Governance
and leadership

Board of trustees 2022

• Helen Hambly Odame (Canada), Chair, Board of Trustees
• Barbara H. Wells (USA)†, Director General (until Feb. 16, 2022)
• Oscar Ortiz (Peru), Director General (ad interim) (from Feb. 17, 2022)
• Sanjay Agarwal (India), Trustee; Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
• Julio C. Alegre (Peru); Trustee; Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
• Patrick Caron (France); Member Ex-Officio, CGIAR System Board, University of Montpellier
• Rodney D. Cooke (UK); Board Member (until June 2022)
• Shenggen Fan (China); Member Ex Officio, CGIAR System Board, China Agricultural University in Beijing
• Marco Ferroni (Switzerland), Member Ex-Officio, Chair, CGIAR System Board
• Neal Gutterson (USA): Member Ex Officio, CGIAR System Board, Radicle Growth
• Jorge Luis Maicelo Quintana (Peru); Trustee, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agraria (until March 2022)
• Jorge Juan Ganoza Roncal (Peru), Trustee, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agraria (from June 2022)
• Alyssa Jade McDonald-Baertl (Germany): Member Ex Officio, CGIAR System Board, Blyss GmbH
• Alice Ruhweza (Uganda); Member Ex Officio, CGIAR System Board, World Wide Fund for Nature
• Hilary Wild (Ireland); Member Ex-Officio, CGIAR System Board, WaterAid UK
• Lindiwe Majele Sibanda (Zimbabwe), Member Ex-Officio, CGIAR System Board, Professor, Director and Chair of the African Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA)

Management committee

• Barbara H. Wells†, Director General (until Feb. 16, 2022)
• Oscar Ortiz, Deputy Director General for Research and Development (until Feb. 16, 2022)
• Oscar Ortiz, Director General a.i. (from Feb. 17, 2022)
• Hugo Campos, Deputy Director General for Research and Development (from Feb. 17, 2022)
• Paul Demo, Regional Director for Africa
• Selim Guvener, General Counsel
• Carla Lazarte, Director of People and Organizational Development
• Xiaoping Lu, Deputy Director General of CIP and Director of CIP China Center for Asia Pacific Region (until Sep. 2022)
• Jianmin Xie, Director of CIP China Center for Asia Pacific Region (from Oct. 2022)
• Samarendu Mohanty, Regional Director for Asia
• Michelle Rodrigo, Lead Project Award and Implementation Office
• Amanda Rodriguez, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
• James Stapleton, Head of Communications and Public Awareness
• Pietro Turilli, Director of Resource Mobilization (until May. 2022)
• Melissa Hambly, Director of Resource Mobilization (ad interim) (from May. 2022)

Science leaders

• Barbara H. Wells†, Director General (until Feb. 16, 2022)
• Oscar Ortiz, Deputy Director General for Research and Development (until Feb. 16, 2022)
• Hugo Campos, Deputy Director General for Research and Development (from Feb. 17, 2022)
• Maria Andrade, Leader for Sweetpotato Breeding in Africa
• Vania Azevedo, Head of the Genebank
• Ian Barker, Global Potato Agri-food Systems Program Director
• Guy Hareau, Social and Nutritional Sciences Leader
• Simon Heck, Global Sweetpotato Agri-food Systems Program Director
• Jan Kreuze, Crop and Systems Science Division Leader
• Jan Low, Principal Science
• Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze, Genetics, Genomics and Crop Improvement Division Leader