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Committee
Role
Ensure the highest visibility possible for the crop itself
and for the institutions participating, and to foster relations
between private companies and cassava research.
Raise sponsorship for the organization of the conference
and invite high profile speakers and participants to the meeting.
- Alfred Dixon
Coordinator of Global Cassava Development Strategy (GCDS),
Nigeria
- Alfredo Alves
Embrapa's Research Scientist and Coordinator of CBN, CIAT,
Colombia
- C. P. E. Omaliko
Director, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Nigeria
- George Otim Nape
Deputy Director General, NARO, Uganda
- Ivan Ingelbrecht
Head of Biotechnology Unit, IITA, Nigeria
- Joachim Voss
Director General, CIAT, Colombia
- Joe Tohme
Leader of Agrobiodiversity and Biotechnology Project, CIAT,
Colombia
- Juan Lucas Restrepo
Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Colombia
- Klaas J. Tamminga
Research and Comunication Division of the DGIS, Netherlands
- Klanarong Sriroth
Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology, Faculty of Agro-Industry,
Kasetsart University,
Thailand
- Marc Van Montagu
Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Ghent,
Belgium
- Marcio Porto
Deputy Regional Representative for Latin America and the
Caribbean, FAO, Chile
- Osei Safo-Kantaka
National Coordinator for Root and Tuber Programme, Kname
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
- Peter H. Raven
Director, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA
- Roger Beachy
President of the Danforth Center, USA
- S. Edison
Director, Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, India
- Wardie Leppan
Team Leader, Sustainable Use of Biodiversity, IDRC, Canada
- William Roca
Plant Cell Physiologist, Leader Project, CIP, Perú
Scientific Coordination Committee
Role
Fund raising, scientific program, organize posters and plenary
sessions, publications etc.
- Alfredo Alves, CIAT, Colombia
- Ann Marie Thro, CSREES-USDA, USA
- Anthony Bellotti, CIAT, Colombia
- Chikelu Mba, IAEA, Austria
- Claude Fauquet, Danforth Center, USA
- Daniel Debouck, CIAT, USA
- Eric Kueneman, FAO, Italy
- Guy Henry, CIRAD, Argentina
- Hernan Ceballos, CIAT, Colombia
- Jan Salick, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA
- Joe Tohme, CIAT, Colombia
- John Beeching, University of Bath, UK
- Larry Beach, USAID, USA
- Martin Fregene, CIAT, Colombia
- Nigel Taylor, Danforth Center, USA
- Reinhardt Howeler, CIAT, Thailand
- Richard Sayre, Ohio State University, USA
- Richard Visser, Wageningen University
- Valerie Verdier, Univ. de Perpinang, France
- Wilhelm Gruissem, ETHZ, Switzerland
Local Organization Committee
Role
Day to day organization of the meeting, travel, accomodation,
proceedings, posters etc.
- Alfredo Alves
- Anna Knox
- Anthony Bellotti
- Bernardo Ospina
- Claudia Zuñiga
- Elizabeth Alvarez
- Elizabeth Caicedo
- Hernan Ceballos
- Jim McMillan
- Joe Tohme
- Martin Fregene
- Nathan Russel
- Patricia Fajardo
- Paul Chavarriaga
- Roosevelt Escobar
- Sibel González
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