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Dr. Yigezu Atnafe Yigezu is an agricultural economist with a focus on international development. He has research interest and experience in various areas of agricultural development, including production economics, technology adoption, out...

Dr. Majd Jamal joined ICARDA in 2009, and since 2018 has served as the head of government liaison. Jamal also has broad expertise in integrated pest management. He is a member and former president of the Advisory Council of the Arab Society for...

Stefanie Christmann has worked on environmental governance in various positions. She joined ICARDA in 2009, first in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and then from 2015 onwards, in Morocco. Dr. Christmann has developed several economically self-sustaining...

Dr. Shiv Kumar Agrawal is ICARDA’s regional coordinator for South Asia and China and head of the Food Legumes Program, which aims to deliver improved germplasm of lentil, kabuli chickpea, faba bean, and grass pea to national partners in South...

Dr. Mounir Louhaichi has more than 25 years of experience in rangeland ecology and management, including over 10 years conducting research on alternative technologies for improved natural resource management. is research focuses on documenting...

Dr. Fouad Maalouf joined ICARDA as a senior scientist in 2007. His current research focuses on fava bean improvement. He has supervised 19 students on different aspects of fava bean breeding, and has authored or co-authored more than 42 research...

Layal Atassi joined ICARDA’s Geoinformatics Unit in 2006, applying GIS and remote sensing domain methods and models for watershed characterization, climate change, agro-ecosystems, conservation agriculture, and production environment descriptors...

Tawffiq Istanbuli is an agronomist with more than a decade of experience in rural engineering and crop breeding. In 2009, he joined ICARDA as a chickpea research associate in Aleppo, Syria, and in 2015 began coordinating ICARDA’s Biodiversity...