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57th Meeting of
the CIAT Board of Trustees
Cali, Colombia, 14-19 April 2008
Seated, left to right:
Ablassé Ouédraogo, Mary Scholes, Yves
Savidan, Emilia Boncodin, Kenneth Giller, María
José Sampaio.
Standing, left to right:
Arturo Vega, Claudio Wernli, Louise Fortmann, Oscar
Rojas, Gordon MacNeil, David Miron, Geoffrey Hawtin,
Laura Trejos (Board Secretary).
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Members
of the Board
Yves Savidan
(Chair)
France
See bio
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Louise Fortmann
U.S.A.
See bio |
David Miron
U.S.A.
See bio |
Arturo Vega
(ex-officio)
Colombia
See bio |
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Mary Scholes
(Vice-Chair)
South Africa
See bio
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Kenneth Giller
United Kingdom
See bio |
Ablassé Ouédraogo
Burkina Faso
See bio |
Moisés Wasserman
(ex-officio)
Colombia
See bio |
Andrés Felipe Arias
(ex-officio)
Colombia
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Geoffrey Hawtin
Interim Director General
(ex-officio)
United Kingdom
See bio |
Oscar Rojas
Colombia
See bio |
Claudio Wernli
Chile
See bio |
Emilia Boncodin
Philippines
See bio |
Gordon MacNeil
Canada
See bio |
María José
Sampaio
Brazil
See bio |
Dr. Armando Samper
Chairman Emeritus Colombia |
Secretary to the Board
Laura Trejos
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)
Apartado Aéreo 6713
Cali, Colombia
Phone: +57 (2) 4450076
Fax: +57 (2) 4450099
E-mail: l.j.trejos@cgiar.org
Yves
Savidan
Yves Savidan, a French citizen, directeur de recherche
from l'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
(IRD),
is currently international relation officer ('chargé
de mission') in AGROPOLIS,
Montpellier. AGROPOLIS is an organization that facilitates
collective actions across the French agricultural research
and higher education organizations, like the Future Harvest
Alliance aims at facilitating collective actions across
the CGIAR
research centers. Dr. Savidan received his PhD in plant
genetics and breeding from the University of Paris XI and
spent 24 years working in developing countries, in Africa
(Côte d'Ivoire) and Latin America (at Embrapa
in Brazil, and at CIMMYT
in Mexico). His work focussed on plant reproductive biology
and its impact on breeding. Beside publishing over 100 papers
on apomixis, he edited a book on "The Flowering of
Apomixis: from Mechanisms to Genetic Engineering",
and authored several book chapters. He stopped doing research
in 2000 to move to his first ever position in his home country,
with one major objective: enhancing partnerships between
the CGIAR and the French agricultural research organizations.
He is now Chair of the Science Council of Agropolis Foundation,
a newly founded French Foundation receiving public and private
funds to support interdisciplinary integration and the internationalization
of the agricultural research and capacity building network
of Montpellier. He is also a member of several other boards
and councils, including the research council of Cirad,
and also serves as advisor to the French national committee
for cooperation with the CGIAR.
Mary
Scholes
Prof. Mary Scholes, a citizen of Ireland and graduate of
the University of the Witwatersrand, is currently a full-time
professor in the School
of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences at Wits.
She is actively involved in undergraduate and post-graduate
teaching. Her research activities focus on soil fertility
and biogeochemistry in savannas, plantation forests, and
croplands. She serves as the Director of the Wits Institute
for the Study of the Environment and coordinates a master's
degree in Environmental Science, which is offered across
three Faculties (Science, Law, and Engineering) at Wits.
Her research interests in iogeochemistry have resulted in
her being elected to four international science steering
committees (International Geosphere Biosphere Program, the
International Nitrogen Initiative, the Commission of Atmospheric
Chemistry and Global Pollution and the International Global
Atmospheric Chemistry Program—IGAC) focusing on nutrient
cycling and trace gas exchange in a variety of ecosystems.
She serves on a range of University committees including
Senate and the University Research Committee. As a member
of the Center for African Ecology, she lectures in functional
ecology, global change, soil science, environmental biology,
and biogeochemistry. Mary Scholes is the Vice Chair of the
CIAT Board and a member of the Executive and Finance Committee.
Emilia Boncodin
Ms. Boncodin, Filipino, is currently Professor at the National
College of Public Administration and Governance of the University
of the Philippines (UP-NCPAG)
in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines; member of the Committee
of Experts in Public Administration, United Nations, New
York; and Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee,
Board of Directors, Petron Corporation—the largest
private oil conglomerate in the Philippines engaged in oil
refining, distribution, and retail.
With a B.S. in Business Administration and Accountancy
from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, a Master's
in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, and coursework for PhD in Fiscal Policy,
Ms. Boncodin has vast experience in public finance, budgeting,
financial management, civil service reform, corporate governance,
development economics, organization and human resource development,
local government finance, and private sector development.
She has worked in the public sector of her home country,
fulfilling different positions in the Philippine Department
of Budget and Management and serving as Secretary and Member
of the Cabinet. She has worked as Project Assistant in the
Business Research Foundation of the University of Philippines
and as Research Assistant in the Philippine Cotton Corporation.
Ms. Boncodin has served as chairperson of the Board/Commission/Committee
of numerous organizations, including the Development Academy
of the Philippines, the Technology and Livelihood Resource
Corporation, the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission,
the Government Procurement Policy Board, and the Development
Budget Coordination Committee. She has also served as Vice-Chairperson
of the Presidential Committee for Effective Governance and
has been member of numerous boards, councils, committees,
and commissions.
In the private sector, Ms. Boncodin has served as consultant
to international multilateral and bilateral agencies and
public sector organizations in public finance, financial
management, organization, human resource development, change
management, development policy, among others. She has also
served as Executive Director of Ramos Peace and Development
Foundation, Partner of Resource and Measures Associates,
and Treasurer of the University of the Philippines Provident
Fund.
Ms. Boncodin has been recipient of numerous professional
awards in the fields of politics, governance, government
service, and business administration, and has been conferred
five doctor's degrees (honoris causa) by prestigious
Philippine universities.
Louise Fortmann
Louise Fortmann, a U.S. citizen, is Professor of Natural
Resource Sociology in the Department
of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the
University
of California at Berkeley. She is the Rudy Grah Chair
in Forestry and Sustainable Development. She does research
in southern Africa and northern California on gender, democratizing
science, property, and poverty. Her inability to milk a
cow has provided comic relief in rural villages. Louise
Fortmann is member of the Executive and Finance Committee.
Kenneth Giller
Professor Giller, a British citizen, holds a Bachelor of
Science in Botany and a Ph.D in Plant Ecology from the University
of Sheffield. Currently he is a Professor of Plant Production
Systems at Wageningen
University, Netherlands, in the Department of Plant
Sciences. While working in the Soil Microbiology Department
at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, UK in the 1980s,
he conducted collaborative research with ICRISAT and CIAT.
Prof. Giller was appointed to a personal Chair at the University
of London (Wye College) with the title of Professor of Tropical
Soil Fertility. He has worked on collaborative projects
on soil fertility in many countries in East and Southern
Africa, Latin America, and South-east Asia. He has ample
experience in teaching; has coordinated MSc. programs at
the University of London; has designed and run courses in
agroforestry and supervised more than 30 PhD research students.
He currently coordinates several interdisciplinary research
projects in Africa. He has written and edited several books
on Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems and decomposition
of organic matter and has authored and co-authored more
than 150 scientific journal articles and reviews. He is
a member of the Board of the Netherlands Foundation for
Science in the Tropics and has contributed to the writing
of their new five-year strategy for 2007-2012.
Geoffrey Hawtin
Geoff Hawtin, a British/Canadian citizen, is the Senior
Advisor—and until August 2005 was the Executive Secretary—of
the Global Crop Diversity Trust, an international foundation
that he helped create, to finance the conservation of the
biodiversity of crops worldwide. From 1991 until 2003 he
was Director General of the International Plant Genetic
Resources Institute (IPGRI, now Bioversity International),
a research center of the CGIAR headquartered in Rome, Italy.
Geoff obtained both his first degree and Ph.D. from Cambridge
University, U.K., carrying out his doctoral thesis research
at Makerere University, Uganda. He worked for the Ford Foundation
and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
as a plant breeder, based in Lebanon and Egypt, and was
the first Leader of the Food Legume Improvement Programme
of the International Center for Agricultural Research in
the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Syria. Geoff has also served as
Deputy Director General of ICARDA and Director of the Agriculture,
Food and Nutrition Sciences Division of IDRC based in Ottawa,
Canada. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 scientific
and technical publications and, until his transfer to Cali,
Colombia, home has been Dorset, UK. His other responsibilities
include membership of the Board of Directors of the Tropical
Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE),
in Costa Rica, and he chairs the International Advisory
Committee of Gardens for Life, Eden Project, Cornwall.
Gordon MacNeil
Gordon MacNeil, a Canadian citizen, is an international
civil servant with over 35 years of employment in the international
development sector. Starting as an overseas CUSO volunteer
in the early 1970's (the Canadian equivalent of the Peace
Corps) he gained experience in administration and financial
management through employment in Canada's International
Development Research Centre (IDRC) where he had increasingly
senior assignments culminating as Deputy/Acting Director
of the Social Sciences Division. During the IDRC period
(1975-1988), he was based both in Ottawa and for nearly
5 years in the West African regional office (Dakar, Senegal).
In early 1988 Mr. MacNeil joined the CGIAR system as the
first Director of Finance and Administration of the West
Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA—now known
as the Africa Rice Center). In late 1992 he moved to the
World Bank as senior finance officer in the CGIAR Secretariat.
Over the next 6 years he had responsibility for the major
financial management initiatives that are coordinated in
the Secretariat, including participation in reviews and
task forces. He joined the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI) in mid-1998, as Treasurer and Director for Finance
where, in addition to the Institute management responsibility,
he conceptualized and then participated in the creation
of the CGIAR Internal Audit Unit (IAU). In mid-2002, he
returned briefly to the CG Secretariat and then moved to
ISNAR in The Hague, with the assignment of helping to coordinate
its legal closure and the program merger/integration with
IFPRI. Following the ISNAR assignment he was engaged as
the interim resource director of the International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi. His work since the
ILRI assignment has been as an independent consultant and
he is now the President of the XCG International Consulting
Group. He has participated in six CGIAR Board Orientation
Programs (2004-2007), responsible for the fiduciary oversight
module. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees
of CIAT in Colombia.
Mr. MacNeil has a BSc (Loyola College), a diploma in Development
Studies (U. of Ottawa), and an MBA (University of Western
Ontario).
David Miron
David Miron, a U.S. citizen, is the President of TDM Consultants,
specializing in organization change. David received a B.S.
in international relations from St. Joseph's University;
an M.S. in Foreign Service, with an emphasis on Latin American
economics and politics, from Georgetown University, where
he was a Bushrod Washington Scholar; and an Ed.D., specializing
in organization intervention, from Harvard University. In
addition, he was a National Institute of Public Affairs
Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics at the University
of Maryland. David Miron was an executive with IBM Business
Consulting Services. His was engaged with Mercer Management
Consulting as the global practice leader for organization
analysis and planning. David was also vice president and
director of human resource management at Owens-Illinois
in Toledo, OH. David spent seven years in the U.S. Peace
Corps. Two years as a volunteer in Colombia and five years
in Washington where his last position was Director of Program
Planning, Development and Evaluation. David Miron is member
of the Executive and Finance Committee.
Ablassé
Ouédraogo
Until his appointment in December 2003 to the AfDB
as Senior Adviser to the President for the Regional Member
Countries, Mr. Ablassé Ouédraogo, born in
Burkina Faso, on June 30, 1953, was international consultant
and Associate Director of the consulting firm "Performance
Management Consulting", Special Adviser on Poverty
Reduction and Employment to the Director General of the
International Labour Organization (ILO) and Special Representative
of the Secretary General of the "l'Organisation
internationale de la Francophonie" (OIF), in charge
of cultural diversity. From 1982 to 1994, Mr. Ouédraogo
worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
where he successively occupied the positions of Deputy Administrator
of the Industrial Programme Niamey (Niger) from 1982 to
1984; Programme Officer in Conakry (Guinea) from 1984 to
1986; Assistant UNDP Representative to the OAU General Secretariat
and Deputy Head of UNDP Liaison Office with the United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
from 1986 to 1988; Acting Resident Representative in Brazzaville,
Congo from 1988 to 1991; Deputy Resident Representative
in Kinshasa, Zaire from 1991 to 1993 and Head of the Regional
Office for East Africa of the United Nations Sudano-Sahelian
Regional Office (UNSO). Mr. Ablassé Ouédraogo
occupied the positions of Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Burkina Faso from 1994 to 1999 and Special Adviser to the
President of Burkina Faso in 1999. During his tenure as
Minister of Foreign Affairs, he contributed to the initiation
of "Development Diplomacy", which enabled the
country to host numerous international events, prominent
among which were the Summit of Heads of State of Africa
and France, in December 1996, the Summit of OAU Heads of
State and Government in July 1998 and the African Cup of
Nations football tournament in February 1998. From 1999
to 2002, he was the first African to hold the position of
Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization
(WTO). In that capacity, Mr. Ouedraogo was also responsible
for the Divisions in charge of Trade and Development, Finance
and Trade, External Relations, Textiles and Information
Technology. He was also the focal point for monitoring the
activities of the International Trade Centre (ITC). Mr.
Ablassé Ouédraogo holds a Doctorate degree
in Economics, with specialization in "Development Economics"
from the University of Nice, France. Mr. Ablassé
Ouédraogo is married and has three children. He was
decorated with the title of "Officier de l'Ordre
national du Burkina Faso" and "Officier
de l'Ordre national équatorial du Gabon".
Oscar Rojas
Oscar Rojas is a Colombian citizen; he is a medical surgeon
from the Universidad del Valle; has a Magister in Public
Health also from the Universidad del Valle and a Master
of Science in Community Health from the University of London.
He is currently the Executive Director of AlvarAlice
Foundation, a Colombian civil society organization engaged
in peace-building efforts and education and health programs.
Oscar Rojas was Rector of the Universidad del Valle; Director
General of the University Hospital, Cali; Viceminister of
Health of Colombia and Vice-President of the Carvajal and
FES foundations. Additionally, he has served as consultant
to the World Bank and to the World Health Organizations.
Oscar Rojas is member of the Executive and Finance Committee.
María
José Sampaio
María José Sampaio is a Brazilian citizen;
she holds an Agronomy degree from the University of São
Paulo (ESALQ/1975) and a PhD in molecular Biochemistry from
Dundee University, Scotland. She currently works for the
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa),
linked to the Ministry of Agriculture. She holds an advisory
position on Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs, working
closely with the Ministries of: Agriculture, Environment,
Industry and Commerce, Science and Technology and Foreign
Affairs. She is a member of the Program Advisory Committee
of the Harvest Plus Challenge Program and is very much involved
in the Generation CP. She has received an extensive training
on molecular biology of microorganisms and plants. She helped
start the Embrapa's biotechnology program and was Research
Director of Cenargen during the period 1989 to 1996. She
has been involved with policy making at national and international
levels in the areas of intellectual property rights, biotechnology/genetically
modified organisms/biosafety, genetic resources/access,
and benefit sharing as a bases for the development of business
opportunities and technology transfer. She is a member of
the CGIAR Genetic Resources Policy Committee. M.J. Sampaio
has authored and co-authored many scientific publications.
Arturo Vega
Arturo Enrique Vega is a Colombian citizen; he holds a
B.Sc. on Animal Sciences from the University of Western
Louisiana and a M.Sc. on Animal Production from the Universidad
Pontificia Católica of Chile. He has ample experience
in the formulation and development of policies, programs,
and projects in the rural and livestock sector. He has ample
capacity for the management of the human resource in public
and private entities. Currently he is the Executive Director
of Corpoica.
Other assignments include General Manager of INCODER; Regional
Director 2 of Corpoica; Professor, University of Córdoba—for
pre-graduate students; and Consultant to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development in areas related to livestock
research. Dr. Vega has authored and co-authored several
publications in the areas of agriculture and livestock.
Moisés
Wasserman
Moisés Wasserman is a Colombian national, with a
degree in Chemistry from the National University of Colombia
and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Jerusalem Hebrew University,
where he also conducted extensive studies in biology. He
is currently the Rector of the National University of Colombia,
where he had formerly worked as Professor and subsequently
Dean of the Faculty of Sciences. Dr. Wasserman has also
been Director of Colombia's National Health Institute and
Research Scientist at the Biochemistry Laboratory of New
York State University, New York. He currently serves as
ad honorem President of the Colombian
Academy of Exact Physical and Natural Sciences. He has
published extensively on malaria.
Claudio Wernli
Claudio Wernli, a Chilean and Swiss citizen, is an Agronomist
and holds a Ph.D on Forage Utilization and Animal Production
from the University of Reading, U.K. Currently he is Executive
Director of the Millennium Science Initiative Program of
the Ministry
of Planning and Cooperation of Chile. Claudio Wernli
is full professor in Agronomy of the Universidad de Chile
as well as invited professor in CATIE, Costa Rica, and INTA,
Argentina, and SUPCYT, Uruguay. He has been FAO Consultant
for Latin America and the Caribbean; IICA consultant on
agronomy and research priorities with BID, RISPAL and ALPA;
and has also been a consultant working in development projects
at regional or farm levels in Chile. He is member of the
Board of Directors at University of Tarapacá-Chile;
at the national Fund for Scientific and Technological Development;
and at the enterprise Inversiones Libertad S.A. He is founding
member and past President of Chilean Society of Animal Production
and the Agronomy Society of Chile, and is also member of
the British Society of Animal Science. In the field of philanthropy,
he is President of the Foundation for the formation of youngsters.
Dr. Wernli is member of the Audit and Program Committees.
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