Speakers
Conference Co-Chairs
Conference Speakers
- Alex Ablaev, President, Russian Biofuels Association
- Aly Abou-Sabaa, Director, Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department, African Development Bank
- Abdul-Karim Adam, Senior Planning Officer, Nanumba North District, Ghana, West Africa
- Michel Barnier, Member of the European Parliament, Former Minister of Agriculture, France
- Caroline Begg, Director of Stage (Internship), Farm Management and Technology Program, and Faculty Lecturer, Plant Science, McGill University
- Mamaru Tsidku Belete, Head, Bureau of Water Resources Development, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia
- Henk-Jan Brinkman, Senior Advisor for Economic Policy, United Nations World Food Programme
- Jonathan Campaigne, Executive Director, PRIDE AFRICA-DrumNet, Nairobi, Kenya
- Harmel Cazeau, Coordonateur National, Conseil National sur la Sécurité Alimentaire, Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Ressources Naturelles et du Développement Rural, Port-au-Prince, Haïti
- Gail Chmura, Director, Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3), Quebec
- Hon. Michael Chong, MP, Wellington-Halton Hills
- Neil Conklin, Farm Foundation
- Dave Conley, Senior Consultant, Founding Partner, The Aquaculture Communications Group, LLC
- Jim Cornelius, Executive Director of Canadian Foodgrains Bank
- Mark Curtis, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University
- Jose Geraldo Eugenio de França, Executive Director, Embrapa, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
- François Dagenais, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
- Christopher Delgado, Coordinator, Global Food Crisis Response Program, and Strategy and Policy Adviser for Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank
- Dereje Biruk Gebremedhin, Team Leader, Sustainable Water Harvesting and Institutional Strengthening (SWHISA) Project, CIDA Project, Ethiopia
- Joe Dewbre, Senior Agriculture Policy Analyst, Development Division of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Shi-You Ding, Senior Researcher, national Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado
- Bert Drake, Plant Physiologist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Victor Dukhovny, Director, Scientific Information Center, Interstate Coordination Water Commission (SIC ICWC)
- Marco Ferroni, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
- Sam Gameda, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Hafez Ghanem, Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Vincent Giard, Vice President, Quebec Operations, Farm Credit Canada
- M. Gopalakrishnan, Secretary General, ICID
- H.E. Professor Iyorwuese Hagher, Nigerian High Commissioner
- Michael Hamp, Senior Technical Advisor, Rural Finance, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Douglas Hedley, Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
- Dyno Keatinge, Director General, AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center
- John Kennelly, Dean, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta
- Christian Lacasse , Président général, Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA)
- Jean-Paul Laforest, Doyen-Dean, Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation, Université Laval
- Jean Lebel, Environmental and Natural Resource Management, IDRC
- Ronghou Liu, Professor, Director, Biomass Energy Engineering Research Centre School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Chandra A. Madramootoo, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University
- David Malone, President, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Paul Mapfumo, Project leader and Regional Coordinator for the Soil Fertility Consortium for Southern Africa, CIMMYT-Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Yvon Martel, Chief Scientist, International, Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Bano Mehdi, Brace Centre for Water Resources Management, McGill University
- Ephraim Mukisera, Director, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI),Nairobi, Kenya
- Anwar Naseem, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University
- Ikenna Onyido, Vice-Chancellor, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Nigeria
- Philip Oxhorn, Associate Professor and Founding Director, Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID)
- Robert Patterson, Senior Liaison Officer, Liaison Office for North America, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
- Caroline Pestieau, Former Governor, ICRISAT
- René Provost, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Director, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University
- Vijaya Raghavan, Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University
- Mario Renaud, Executive Director, Centre for International Studies and Cooperation and Co-President, International Agriculture Alliance
- Marilyn Scott, Director, McGill School of Environment, and Associate Professor, Institute of Parasitology, McGill University
- Aly Shady, Senior Water Advisor, Canadian International Development Agency
- Said Silim, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- Don Smith, Chair, Plant Science Department, McGill University
- Galina Stulina, SANIRI and the Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission Water Coordination, Uzbekistan
- Peter Todd, Dean, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
- Maximo Torero, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Daniel Uza, Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture Makurdi, Nigeria
- Diane Vincent, Vice-Chairperson of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal
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