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. 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...
Head of the Food Legume Research Platform (FLRP) of ICARDA and Regional Coordinator of the ICARDA South Asia and China Regional Program
Shiv Kumar Agrawal
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...
Research Team Leader of Rangeland Ecology and Forages
Mounir Louhaichi
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...
Chickpea Research Associate/BCI Farm Coordinator in Terbol
Tawffiq Istanbuli
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...
Research Team Leader - Resilient Agrosilvopastoral Systems (RASP) and Social Economy and Policy Research (SEP)
Barbara Ann Rischkowsky
Dr. Barbara Rischkowsky is program director of ICARDA’s Resilient Agricultural Livelihood Systems Research Program. She is a livestock scientist with experience in production systems analysis and the development of technological and...
