Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Founder & Chairperson
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
 Bangladesh

Mr. Tom Arnold
Chief Executive Officer
Concern Worldwide
 Ireland

Mr. Sartaj Aziz
Vice-Chancellor
Beaconhouse National University and
Former Finance Minister, Foreign Minister and Agriculture Minister
Government of Pakistan
 Pakistan

Rev. David Beckmann
Director
Bread for the World
 USA

Ms. Catherine Bertini
Co-chair
The Chicago Council Initiative on Global Agricultural Development
 USA

Ms. Margaret Biggs
President
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
 Canada

Dr. Margaret Catley-Carlson
Chair
World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water
 Canada

Prof. Chen Chunming
Director
International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) - Focal Point in China
 China

Dr. Timothy Evans
Dean, James P Grant School of Public Health
BRAC University
 Bangladesh

Dr. Shenggen Fan (Ex-Officio)
Director General
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
 USA

Dr. Michel Griffon
Deputy Managing Director
National Research Agency (ANR)
 France

Mrs. Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis
Associate Administrator
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
 USA

Mr. Carl Hausmann
President and CEO
Bunge North America
 USA

Dr. Monty Patrick Jones
Chair
The Global Forum on Agricultural Research and
Executive Secretary
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
 Ghana

H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor
Former President
Republic of Ghana
 Ghana

Mr. Vijay Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
Society for the Elimination of Rural Poverty
 India

Dr. Justin Yifu Lin
Senior Vice President
Development Economics & Chief Economist, The World Bank
 USA

Mr. David Malone
President
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
 Canada

Mr. Peter McPherson
President
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and
Founding Co-Chair
Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
 USA

Mr. Harris Mutio Mule
Executive Director
Top Investment and Management Services (TIMS) Limited
 Kenya

H.E. Yoweri K. Museveni
President
Republic of Uganda
 Uganda

Dr. Namanga Ngongi
President
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
 Kenya

H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President
Federal Republic of Nigeria
 Nigeria

Lord Ron Oxburgh of Liverpool
House of Lords
United Kingdom

Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
Secretary-General
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
 Switzerland

Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy
Cornell University
 USA

Dr. Hans-Joachim Preuss
Managing Director
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
 Germany

Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
Director
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
 USA

Dr. Ursula Schäfer-Preuss
Former Vice President
Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
 Philippines

Prof. Amartya Sen
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1998 and
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
Harvard University
 USA

Dr. Ismail Serageldin
Director
Library of Alexandria
 Egypt

Ms. Kathy Spahn
President and Chief Executive Officer
Helen Keller International
 USA

Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
Chairman
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
 India

Mr. M. Syeduzzaman
Former Minister of Finance
 Bangladesh

Ms. Diane Vincent
Vice Chairperson
Canadian International Trade Tribunal
 Canada

Prof. Joachim von Braun
Director, Department of Economic and Technological Change, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
 Germany

Dr. Vo-Tong Xuan
Former Rector
Angiang University
 Vietnam

Prof. Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006 and
Founder
Grameen Bank
 Bangladesh