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Erick Boy is the Chief Nutritionist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As head of nutrition for the HarvestPlus Program since 2008, he has led research that has generated scientific evidence on biofortified staple crops as efficacious and effective interventions to help address iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.
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Md. Wahidul Amin is a Senior Program Manager in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit, and Country Coordinator for HarvestPlus, Bangladesh. Wahidul has 20 years experience in monitoring and evaluation (M&E), project design, project management, and grant management in national and international research and development organizations. He helped to design the overall M&E system operational framework of the CSISA-BD project with three CGIAR members. Since 2007, he has worked in the CGIAR system in knowledge management, including eight years with HarvestPlus and previously eight years with IRRI. He received his MSc in Plant Pathology from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Bangladesh, and a BS in Agriculture from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh.