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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
PLANNING COMMITTEE, SPEAKERS AND STAFF
PER PINSTRUP-ANDERSEN (Committee Chair and STS Roundtable Member) is the H.E.
Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of
Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University and Professor of
Agricultural Economics at Copenhagen University. He is past Chairman of the Science Council
of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and Past President of
the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). He has a B.S. from the Danish
Agricultural University, a M.S. and Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University and honorary
doctoral degrees from universities in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands,
Switzerland and India. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He served 10 years as
the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Director General and seven years as
department head; seven years as an economist at the International Center for Tropical
Agriculture, Colombia; and six years as a distinguished professor at Wageningen University. He
is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate and the recipient of several awards for his teaching,
research and communication of research results. His research and teaching include economic
analyses of food and nutrition policy, globalization and poverty, agricultural development, the
interaction between the food system and human health and nutrition, and agricultural research
and technology policy.
TIM BENTON is Research Dean in the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of
Leeds, and Professor of Population Ecology. He has previously been on the staff at the
Universities of Stirling and Aberdeen (UEA), undertook postdoctoral work at UEA and has a
PhD from Cambridge and undergraduate degree from Oxford. His research interests are broad
and concern managing populations under environmental change; with much of the specific work
concerning the theory of population dynamics and the practice of managing biodiversity in
agricultural settings. The population dynamical work includes development of theory informed
by empirical understanding derived from a laboratory model organism, a soil mite. Within the
role of research dean, he has been exposed to a wide range of biomedical and molecular sciences
and has developed a strong interest in “systems approaches”. He has worked on many different
questions: from identifying the appropriate scale of management, to patterns of biodiversity in
the fossil record, but all have at their core understanding how the environment affects behavior
and life history, and how the responses are summed across individuals to produce population
dynamics.
MIKE BUSHELL (Committee Member) is head of Jealott’s Hill International Research
Centre in the United Kingdom. Dr. Bushell has recently taken up a new role in global R&D as
principal scientific adviser and is also secretary to Syngenta’s Science and Technology Advisory
Board. Dr. Bushell graduated with a B.Sc. in organic chemistry from Liverpool and a Ph.D.
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from Liverpool/University of California at Davis. Dr. Bushell came to Jealott’s Hill in 1980 as a
team leader in insecticide research, following postdoctoral work in Cambridge. Since 1990, Dr.
Bushell has held various management positions in chemistry and bioscience and has also worked
within Zeneca Specialties in Manchester. He returned to Jealott’s Hill in 1999 as sector leader for
insect and fungal control. Within Syngenta he has previously been head of R&T projects, head of
discovery, head of strategy and technology, and head of external partnerships.
DEREK BYERLEE is the chair of the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the
Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and a consultant and
adviser to a number of international organizations. Formerly he was rural strategy adviser for the
World Bank and co-director of the 2008 World Development Report: Agriculture for
Development. Before joining the Bank, he was director of economics at the International Maize
and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and associate professor at Michigan State
University. For most of his career he worked in several postings in Africa, Latin America and
Asia conducting field research on agricultural technological change and food policy. He has
published widely in several fields of agricultural development.
JUDE CAPPER is an Assistant Professor of Dairy Sciences in the Department of Animal
Sciences at Washington State University. She undertook her undergraduate and graduate degrees
at Harper Adams University College (UK) where her post-graduate research focused on the
relationship between ruminant nutrition and neonatal behavior. Following a two-year lectureship
in Animal Biology at the University of Worcester (UK), her post-doctoral research at Cornell
focused on two areas: ruminant lipid metabolism, and modeling the environmental impact of
dairy production. At Cornell, Jude worked with Prof. Dale Bauman to develop a deterministic
model of the environmental impact of dairy production, based on the NRC (2001) nutrient
requirements for dairy cows. At WSU, her program focuses on quantifying the environmental
impact of dairy and beef production systems, identifying the factors that contribute to mitigating
resource use and greenhouse gas emissions and communicating the results to producers,
consumer and policy-makers. Current projects include comparisons of the historical and modern
US beef industry; evaluation of the effect of dairy breed on the environmental impact of cheese
production; and quantifying the impact of performance-enhancing technologies on resource use
and greenhouse gas emissions from beef production.
JASON CLAY (Committee Member) is Senior Vice-President of Market Transformation in
the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Over the course of his career Jason Clay has worked on a
family farm, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and
spent more than twenty-five years working with human rights and environmental organizations.
In 1988, Clay invented Rainforest Marketing, one of the first fair-trade ecolabels in the United
States, and helped create Rainforest Crunch. From 1999-2003, Clay co-directed a consortium
with WWF, World Bank, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and National Aquaculture
Centres of Asia/Pacific to identify better management practices for shrimp. He has convened
multi-stakeholder roundtables to reduce the impacts of producing salmon, soy, sugarcane, cotton
and palm oil. Clay leads WWF’s efforts to work with private sector companies to improve their
supply chain management, particularly ingredient sourcing and carbon and water neutrality. Clay
is the author of 15 books (most recently, World Aquaculture and the Environment (in press),
Exploring the Links between International Business and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of
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Unilever in Indonesia (2005) and World Agriculture and the Environment (2004) and more than
250 articles and 500 invited presentations. Clay studied at Harvard and the London School of
Economics before receiving his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1979 in anthropology and
international agriculture.
DONALD CRANE is Senior Development Officer and Washington Area Representative for the
International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC). He provides liaison with USAID and other
donor agencies and partners and helps develop and manage IFDC agribusiness projects in Africa,
Eastern Europe, and Asia. Mr. Crane has over 30 years of experience promoting economic
growth and organizational management for development assistance. Prior to joining IFDC, Mr.
Crane from 1979 to 2004 was a key leader in the growth of ACDI/VOCA where he assisted the
president in perfecting the merger of Agricultural Cooperative Development International and
Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance to form ACDI/VOCA. From 1997 to 2004, he
served as Executive Vice President/Senior Advisor to the President and as president of
ACDI/VOCA supporting organizations: Agricultural Services International, Planning Assistance,
and VOCA Foundation. Mr. Crane also served as Project Officer for Africa, Near East, Asia, and
the Pacific. He has served as Chairman of the Board of the Overseas Cooperative Development
Council (OCDC); as Secretary of the Board of Volunteers in Economic Growth Alliance
(VEGA); and, as Member of the Board of the Society for International Development (SID). Mr.
Crane has an M.S. in food and resource economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,
and a B.S., accounting, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
HARTWIG DE HAEN is retired Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural
Development, University of Göttingen. From 1990 to 2005 he was Assistant Director-General of
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. From 1990 to
1994 he was head of FAO’s Agriculture Department and from 1995 until his retirement head of
the Economic and Social Department. He has studied at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen
and at Michigan State University/USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics. During his
time in academic institutions he was a member of research and policy advisory bodies, including
the Council of Scientific Advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and
Development (Chair from 1988-1990). He has published books and articles in the fields of
production economics, development economics, agricultural policy and environmental
economics.
BERT DRAKE (Committee Member) is a former plant physiologist at the Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland and the leader of two major ecosystem
projects on the impacts of rising atmospheric CO2 and climate change. The Chesapeake Bay
wetland study is now in the 23rd year making it the longest running experiment of its type ever
undertaken. In collaboration with NASA, the CO2 study was expanded in 1996 to include similar
studies of a nutrient and water limited dwarf oak forest on Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge at the
Kennedy Space Center, Florida. These studies have resulted in more than 100 publications and
involved collaborators, post doctoral fellows and graduate students from many foreign countries
and the US. A popular lecturer, he has been invited to speak on the impact of global warming on
terrestrial ecosystems to a wide range of educational and professional organizations. In 2005, he
was designated the Distinguished Research Lecturer by the Smithsonian Institution for his long
record of research and public outreach.
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MARCO FERRONI (STS Roundtable Member) is the Executive Director of the Syngenta
Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. Before joining the Foundation, Dr. Ferroni, an expert in
international agriculture and sustainability issues, worked at the Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB) and the World Bank in Washington, DC. As a Deputy Manager of the Sustainable
Development Department of the IDB, he had responsibility for regional sector policy and
technical support to the Bank’s country departments. As the Principal Officer in the Bank’s
Office of Evaluation and Oversight, he directed evaluation studies that assessed the relevance,
performance and results of Bank strategies and investments. As a senior advisor at the World
Bank he advised on donor relations and directed work on international public goods and their
role in foreign aid and international affairs. Earlier in his career, he was an economist and
division chief in the government of Switzerland, working in development cooperation. Marco
Ferroni holds a doctoral degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University.
JAMES GORNEY currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Produce Safety at the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in the Office of Food
Safety. Dr. Gorny’s primary responsibility is to advise the Director of the Office Food Safety on
policies and programs affecting the safety of fresh produce. Prior to joining the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration, Dr. Gorny served as the executive director of the Postharvest Technology
Research and Information Center at the University of California, Davis. From 2000 to 2007 Dr.
Gorny served as Senior Vice President of Food Safety & Technology for the United Fresh
Produce Association / International Fresh-cut Produce Association which merged in 2006. Dr.
Gorny received his Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California at Davis in 1995,
and his B.S. and M.S. degrees in food science from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
He is the author and editor of numerous scientific and technical publications pertaining to the
quality and safety of fresh produce. He is also the 2005 recipient of the International Fresh-cut
Produce Association Technical Award. Actively involved in the fresh produce industry since
1986, Dr. Gorny has worked extensively on perishables quality and food safety issues including
development and implementation of Good Agricultural Practices, modified atmosphere
packaging design, quality assurance, operations, and general management issues, both nationally
and internationally.
BRIAN GREENBERG is the Director of Sustainable Development at InterAction, an alliance
of US NGOs engaged in international development and humanitarian assistance. His experience
in rural development extends from sustainable agriculture and natural resource management to
capacity building for NGOs and communities. The interface between climate change and
agriculture has been an area of increasing focus for Dr. Greenberg over the past 10 years. His
field experience includes work in Egypt, India, Jamaica, Nepal, Ethiopia and the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Dr. Greenberg has experience in field survey methods, participatory rural
appraisal, agricultural development, monitoring and evaluation, conflict assessment and
mitigation, gender issues, natural resource management, strategic planning and organizational
capacity assessment and strengthening. Dr. Greenberg has a B.S. in Biochemistry from
Dickinson College, a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in
Anthropology from the University of Chicago. His prior professional experience includes
academic research and teaching, a Science Policy Fellowship at the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and independent consulting.
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ADEL KADER is a Professor of Postharvest Physiology in the Department of Plant Sciences at
the University of California at Davis. His research deals with postharvest biology and technology
in relation to preserving flavor and nutritional quality of intact and fresh-cut fruits. He has
published more than 200 technical publications and edited and co-authored a book on
Postharvest Technology. Dr. Kader received awards for outstanding teaching in 1989 and for
distinguished graduate mentoring in 2003 from UC Davis. He was elected a Fellow in 1986 and
President in 1996 of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Dr. Kader received the
Award of Distinction in 2000 from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at
UC Davis. In April, 2010 he received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of
Cartagena in Spain.
EMI KAMEYAMA (Staff) is a Program Associate for the Science and Technology for
Sustainability Program (STS) at the National Academies. She has been involved in several STS
activities including the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, workshops on
global food security, and a consensus study assessing sustainability linkages in the federal
government. Emi received her M.A. in International Affairs with a focus on Environment and
Development from The George Washington University and a B.S. in Government from Suffolk
University.
MELINDA KIMBLE is a senior vice president of the United Nations Foundation, overseeing
the Foundation’s International Bioenergy Initiative. She joined the UN Foundation in May 2000.
Prior to the Foundation, Ms. Kimble served as a state department foreign service officer,
attaining the rank of minister-counselor. She served in policy-level positions in the Bureau of
Economic and Business Affairs, overseeing multilateral development issues and debt policy; in
the Bureau of Oceans, International Environment and Scientific Affairs (OES), leading
environmental negotiations (e.g., Climate Change Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 1997). Her
assignments abroad include Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt and Tunisia. She speaks French and Arabic
and holds two master’s degrees: Economics (University of Denver) and MPA (Harvard’s
Kennedy School of Government).
PATRICIA KOSHEL (Staff) is a senior program officer with the National Academies Policy
and Global Affairs Division. She has been the staff lead for a number of workshops and studies
including one examining federal R&D activities related to urban sustainability, a regional
workshop assessing the sustainability impacts of biofuels, and work on global food security.
Before joining the National Academies, Ms. Koshel was the director of bilateral programs in the
Office of International Affairs of the US Environmental Protection Agency. She has a master’s
degree in economics.
CAROL KRAMER-LEBLANC serves as Director of Sustainable Development at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. She is an agricultural economist with broad experience in the federal
government, in academia, and with international organizations. Dr. Kramer-LeBlanc has worked
for several years as an associate director at USDA’s Economic Research Service in the natural
resources area as well as served as Deputy Executive Director of the USDA Center for Nutrition
Policy and Promotion and Director of the Foreign Agricultural Service’ Research and Scientific
Exchange Division.
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DAVID LOBELL is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in Environmental Earth
System Science, and a Center Fellow in Stanford’s Program on Food Security and the
Environment. His research focuses on identifying opportunities to raise crop yields in major
agricultural regions, with a particular emphasis on adaptation to climate change. Prior to his
current appointment, Dr. Lobell was a Senior Research Scholar at FSE from 2008-2009 and a
Lawrence Post-doctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2005-2007.
He received a PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University in 2005,
and a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude from Brown University in 2000.
NANCY MCCARTHY is currently the President and Principle Analyst of LEAD Analytics,
which focuses on providing research and consulting services in the area of law, economics and
agriculture for development. Dr. McCarthy’s major areas of expertise include: economic and
institutional analyses of policies to manage climate change mitigation and adaptation in small-
holder farming systems; risk management and coping mechanisms; sustainable land
management; property rights and land tenure; and, economic and legal analyses of multilateral
environmental agreements and intellectual property rights in the context of technology transfer.
McCarthy has extensive field experience in fifteen sub-Saharan African countries, Mexico and
Chile. Dr. McCarthy holds a PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics from the University
of California at Berkeley, and a JD Cum Laude from the George Mason University School of
Law.
JEFFREY MILDER is an ecologist and land-use planner with fourteen years of experience in
the field of conservation and sustainable development. He has worked with EcoAgriculture
Partners since 2005, first as a Research Fellow associated with the Landscape Measures Initiative
and payment for ecosystem services projects, and currently as Director of Strategic Planning and
Research. Dr. Milder holds MSc and PhD degrees in Natural Resources from Cornell University
and a BA in Earth Sciences from Harvard University. Most recently, he has conducted research
on landscape-scale relations between agricultural management and biodiversity conservation in
pasture-dominated landscapes of Central America. Prior to joining EcoAgriculture Partners, he
founded and managed the community planning practice at Daylor Consulting Group, a design
firm based in Massachusetts.
UZO MOKWUNYE currently serves as a Development Strategy Consultant. Dr. Mokwunye
was a Professor and Head of the Department of Soil Science at the Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, Nigeria. From 1996-2004, Dr. Mokwunye served as the Director of the United Nations
University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa. He also served for 16 years as a staff
member at the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) and during this time, served
for 7 years as the Director of IFDC-Africa. He also served as the Chair of the Governing Board
of ICRISAT and the Chair of the CGIAR Committee of Center Board Chairs. He received his
Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science at Ohio State University and his doctoral degree at
the University of Illinois.
DAVID MOLDEN is Deputy Director General for Research at the International Water
Management Institute (IWMI) with over 25 years in the field of water management. His passion
for water grew from his experience helping villagers organize a drinking water well in Lesotho.
He has a PhD from Colorado State University with specialties in groundwater hydrology and
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irrigation, and has since developed broader interests in integrating social, technical and
environmental aspects of water management with work across Asia and Africa. Now in Sri
Lanka with IWMI, he enjoys interdisciplinary and cross-cultural teamwork with IWMI and
partners to solve local water problems. Recently David coordinated a global program involving
over 700 participants to produce a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in
Agriculture, with results documented in the publication Water for Food, Water for Life. The
assessment examines trends, conditions, challenges and responses in water management for
agriculture to enable effective investments and management decisions for enhancing food and
environmental security. David received the 2009 award for CGIAR Outstanding Scientist.
MARINA S. MOSES (Staff) serves as the Director for the Science and Technology for
Sustainability Program (STS) in the Division of Policy and Global Affairs of the National
Academies. In this capacity, she also serves as the Director of the Roundtable on Science and
Technology for Sustainability. Under her leadership, the STS program issued the consensus
report, Sustainability and the USEPA, and has recently undertaken the multi-sponsored study,
Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government. Prior to joining the Academies, Dr. Moses
served on the faculty of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health
Services in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, where she also directed
the Doctoral Program and was the practicum coordinator for the graduate program. Dr. Moses
was the recipient of the 2005 Pfizer Scholar in Public Health Award and has worked in
emergency preparedness and communication with communities on public health issues.
Previously, Dr. Moses held senior scientific positions in the Environmental Management
Division of the U.S. Department of Energy, where she worked on the development of a
qualitative framework to assess hazardous and nuclear waste risks, and served as the senior
health risk assessor in the New York City office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
Superfund Program. Dr. Moses received her Bachelor of Arts (Chemistry) and her Master of
Science (Environmental Health Sciences) degrees from Case Western Reserve University. She
received her Doctorate of Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences) from Columbia
University School of Public Health.
JERRY NELSON is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI). He is an agricultural economist with over 30 years of professional and research
experience in the areas of agriculture, policy analysis, land use and climate change. As co-leader
of IFPRI’s global change program, he is responsible for developing IFPRI’s research in climate
change modeling and spatially explicit assessments of potential adaptation and mitigation
programs and policies. His previous professional activities includes leading the drivers of
ecosystem services efforts of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, undertaking research that
combines biophysical and socioeconomic data in quantitative, spatially-explicit modeling of the
determinants of land use change, and understanding the effects of agricultural, trade and
macroeconomic policies on agriculture and land use. Before joining IFPRI, Dr. Nelson was a
professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign (1985-2008) and an Agricultural Development Council specialist at the
University of the Philippines, Los Baños. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1982.
PHILIP PARDEY (Committee Member) is Professor of Science and Technology Policy in the
Department of Applied Economics and Director of the International Science and Technology
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Practice and Policy (InSTePP) center at the University of Minnesota. Previously he was a senior
research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC where he
led the institute’s Science and Technology Policy Program, and prior to 1994 at the International
Service for National Agricultural Research in The Hague, Netherlands. He is a graduate of the
University of Adelaide, Australia, and obtained a doctoral degree in agricultural and applied
economics from the University of Minnesota. His research deals with the finance and conduct of
R&D globally, methods for assessing the economic impacts of research, and the economic and
policy (especially intellectual property) aspects of genetic resources and the biosciences. Dr.
Pardey is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and a Distinguished
Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
ROBERT PAARLBERG is the Betty Freyhof Johnson ‘44 Professor of Political Science at
Wellesley College, and a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has
consulted on African agriculture recently for IFPRI, USAID, COMESA, the Department of
State, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also a member of the Board of
Agriculture and Natural Resources at the National Research Council and has published books on
agricultural trade negotiations, environmentally sustainable farming, U.S. foreign economic
policy, the reform of U.S. agricultural policy, and policies toward genetically modified crops.
His latest book (2008) is titled "Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of
Africa."
PRABHU PINGALI (NAS) (STS Roundtable Member) is Head of Agricultural Policy and
Statistics Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He was formerly an economist and
Director of the Division of Agricultural and Development Economics at the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) from 2002-2007. He was the President of the International
Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) from 2003-2006, Vice-President of the IAAE
from 1997-2000, and chairman of the program committee for the 24th International Conference
of Agricultural Economists. Dr. Pingali has over 25 years of experience in analyzing food,
agriculture and development policy in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Before joining FAO, Dr.
Pingali was Director of the Economics Program at the Economic Program at the International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico, the International Rice Research
Institute at Los Baños, Philippines, and the World Bank’s Agriculture and Rural Development
Department. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Food Research Institute, and an
Affiliate professor at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños. Dr. Pingali has authored
nine books and over 90 referred journal articles and book chapters on food policy, technological
change, productivity growth and resource management in the developing world. An Indian
national, Dr. Pingali earned a Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University in 1982.
DYLAN RICHMOND (Staff) is a Research Assistant for the Science and Technology for
Sustainability Program (STS) at the National Academies. Before joining the Academies the fall
of 2010, he attended Georgetown University and graduated with a B.A. in Economics in May
2010. While at Georgetown, Dylan was an editor for The Georgetown Voice.
AMIT ROY has been the president and chief executive officer of IFDC since 1992. Under his
leadership, IFDC’s programs have broadened to help create sustainable agricultural productivity
around the world, alleviating hunger and poverty and ensuring global food security,
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environmental protection and economic growth. Dr. Roy joined IFDC in 1978 as a chemical
engineer and special projects engineer. Dr. Roy was instrumental in organizing the Africa
Fertilizer Summit in Abuja, Nigeria, in June 2006. In June 2008, he spoke before the Hunger
Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives about the role agro-inputs such as fertilizers and
seeds have in providing long-term solutions to the recent food crisis and global food security. Dr.
Roy is now leading IFDC in the development of the next generation of fertilizers, which will
more effectively release nutrients when crops need them. He is also working to expand IFDC’s
successful fertilizer deep placement technology (FDP) from Bangladesh to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Before coming to IFDC, Roy was a process engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta. Dr. Roy earned a doctorate and a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Georgia
Tech. There, he served as a charter member of the Lions Club and was elected to the Graduate
Student Senate. He received a bachelor’s degree with honors in chemical engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India.
JENNIFER SAUNDERS (Staff) is a Program Officer for the Science and Technology for
Sustainability Program (STS) at the National Academies. Ms. Saunders has over 9 years of
experience with the National Academies, including working on studies related to the health
concerns of veterans with the Institute of Medicine’s Board on the Health of Select Populations
and on several studies related to toxicology and risk assessment with the National Research
Council's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. She also has experience as an
analyst with the Government Accountability Office, where she planned and conducted
evaluations of health-related agency programs in response to Congressional requests. Ms.
Saunders earned a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Mary Washington and a
Masters of Public Policy and Masters of Public Health from The George Washington University.
EMMY SIMMONS (Committee Member) is currently an independent consultant on
international development issues, with a focus on food, agriculture, and Africa. She serves on the
boards of several organizations engaged in international agriculture and global development
more broadly: the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, the International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI), the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the
Washington chapter of the Society for International Development (SID), and the Africa Center
for Health and Human Security at George Washington University. Ms. Simmons co-chairs the
Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability at the National Academies of Science
and leads a Roundtable working group on Partnerships for Sustainability. She completed a career
of nearly 30 years with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2005, having
served since 2002 as the Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade,
a Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed position. Prior to joining USAID, she worked in
the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs in Monrovia, Liberia and taught and conducted
research at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. She began her international career as a
Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines from 1962-64. She holds an M.S. degree in agricultural
economics from Cornell University and a B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee.
KOSTAS STAMOULIS (Committee Member) is the Chief of Agricultural Sector in
Economic Development Service (ESAE) and Agricultural and Development Economics Division
(ESA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Dr. Stamoulis’s major
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focuses include: the potential of the rural economy for growth and poverty reduction; changes in
food systems and commercialization with effects on smallholders, rural development and rural
poverty; analysis of trends in rural development analysis and practice; seed markets as a means
of promoting the sustainable utilization of crop genetic resources; introducing food security
objectives and policies in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; and behavioral economics and
development policy. His field activities include: introducing food security and agriculture-related
objectives and strategies in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Processes in Kenya, Mozambique,
Tanzania, Bhutan, Laos and Cambodia; and constraints facing small farmers in supply
supermarkets in Honduras and El Salvador. Dr. Stamoulis holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural
Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and MS in Agricultural Economics from
the University of Georgia.
MAXIMO TORERO is the Division Director of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division
at the International Food Policy Research Institute, leader of the Global Research Program on
Institutions and Infrastructure for Market Development and Director for Latin America. He has
fifteen years of experience in applied research and in operational activities. In this capacity as
director and research program leader, he directs the activities of an IFPRI unit that conducts
research, with special emphasis on M&E of infrastructure and rural development interventions in
urban and peri-urban areas through the use of randomized experimental design. Prior to joining
IFPRI, he was a senior researcher and member of the executive committee at Group of Analysis
for Development (GRADE). He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los
Angeles, Department of Economics and held a postdoctoral fellow position at the UCLA
Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). He is also a professor on leave at the Universidad
del Pacífico, and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of Bonn, Germany.
DENNIS TREACY (Committee and STS Roundtable Member) is Senior Vice President,
Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, Smithfield Foods, Inc. As Senior Vice
President, Mr. Treacy oversees and directs the company’s sustainability and corporate affairs
programs, including corporate communications and government relations. Since his arrival at
Smithfield, he has helped enhance Smithfield’s environmental, community and sustainability
policies and initiatives to become a meat industry leader in Corporate Social Responsibility
programs. Mr. Treacy has more than 30 years of experience in both the public and private
sectors, having previously served as: Director, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality;
Manager of Government Affairs, Browning-Ferris Industries; Assistant Attorney General of
Natural Resources, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia; and Advisor for regulatory and
policy issues at the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and West Virginia Assistant
Attorney General, Environmental and Energy Division. Mr. Treacy received his law degree
from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and his
Bachelor’s Degree in Fisheries and Wildlife from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Mr. Treacy is a member of the Virginia State Bar and West
Virginia State Bar. He serves or has served as a member on dozens of statewide and national
boards and commissions.
LAURIAN UNNEVEHR (Committee Member) is Director of the Food Economics Division,
Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Laurian has
published over 60 journal articles and book chapters on topics in consumer demand and food
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policy as well as numerous other publications and outreach reports. She is recognized for
original contributions in measuring the consumer benefits from agricultural research, the
changing structure of U.S. food demand, and the cost-benefit trade-offs in food health regulation.
With coauthors, she has received the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)
awards for Quality of Communication and for Publication of Enduring Quality, recognizing
contributions in food policy and food demand. Laurian was inducted as a fellow of AAEA in
July 2009. Prior to coming to ERS to lead the Food Economics Division, Laurian was on the
faculty of the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) from 1985 to 2008. Laurian received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the
Food Research Institute, Stanford University and her B.A. in economics from the University of
California at Davis.
PAUL VLEK (Committee Member), a Soil Scientist, is Professor and Director of the
Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Center for Development Research at the
University of Bonn, a federally funded multidisciplinary research and teaching institute
concerning sustainable development issues. Prior to accepting this post, he was a Professor and
Director at the Institute of Agronomy in the Tropics at Georg-August University in Goettingen.
Dr. Vlek is Editor-in-Chief of “Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems,” and Editor of “Applied
Botany” and “Basic and Applied Ecology.” Dr. Vlek’s research interests include the world’s soil
resources, agricultural use of land, and the evidence of ongoing degradation and desertification
of the soil in many food-producing regions.
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