PANEL COMPOSITION
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Panel Chair: | |
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Graham Jenkins |
Tel: (44-1223) 871539 |
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Antonio Bahia Filho |
Tel: (55-31) 7735644 |
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Kenneth Cassman |
Tel: (1-402) 4721555 |
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Barrie Keenan |
Tel: (64-4) 4767677 |
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Don Marshall |
Tel: (61-2) 93514332 |
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V.S. Vyas 396 |
Tel: (91-141) 515348 |
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TAC Secretariat: | |
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Panel Secretary: | |
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Guido Gryseels |
Tel: (39-6) 57055442 |
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CGIAR Secretariat: | |
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Paramjit Sachdeva |
Tel: (1-202) 4738941 |
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Consultants: | |
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John Griffith (Board) |
Tel: (1-301) 8975046 (Home) |
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Ralph Quatrano (Biotechnology) |
Tel: (1-919) 962-2098 |
BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Graham Jenkins (UK) graduated in Agricultural Botany at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and undertook post-graduate training at Cambridge and Trinidad, (West Indies). From 1955-59, he worked as a rice breeder in Nigeria, returning to work briefly in the Biochemistry Department at Rothamsted Experimental Station in England before taking up an appointment as a cereal breeder at the then Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) at Cambridge. From 1979-83, he served as a Scientific Adviser with responsibilities for plant breeding and genetics at the Agricultural and Food Research Council in London, returning then to PBI Cambridge as Head of the Cereals Department and subsequently also as Deputy Director. He was Acting Director of the PBI at the time of its privatization in October 1987 and was appointed a director with responsibilities for plant breeding and research on the board of the new company, Plant Breeding International Ltd, a subsidiary of Unilever PLC. With regard to experience in the CGIAR System, Graham Jenkins has participated in EPMRs - and other types of review - of ICARDA, IITA, ICRISAT, IPGRI and CIMMYT. The current EPMR represents his fourth visit to CIMMYT over a period of 25 years. He retired from PBI Cambridge Ltd in 1993 and has undertaken a number of consultancies, mostly within the CGIAR System, since that time.
Antonio Bahia Filho (Brazil) presently serves as Director General of the National Maize and Sorghum Research Center of EMBRAPA in Sete Lagoas, Brazil. He previously held this post from 1985-1990, and has been Research Director and Soil Scientist at this Institution. He obtained his B.Sc., M. Sc., and Ph. D. in Agronomy from the Federal University of Vicosa. Antonio. Bahia Filho is a soil scientist with research interests in maize tolerance to soil stress conditions including acidity and phosphorus deficiency. He has also worked on the physico-chemistry of phosphorus availability in tropical soils. In addition to his duties as Director General, Dr. Bahia Filho was leader of a national committee that developed and implemented a franchising system with private seed companies to deliver maize hybrids generated by EMBRAPA's plant breeding research. This consortium of seed companies (UNIMILHO) provides 16% of the seed sold in Brazil, and royalties paid from seed sales provide funds to support federal agricultural research programmes. Antonio Bahia Filho was a consultant for a World Bank mission to Angola, and has served as a Technical Adviser to the CIMMYT South America Maize Regional Programme since 1990.
Kenneth Cassman (USA) is currently Head of the Department of Agronomy at the University of Nebraska. Previous positions include Head of the Agronomy, Plant Physiology, and Agroecology Division at the International Rice Research Institute (1991-1995), Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Range Science at the University of California, Davis (1984-1990), Grain Legume Agronomist on the Egyptian Major Crop Improvement Project (1982-1984), and Project Leader of the Jari Rice Project Research Group in Para, Brasil (1980-1982). He received a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego (1975), and a Ph.D. in Agronomy and Soil Science from the University of Hawaii (1979). Kenneth Cassman's research interests include soil fertility and plant nutrition, nutrient cycling and soil organic matter, root ecophysiology, and the sustainability of intensive cropping systems. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America, and he serves as a Board member of the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association.
Barrie Keenan (New Zealand) is Principal of Keenan Consulting, a firm specializing in human resources management and the development of management information systems to achieve best business performance. Prior to founding this business he was involved for 22 years in various agricultural research management roles with the Agricultural Research Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and then with the MAF Technology business group. Since 1992 he has consulted with a number of the Crown Research Institutes and the agricultural extension company formed after the restructuring of the New Zealand science agencies, on a World Bank project in Turkey, and with CIAT. He has also visited other CGIAR Centres in Africa looking at issues relating to the communication of management information between headquarters and regional staff.
Don Marshall (Australia) is an population geneticist. He is currently Professor of Plant Breeding, and Director of the Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Sydney. He was previously Professor of Agronomy and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Adelaide. He served on the board of IPGRI and is currently a member of the Board of ICRISAT. He previously participated in the CCER of the Wheat Germplasm Improvement Subprogramme at CIMMYT. He is a member of the Board of Suprime Seeds and Hybrid Wheat Australia and a Program Leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Quality Wheat Products and Processes. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Vijay S. Vyas (India) has a Ph.D. in Economics. Currently he is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, from where he retired as Director in 1996. He has taught in the Bombay University, Sarden Patel University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). Vijay Vyas has served as a member of the Agricultural Prices Commission of the Government of India, Director of IIMA and Senior Advisor in the Agricultural and Rural Development Department of the World Bank. He was Team Leader of the Second Asian Agricultural Survey, Chairman of the External Management Review of Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Chairman of the External Programme and Management Review of International Irrigation Management Institute (IMMI). He served as member of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of CIAT, and a member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Development Studies of Sussex University. He is a member of the National Commission on Integrated Water Planning, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Cabinet in India. He has written extensively on key issues of Agricultural Policy and Rural Development, and has been honoured by the academic community in India and abroad for his contribution to the profession. Vijay Vyas is the President elected of the Asian Association of Agricultural Economists.
