Staff

Maureen Mecozzi

Director, Communications

Headquarters

Sognigbe N’Danikou

Scientist - Traditional vegetables conservation and utilization

Eastern and Southern Africa

Ramakrishnan M. Nair

Global Plant Breeder – Legumes; Officer-in-Charge - South and Central Asia

South Asia/Central Asia

Mamadou Kabirou Ndiaye

Regional Director

West and Central Africa - Dry Regions

Thibault Nordey

Agronomist – Modeling; seconded from CIRAD, France

Eastern and Southern Africa

Justus Ochieng

Scientist – Impact Evaluation and Scaling

Eastern and Southern Africa

Dirk Overweg

Director of Finance

Headquarters

Srinivasan Ramasamy

Acting Regional Director – South and Central Asia; Lead Entomologist and Flagship Leader -- Safe and Sustainable Value Chains

South Asia/Central Asia

Ralph Roothaert

Officer-in-Charge; Flagship Leader, Healthy Diets

Eastern and Southern Africa

Roland Schafleitner

Head, Molecular Genetics; Flagship Leader, Vegetable Diversity & Improvement

Headquarters

Pepijn Schreinemachers

Lead Scientist – Impact Evaluation; Flagship Leader – Enabling Impact

East and Southeast Asia

Tae Cheol Seo

Scientist - Vegetable Physiology; seconded from RDA, Korea

Headquarters

Paola Sotelo-Cardona

Scientist-Entomology

Headquarters

Wolfram Spreer

Production Horticulturist, CIM integrated expert

South Asia/Central Asia

Maarten van Zonneveld

Genebank Manager

Headquarters

Marco Wopereis

Director General

Headquarters

Ray-yu Yang

Nutritionist

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