Research Associate - Rangeland Landscape Ecology
The Social, Economy and Policy (SEP) Team plays a crucial role in analyzing the adoption of ICARDA’s innovations and their impact on poverty alleviation, food security, systems resilience and social inclusiveness. The team also works on innovative solutions for more inclusive markets and value chains, natural resource management governance, context-sensitive targeting and scaling of sustainable land and livestock management options and gender transformative approaches.
Research Team Leader - Resilient Agrosilvopastoral Systems (RASP) and Social Economy and Policy Research (SEP)
Principal Agricultural Economist
Principal Natural Resources Economist
Principal Agricultural Market Economist
Principal Agricultural Economist (Economic Modeling)
Senior Gender Scientist
Agricultural Livelihood Systems Expert
Research Associate – Economics and Participatory Methods
Research Officer II - ILRI/ICARDA
Senior Research Assistant - Gender Equality, Inclusion and Women's Empowerment
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Gender Research
Geographer - CIRAD
The GeoAgro Team combines geoinformatics, big data, climate change modelling, mapping farming systems dynamics, and citizen science, to support and accelerate research for development for sustainable agroecosystem solutions that ensure food, nutrition, and ecological security and better livelihoods in the dry areas.
Senior Climate Scientist and Systems Modeler
GIS Lab Manager
Meteorological Observer
ICARDA’s Capacity Development Unit (CDU) ensures that our innovations are deployed by the communities we work with, and helps national and international organizations and farmers build the capacity to manage their goals. The CDU works alongside national ministries and local authorities, NGOs, global universities, National Agricultural Research Systems, and the private sector.
Team Leader - Capacity Development Unit
Technical Training Officer
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) platform facilitates faster and more informed decision-making for organizations. Designed for input, archiving, extraction, and sharing of a broad range of data, knowledge, and ideas MEL helps stakeholders to plan, manage, monitor, evaluate, report, and share activities and results.
Research Team Leader - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and CIP-Program Management Officer
MEL Team Coordinator
MEL-LEG Administrative Assistant
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer
Technologies Systemization Officer
Data Management Specialist
MELIA Officer
Knowledge Management Coordinator
MEL and Knowledge Management Officer
Project and Knowledge Curation Officer
Consultant - Knowledge Management Assistant
Knowledge Management Officer
MEL Platform Manager
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