H.E. Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri
Minister of State for Food Security, UAE
H.E. Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri
Minister of State for Advanced Sciences, UAE
Mr. Ayman Amin Sejiny
General Manager (CEO) of ICD, Saudi Arabia
H.E. Dr. Sidi Ould Tah
Director General,
Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, Sudan
Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze
Fifth President, International Fund for Agricultural Development
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, FAYODE, Nigeria
Dr. Ren Wang
Senior Vice President of the BGI Group, President, BGI Global Development, China
Dr. Suleiman Al-Herbish
Former Director General, OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), KSA
Dr. Nina Fedoroff
Emeritus Professor of Biology, Penn State University, USA
Dr. José Graziano da Silva
Eighth Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Brazil
H.E. Mohammed Mohammed Saleh
Director General,
Federal Electricity and Water Authority, UAE
Dr. Ismahane Elouafi
Director General, ICBA, UAE
H.E. Dr. Hussein Al Mahmoudi
CEO, Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park (SRTI Park), UAE
Ms. Hajbouha Zoubeir
President, Phosboucraa Foundation, Morocco
Dr. Adil Bushnak
Chairman, Bushnak Group - Saudi Arabia
Mr. Soud Ba’alawy
Chairman, Enspire, UAE
Dr. Dennis Rangi
Director General, Development, CABI-Kenya
Prof. Afaf Kamal Eldin
College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Dr. Tarifa Al Zaabi
Deputy Director General, ICBA, UAE
Dr. Jacques Wery
Deputy Director General – Research, ICARDA - Egypt
Dr. Ursula Schaefer-Preuss
Former Director General, Federal German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
H.E. Dr. Maryam Mohamed Fatma Matar
Founder and Chairperson, UAE Genetic Diseases Association – UAE
H.E. Dr. Mohammad Hossein Emadi
Permanent Representative to FAO, Chair of COAG, IR Iran
H.E. Dr. Tariq Al Gurg
Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Cares, UAE
Ms. Habiba Al Marashi
CoFounder and Chairperson, Emirates Environmental Group, UAE
H.E. Mr. Yerlan A. Baidaulet
Director General, Islamic Organisation for Food Security – Kazakhstan
Mrs. Fatiha Charradi
Vice President of Agricultural Development - Domestic Market, OCP Group – Morocco
Ms. Roula Majdalani
Director - Sustainable Development and Productivity Division, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) – Lebanon
Prof. Benildo G. de los Reyes
Bayer Crop Science Endowed Chair in Plant Genomics and Associate Department Chair for Research and Graduate Programs, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, USA
Prof. Yassir Makkawi
Professor of Chemical Engineering, American University of Sharjah (AUS) - UAE
Prof. R. Quentin Grafton
Chairholder,
UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance, Australia
Mr. Eduardo Mansur
Director, Land and Water Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Dr. Alejandro Rios Galvan
Director, Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium, UAE
Dr. P. C. Sharma
Director, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (CSSRI), India
Dr. Jennifer Ngo-Anh
SciSpacE Team Leader, Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration Programmes (HRE-RS), European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Mr. Rachid Serraj
Senior Project Officer, Delivery Manager for the Regional Initiative on Small Scale Family Farming, Regional Office in Near East and North Africa, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Egypt
Ms. Seta Tutundjian
Director of Programs, ICBA, UAE
Dr. Samuel Gameda
Senior Soil Scientist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre, Ethiopia
Dr. Salwa Karboune
Associate Dean (Research),
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
McGill University, Canada
Salma Bani
Senior Executive Program Planning, Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning - Bahrain
Dr. Javier Mateo–Sagasta
Senior Researcher, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka
Dr. Marcus Thomson
Research Scholar – Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land use and Energy (FABLE) Consortium - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) – Austria
Dr. Khalil Ammar
Principal Scientist in Hydrology/Hydrogeology and Head of Sustainable Natural Resources Management Section, ICBA, UAE
Dr. Martin Banov
President, Agricultural academy, Bulgaria
Dr. Asad Sarwar Qureshi
Senior Scientist in Water and Irrigation Management, ICBA, UAE
Ms. Jane Ininda
Associate Program Director, Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA), Kenya
Dr. Abdelbagi M. Ismail
Principal Scientist and Representative for Africa, International Rice Research Institute, Kenya
Dr. Girisha K Ganjegunte
Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
Prof. Abderrazak Bannari
Arabian Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain
Prof. Mark Tester
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ivan Ingelbrecht
Head, Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory, IAEA, Austria
Dr. Abdelaziz Hirich
Horticulture Scientist, ICBA, UAE
Dr. Babar Bajwa
Regional Director (Central West Asia), Project Leader ACIAR, CABI – Pakistan
Dr. Dionysia Angeliki Lyra
Halophyte Agronomist, ICBA, UAE
Dr. Ali Elbattay
Senior Scientist - Remote Sensing and Drones Technology, ICBA - UAE
Dr. Tong Wei
Interim Director, Desert Life Sciences Center, ICBA
Program Leader, Agricultural Genomics Center, BGI-Research, China
Dr. Ahmed Al-Busaidi
Department of Soils, Water and Agricultural Engineering, College of Agricultural & Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Dr. Salma Balazadeh
Associate professor, Leiden University - The Netherlands
Dr. Virender Kumar
Senior Scientist - Weed Science, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
Gélica Eugénio Inteca
Lecture and Deputy Director of postgraduate, research and extension, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lurio University - Mozambique
Mr. Rashyd Zaaboul
Modeler - Climate Change, ICBA, UAE
Ms. Afia Fosua Agyekum
ADRA, USA
Prof. Ashwani Pareek
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Prof. Mohsen Disher
Professor, University of Basrah College of Agriculture - Iraq
Dr. Murali Krishna Gumma
Head, GIS and Remote Sensing Lab, ICRISAT, India
Dr. Alban Echchelh
Postdoctoral research assistant, Cranfield University – United Kingdom
Dr. Atugonza L Bilaro
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), Tanzania
Dr. D. Ishankulova
Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute - Uzbekistan
Dr. Dyaa Abdou
Director, Sustainable Agricultural Development, Egypt
Dr. E. Michael Gilmont
Research Fellow, University of Oxford – United Kingdom
Dr. Eman Musa Kadhum
Chief Expert, Agricultural Academy, Bulgaria
Dr. Gengyun Zhang
Chief Scientist on Agriculture, BGI-Research, BGI - China
Dr. Katarzyna Negacz
Researcher, Wadden Academy/IVM-VU – Netherlands
Dr. Mohamed A. Dawoud
Manager, Water Resources Department, Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Muhi El-Dine Hilali
Researcher, ICARDA, Amman-Jordan
Dr. Muriel Gros-Balthazard
Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi - UAE
Dr. Rim Nefissi Ouertani
Assistant Professor, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Dr. Shashi Kumar Gupta
Principal Scientist - Pearl Millet Breeding, ICRISAT, India
Dr. Sherine Fathy Mansour
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economic Socio-Economic Division, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Yash Dang
Senior Research Fellow, University of Queensland - Australia
Mr. Bektashev Jakhongir Rakhimovich
Farm Manager, "Baxt Imkon Rivoj Chorvasi" farming entity, Uzbekistan
Prof. Abdulkadir Egal
Director, Centre of Sustainable Livelihoods of the Vaal University of Technology - South Africa
Dr. Suresh Kumar Chaudhari
NRM Division, KAB-II, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India
Dr. Habtamu Giday Gebraegziabher
Post-doctoral Fellow: Urban and Vertical Farming, ICBA, UAE
Dr. Juan Pablo Rodríguez Calle
Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, UAE
Dr. Mohammad Alnsour
Natural Resources Manager, WADI for Sustainable Ecosystem Development NGO, Jordan
Dr. Alex Ariho
CEO, African Agribusiness Incubators Network, Ghana
Dr. David Paulson
Agritech Consultant – Agrosolution, UAE
Mr. Anup Isaac
Country Director, Yellow Door Energy - UAE
Mr. Deepak Pareek
CEO and Founder, Digi Agri, India
Mr. Hans Hassle
Co-Founder, Plantagon – Sweden
Mr. Joseph Lentunyoi
Director and Founder, Laikipia Permaculture Center, Kenya
Mr. Patrick Crowley
Founder, Chapul, USA
Mr. Ronald de Ruiter
Founder, GrowArabic BV - UAE
Mrs. Alem Greiling
Founder and CEO, Nutri-Dense, Ethiopia
Ms. Cyndi Teulon
Environmental Advisor, RSK Environment, UAE
Ms. Ejezie Juliet
Farm Manager, Dozliet Anim Farms, Nigeria and Volunteer, Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network
Ms. Kata Molnar
Independent water risk and policy analyst, Hungary
Ms. Randa Habib
Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Manager- First Food Consultancy, Dubai, UAE
Ms. Rosemary Nenini
Coordinator, Twala Women’s Group, Kenya
Mr. Mohamed Aissaoui
Founder, My Farm, UAE
Mr. Abdulaziz Al Mulla
Co-Founder and CEO, Madar Farms, UAE
Mr. Yazen Al Kodmani
Operations Manager, Emirates BioFarm, UAE