IRRI welcomes new research chief

Los Baños, Philippines – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has appointed Jacqueline d’Arros Hughes, current AVRDC Deputy Director General – Research, as its eighth deputy director general for research. She will assume her duties on 30 March 2016. Jackie brings to IRRI a combination of agricultural research leadership and management expertise, with a career spanning more than three decades in Asia, Africa, and Europe. At IRRI, she will oversee the institute’s global research agenda in plant breeding, genetics, crop and environmental sciences, and the social sciences.