Conference committees
Conference committees
Conference committees
Patron
Jacqueline Hughes, Director General, ICRISAT
Conference Chair
Arvind Kumar, Deputy Director General- Research, ICRISAT
Advisory Committee
- Ramesh Chand, NITI Aayog, India (Chair)
- Manoj Ahuja, Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India
- Arun Baral, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), HarvestPlus
- Agnes Kalibata, President, AGRA, Kenya
- Prabhu Pingali, Chair Governing Board, ICRISAT
Conference Secretariat
- Victor Afarisefa, Research Program Director – EST, ICRISAT
- Mamta Sharma, Deputy Regional Director – Asia, ICRISAT
- Kuldeep Singh, Head – Genebank, ICRISAT
- Nilesh Mishra, Associate Manager – ACI, ICRISAT
- Prakash Gangashetty, Scientist – ICRISAT
- Agathe Diama, Head-Regional Information – West & Central Africa Program, ICRISAT
- Gilbert Obiero, Regional Program Officer – ESA, ICRISAT
Steering Committee
- Jacqueline Hughes, Director General, ICRISAT, Hyderabad (Chair)
- Himanshu Pathak, Secretary, DARE and Director General, ICAR
- Sanjay Agarwal, Assistant Director General, ICRISAT
- P. Chandra Shekara, Director General, National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE)
- N Kalaiselvi, Director General, CSIR & Secretary DSIR
- Ravi Khetrapal, Executive Secretary, Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institution (APAARI), Thailand
- Arvind Kumar, Deputy Director General-Research, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- Tshilidzi Madzivhandila , CEO, FANRPAN
- Jibrin Muhammad Jibrin, Director, Center for Drylands Agriculture (CDA), Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.
- M Raghunandan Rao, IAS, Agriculture Production Commissioner and Secretary to Government of Telangana
- Tilak Raj Sharma, Deputy Director General (Crop Science) ICAR
- Abdou Tenkouano, Executive Director, CORAF
- Enock Warinda, Executive Director, ASARECA
Organizing Committee
- Arvind Kumar, Deputy Director General – Research, ICRISAT, Hyderabad (Chair)
- Victor Afari-Sefa, Research Program Director – EST, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- ML Jat, Research Program Director – RF&FS, ICRISAT
- Sean Mayes, Research Program Director – ACI, ICRISAT
- V. Ratnavathi, Director (Acting), ICAR – Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad
- Rebbie Harawa, Regional Director – ESA, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- Ramadjita Tabo, Regional Director – WCA, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- Sreenath Dixit, Cluster Leader – ICRISAT Development Center, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- Patrick Okori, Country Representative – Mozambique, Cluster Leader – Seed Systems – ACI, Hyderabad
- Hari Sudini, Head – Science Quality & Strategy, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- Mamta Sharma, Deputy Regional Director – Asia, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- Ramon Peachey, Director – Communications, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- Angshu Sengupta, Director – Institutional Finance and Service, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
- Kunal Sarkar, Director – Human Resources Services, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
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Patron
Jacqueline Hughes
Director General
ICRISAT
Conference Chair
Arvind Kumar
Deputy Director General – Research
ICRISAT
Contact
Victor Afari-Sefa (Conference Secretariat)
International Conference on Innovations to Transform Drylands
ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India, 502324
Email : icrisatic50@cgiar.org
Professional Conference Organizer (PCO)
Thirupathi Atkapuram, CEM
Director, PCO Meety Events Private Limited