Key Speakers
RS Paroda
Former Secretary, DARE & DG, ICAR, Govt. of India & Founder Chairman, TAAS, New Delhi, India
ML Jat
Secretary, DARE & DG, ICAR Govt. of India, New Delhi, India
Ismahane Elouafi
Executive Managing Director CGIAR, Montpellier, France
T Mohapatra
Chairman, PPV&FRA Govt. of India, New Delhi, India
Renu Swarup
Former Secretary to Govt. of India, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, New Delhi, India
Cathy Reade
Chair of the ICRISAT Governing Board, Australia
Julie Borlaug
Member, President Borlaug Foundation and Advisor, WFPF, USA
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
World Food Laureate, WorldFish, Malaysia
Soumya Swaminathan
Chairperson, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India
Plenary/Lead Speakers
Prabhu Pingali
Director, TCI, Ithaca, USA
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
World Food Laureate, WorldFish, Malaysia
Agnes Kalibata
Founder and Chair, C4Impact
Nitya Rao
Professor, UEA and Director, NISD, UK
Shireen Aseem
Vice President, ARC, Egypt
Nicoline de Haan
Gender and Youth Accelerator Director of CGIAR Platform, ILRI, Kenya
Britt Groosman
Senior Vice President, EDF, New York, USA
Maria Beatriz
President, (AAPRESID), Co-Founder, RMR, Argentina
Invited Speakers
Josephine Okot
Vice Chair, IFDC and MD, Victoria Seeds Ltd., Uganda
Maureen Miruka
Director, GEYSI, CIMMYT, Mexico
Usha Barwale Zehr
Executive Director, Grow Indigo, India
Dina Najjar
Senior Gender Scientist, ICARDA, Morocco
Akriti Sharma
CEO, ZTM & BPD Unit, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India
Krishna Srinath
Former Director, ICAR-CIWA, Bhubaneshwar, India
Mamta Sharma
Principal Scientist, ICRISAT, India
Panelists
Alessandra Galiè
Team Leader-Gender, ILRI, Kenya
Timothy J. Krupnik
Country Representative, CIMMYT, Bangladesh
Raka Saxena
Senior Adviser (Agriculture Policy), NITI Aayog, India