AGRF 2019 Speakers
Christian Byron
Head of Supply Chain and Plantations, Unilever Africa
Dr. Yemi Akinbamijo
Executive Director, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin
Founder and chief executive, blueMoon
Dr. Kamau-Rutenberg
Member of the Malabo Montpellier Panel
Simon Winter
Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation
Ken Lohento
Senior Programme Coordinator, ICT4Ag, CTA
Dr. Jemimah Njuki
Senior Program Specialist, IDRC
Dr. Abebe Haile-Gabriel
Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa, FAO
Stefan Schmitz
Deputy Director-General and Commissioner "One World - No Hunger" Initiative - German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Maura Barry
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Food Security, USAID
Naoko Ishii
CEO & Chair of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Martin Kropff
Director General, CIMMYT
Sherrie Silver
Choreographer and UN IFAD Advocate for Rural Youth
Mr Eazi
Artist and IFAD #DanceforChange Advocate
Elwyn Grainger-Jones
Executive Director, CGIAR System Organization
Jerome Barbaron
Head, Africa Middle East territory, Sygenta
Bolaji Akinborois
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Cellulant corporation
Dr. Christian Witt
Senior Program Officer - Agricultural Development team, Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation
Debisi Araba
Director for Africa, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT),
Denis T. Kyetere
Executive Director, AATF
Jai Shroff
Global CE, UPL Limited
Kamal Deen Yakub
CEO, TROTRO Tractor Limited
Ndidi Nwuneli
Managing Partner, Sahel Consulting
Fengying NIE
Deputy Director General, Agricultural Information Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
Dr. Shenggen Fan
Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Sir Gordon Conway
Member, MaMo Panel & Professor of International Development at Imperial College London
Xu Xiuli
Professor of International Development, Dean of China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture (CISSCA)
Ambassador Dr. Kenneth M. Quinn
President, World Food Prize Foundation
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin
Distinguished Global Fellow. Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Joost Oorthuizen
Executive Director at The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
Peter Veal
Head of Marketing and Commercial Excellence in Africa and Middle East at Syngenta
Gerald Otim
CEO, Ensibuuko
Jehiel Oliver
Founder, Hello Tractor
Khadija Mohamed Churchill
Founder and CEO, Kwanza Tukule
Gerda Verburg
Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition Movement
Micheal Zondani Katambo
Minister of Agriculture, Zambia
Lawrence Haddad
Executive Director, GAIN
Dr. Gérardine Mukeshimana
Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Rwanda
Alima Bawah
Co-Founder/COO at Cowtribe
Su Kahumbu Stephanou
CEO and Founder of Green Dreams TECH Ltd
Reeta Roy
President and CEO, MasterCard Foundation
Mostafa TERRAB
Chairman and CEO of the OCP Group
H.E Hailemariam Desalegn
Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Tony Blair
Executive Chairman of the Institute for Global Change Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr. Ousmane Badiane
Africa Director, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Dr. Agnes M. Kalibata
President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Strive Masiyiwa
Chairman and Founder, Econet and Board Chair, AGRA
Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto
Minister of Food and Agriculture, Ghana
Gilbert F. Houngbo
President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Sara Mbago-Bhunu
Regional Director-East and Southern Africa, International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)
Michael Hailu
Director, CTA
Svein Tore Holsether
President & CEO - Yara International