Chair
Professor David E. Bell
Centre for Population and Development Studies
Harvard University
9 Bow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Members
Dr. Inder Pal Abrol
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road
Krishi Bhavan
New Delhi 110 001, India.
Professor Lowell S. Hardin
Department of Agricultural Economics
Purdue University
West Lafayette
Indiana 47907, USA.
Professor Chukichi Kaneda
Faculty of Agriculture
Kobe University
Rokkodai 1-1
Kobe 657, Japan.
Dr. Ammar Siamwalla
Thailand Development Research Institute
Rajapak Building
163 Asoke Road
Bangkok 10110, Thailand.
Dr. Julie A.C. Virgo
73 East Elm Street
Suite 11A
Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Professor Robert W. Willey
Overseas Development Group
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ, England.
Professor Shi-Mai Zeng
101, Apt. 27
Beijing Agricultural University
100094 Beijing, China.
Resource Persons
Dr. Don Plucknett
Science Adviser
CGIAR Secretariat
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20433, USA.
Dr. Selcuk Ozgediz
Management Adviser
CGIAR Secretariat
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20433, USA.
Dr. Amir Kassam (Panel Secretary)
Senior Agricultural Research Officer
TAC Secretariat
Research and Technology
Development Division, FAO
Via delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy.
Name: David E. Bell (USA)
Position: Professor of Population Sciences and International Health, Emeritus, Harvard University.
Education: B.A., Pomona College (1939); M.A. Economics, Harvard University (1941).
Expertise: Economics, Population Sciences, Management.
Experience: 1945-1947: US Budget Bureau; 1947-1951: US White House Office; 1951-1953: Administrative Assistant to President Truman; 1954-57: Field Supervisor, Harvard Advisory Group to Planning Board, Government of Pakistan; 1957-1961: Lecturer in Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; 1961-62: Director, US Budget Bureau; 1962-66: Administrator, USAID; 1966-81: Vice President (International Activities), Ford Foundation; Since 1981: Professor of Population Sciences and International Health, Harvard University, Emeritus since 1988.
Name: Inder Pal Abrol (India)
Position: Deputy Director General (Soils Agronomy, Agroforestry), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi.
Education: B.Sc. Chemistry and Biology, Punjab University (1957); Ph.D. Soil Science, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (1962).
Expertise: (Resource Management, Crop, Soil and Water Management, Agroforestry).
Experience: 1962-63: Post-doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel; 1963-69: Soil Physicist/Associate Professor, Punjab Agricultural University, Hissar; 1969-82: Head, Division of Soils and Agronomy, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana; 1982-86: Director, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal; Since 1986: present position. Chairman Sub-Commission on Salt-Affected Soils, International Society of Soil Science (1982-86). Chairman, Soil Technology Commission, International Society of Soil Science (1986-90). President, Indian Society of Soil Science (1990-92). Recipient of several national and international awards for outstanding research contributions.
Name: Chukichi Kaneda (Japan)
Position: Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University, Japan.
Education: B.S., (1955), Ph.D. (1983), University of Tokyo.
Expertise: Rice Breeding, Forage Breeding and Tropical Agriculture.
Experience: 1955-63: Researcher, Forage Breeding; 1963-68: Researcher, Rice Breeding, Hokuriku Agricultural Experiment Station; 1968-72: Visiting Assistant Scientist, IRRI; 1972-73: Senior Researcher, Tropical Agricultural Research Centre (TARC); 1973-82: Chief, Rice Breeding Method Laboratory, Central Agriculture Experiment Station; 1982-85: Research Counsellor, Research Council Secretariat, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; 1985-86: Head, Dept. Summer Crop Sciences, National Agric. Res. Centre (NARC); 1986-88: Research Coordinator General (NARC); 1988-89: Director General, Tropical Agriculture Research Centre (TARC); 1989-91: Director General, NARC; Since 1991: Present position. Member of the CIAT Board of Trustees.
Name: Lowell S. Hardin (USA)
Position: Professor Emeritus and Assistant Director of International Programmes, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Education: B.S. Agriculture, Purdue University (1939); Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, Cornell University (1943).
Expertise: International Research Management and Agricultural Economics.
Experience: Reared on general livestock farm; 1939: Managing Editor, 'Purdue Exponent', daily student publication; 1939-43: Assistant, Cornell University; 1943-44: Assistant Director, National Agricultural Work Simplification Project and Instructor, Purdue University, 1944-49: Assistant, Associate Professor, 1950-53: Professor, 1953-65: Head of Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University; 1965-81: Senior Agriculturalist, Office of Vice-President, International Division, Ford Foundation. Has been closely associated with the CGIAR System for over 25 years. Served as a founding trustee of CIMMYT, CIAT, IFPRI, ICARDA, ISNAR and Winrock International Institute for Agriculture. Chairman of External Management Reviews of ILCA (1986), IRRI (1987) and CIP (1989), and Resource Person to IFPRI Review Panel (1990).
Name: Robert W. Willey (UK)
Position: Professorial Fellow, Overseas Development Group, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Special Professor in Agronomy, University of Nottingham.
Education: B.Sc. Agriculture, University of Nottingham (1960); Ph.D., University of Leeds (1965); D.Sc., University of Nottingham (1991).
Expertise: Agronomy, Cropping Systems.
Experience: University positions: 1960-64: University of Leeds; 1965-69 and 1973-76: University of Reading; 1969-73: Makerere University, Uganda; 1982-83: Cornell University (Sabbatical); 1984-90: University of East Anglia (Professor of Development Studies - Natural Resources). Research positions: 1976-84: Principal Agronomist, ICRISAT. Developing country experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Since 1988: Coordinator on ODA-funded Eastern India Rainfed Farming Project.
Name: Shi-Mai Zeng (China)
Position: Professor and Chair, Department of Plant Protection, Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Education: B.Sc., Agricultural College, Beijing University (1948).
Expertise: Plant Protection, Plant Epidemiology, Disease Resistance.
Experience: 1948-53: Assistant Lecturer, 1953-60: Lecturer, 1960-80: Associate Professor, 1980-87: Professor and Head, Department of Plant Protection, Beijing Agricultural University; 1987-90: Director, Research Institute of Pest Management, BAU; Since 1990: Present position. Vice-President of Chinese Society of Plant Protection, and Member of Epidemiology Committee of the International Society of Plant Pathology (since 1983). Author of ten books and over sixty publications on plant diseases.
Name: Julie A.C. Virgo (Australia)
Position: Executive Vice-President, The Carroll Group, Inc. (management consultants).
Education: M.A. Library and Information Science (1968), Ph.D. Sociology of Science (1972), M.B.A., Executive Programme, University of Chicago (1983).
Expertise: General Management, Information Management, Organizational Behaviour.
Experience: 1961-66: Director of Libraries, Repatriation General Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia; 1968-72: Assistant Director, Health Sciences Librarianship Training Programme, University of Chicago; 1968-90: Senior Lecturer in Financial and Cost Accounting, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago; 1972-77: Director of Education, Medical Library Association, Chicago; 1977-84: Executive Director and CEO, Association of College and Research Libraries, Chicago; 1986-90: Visiting Professor in Financial and Cost accounting at the University of Michigan and the John F. Kennedy School of Management, Orinda, California; Since 1984: Executive Vice-President, The Carroll Group, Inc., Michigan. Member of the Board of Directors of eight national and international organizations, including IBPGR and ICARDA. Consultant to the U.S. Government for A.I.D., the Department of Education, National Science Foundation, National Centre for Educational Statistics, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and National Endowment for the Humanities. Member of Third External Review of ILCA (1992).
Name: Ammar Siamwalla (Thailand)
Position: President, Thailand Development Research Institute, Bangkok.
Education: B.Sc. Econ. (Hons.), University of London (1962); Ph.D., Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University (1967).
Expertise: Economics.
Experience: 1966-67: Assistant Professor and Research Economist, Economic Growth Centre, Yale University; 1967-68: Visiting Expert, National Economics Development Board, Bangkok, Thailand; 1971-72: Rockefeller Foundation Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, Thammasut University; 1972-78: Lecturer, Thammasat University, Bangkok; 1978-84: Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute; 1984-90: Programme Director, Agriculture and Rural Development, Thailand Development Research Institute. Since 1990: Present position. Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (1974). Chairman, Sub-committee on Rice Policy, Economics Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (1974). Member, Economics Section, National Research Council (1975-78). Member, Pollwatch Committee (1992). Member, International Policy Council on Agriculture and Trade (1985 to present).
