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Dr. Jane Wamatu has over 20 years of research, rural development, and teaching experience in various national and international research and development organizations. Currently, she is an associate scientist and small ruminant nutritionist at...

Dr. Vinay Nangia is a Research Team Leader - Soil, Water, and Agronomy at ICARDA, an adjunct faculty at the Texas A&M University (USA), and a visiting professor at Tottori University (Japan). Dr. Nangia is an Advisory Board Member of Global...

Dr. Mesut Keser is a wheat breeder who specializes in winter and facultative wheat. Before joining ICARDA, he worked with Turkey’s national agricultural research system, where his team developed 19 cultivars (14 bread wheat, three durum wheat...

Dr. Wuletaw Tadesse Degu leads the spring bread wheat breeding program at ICARDA. Before joining the Center in 2010 he worked at CIMMYT as a postdoctoral wheat breeder and in the Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute as a crop breeder. Dr...

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...