Speakers and Partners
Speakers and Partners
Meet Our Speakers
Inaugural Plenary Speakers
Yemi Akinbamijo
FARA
Jacqueline Hughes
ICRISAT
Lindiwe Majele Sibanda
CGIAR
Agnes Kalibata
AGRA
Aggie Asiimwe Konde
AGRA
Himanshu Pathak
ICAR
Prabhu Pingali
Chair ICRISAT Governing Board
Ramesh Chand
NITI Aayog
Ashok Dalwai
GoI
Session Plenary Speakers
Iain Wright
ILRI
Ramadjita Tabo
ICRISAT
Herve Thieblemont
Syngenta Foundation
Rebbie Harawa
ICRISAT
Arabinda Kumar Padhee
Govt of Odisha
ML Jat
ICRISAT
V Praveen Rao
Kaveri Agricultural University
Arvind Kumar
ICRISAT
D Ian Given
University of Readings
Katrien Devos
University of Georgia
Sean Mayes
ICRISAT
Thomas Reardon
Michigan State University
Victor Afari-Sefa
ICRISAT
Abiola Afolayan
Bread for the World
Keynote Speakers
Santiago LÓPEZ RIDAURA
CIMMYT
Jeroen Groot
WUR
K Keshavulu
TSSOCA
Jane Ininda
AGRA
Gubba Kiran
Gubba Cold Storage Pvt Ltd
Shannon Olsson
The ECHO Network
Megha N Parajulee
Texas A&M University
CLL Gowda
GRSV Consulting Services
Lucrezia Caon
Food and Agriculture Organization
Thallada Bhaskar
CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum
Alison Laing
CSIRO
Adegbola Adesogan
University of Florida
Rao Mylavarapu
University of Florida
Andrew McDonald
Cornell University
Hussein Shimelis
African Center for Crop Improvement (ACCI)
Bikram Gill
Kansas State University
Adam Kleczkowski
University of Strathclyde
Krishnan Pallassana
Digital Green
Madhur Gautam
The World Bank
GyanMudra
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Rupa Dawane
JSW Foundation
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Our Sponsors
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Patron
Jacqueline Hughes
Director General
ICRISAT
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