Steering Committee

Name	Institute	Career	Country
Deborah Bossio	CIAT		Kenya
John Howieson	Murdoch University	Prof. Howieson is a rhizobiologist who has been improving inoculants for application to agricultural legumes since 1982. He was the Foundation Director of the Centre for Rhizobium Studies, as well as the Australian National Rhizobium Program (1997-2007), which is based at...	Australia
Mariangela Hungria	EMBRAPA	Mariangela Hungria is an agronomist with a PhD in Soil Microbiology. She has worked since 1982 for Embrapa (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), and has been located at the Center of Soybean, in Londrina, State of Paraná,...	Brazil
Ken Giller	Wageningen University and Research centre (WUR)	Ken Giller is Professor Plant Production Systems at Wageningen University, Department of Plant Sciences. He leads a group of scientists with profound experience in systems analysis and simulation modelling of scenarios of change. Ken’s research has focused on nitrogen in tropical legumes...	The Netherlands
John Lynam	(Observer) BMGF project evaluator		Kenya
Anne G. Mbaabu	AGRA		Kenya
Nteranya Sanginga	CIAT-TSBF	Nteranya Sanginga is the Director of the Tropical Soil Biology Fertility Institute of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT-TSBF) since 2002. Prior to that he was the leader of the savanna program at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), principal...	Kenya
Louise Sperling	CIAT	Louise Sperling is a currently a Principal Researcher at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). She has managed and technically backstopped projects and programs in over 25 countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Her focus is in on impact-oriented plant...	Tanzania
Ramadjita Tabo	FARA	Ramadjita Tabo, a Chadian citizen, is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) based in Accra, Ghana. Prior to that he was the Assistant Director of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in...	Ghana
Prem Warrior	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)	Prem Warrior joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in March 2008. Prior to this role, he was in an executive leadership role managing global technology team and directing external collaborations at Valent BioSciences Corporation, USA (subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical Corporation, Japan...	USA

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