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Barbara Vinceti
Title: Scientist, forest genetic resources Duty post: Bioversity HQ, Rome, Italy Barbara Vinceti, an Italian national, joined Bioversity International in January 2002 as an Associate Expert. Initially, she was responsible for planning and the coordination of research activities on conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Latin American countries. Then
Céline Termote
Title: Research Support Officer, Nutrition and Marketing Diversity Programme Duty post: Bioversity International HQ, Rome, Italy Céline Termote, a Belgian citizen, joined Bioversity International in January 2013 as Research Support Officer at the Nutrition and Marketing Diversity Programme. After obtaining her Master’s degree in Applied Biological Sciences, she started her career as
Jeske van de Gevel
Title: Associate Scientist, Genetic Diversity Duty post location: Nairobi, Kenya Jeske, a Dutch national, joined Bioversity International in 2012. As part of the Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem services programme at Bioversity International, Jeske will work on varietal diversification for climate change adaptation and the Seeds for Needs initiative in East Africa under the
Gea Galluzzi
Gea Galluzzi is an Italian national who joined Bioversity International in August 2010 as an Associate Expert. She is based in the Regional Office for the Americas, in Cali, Colombia.
Stephan Weise
Dr. Stephan Weise is Deputy Director General for Research at Bioversity International, a position he has held since August 2011.
Jérôme Duminil
Title: Associate scientist, Forest Genetic Resources programme and SAFORGEN network coordinator Duty post: Sub-regional office for Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon By integrating population genetics, phylogeny, phylogeography, ecology and molecular evolution approaches, Jérôme's research activities focused on the evolution of the genetic diversity of tropical African plant species (Free University of Brussels, supervised
Jacob van Etten
Title: Senior Scientist, Theme Leader Climate Change Adaptation Duty post location: Americas Regional Office, Cali, Colombia Dr Jacob van Etten, a Dutch national, joined Bioversity in 2012 to lead the work on climate change adaptation. He has worked for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Mali, and for
Prem Narain Mathur
Title: Senior Scientist and South Asia Coordinator Prem N. Mathur, an Indian national, has been working at Bioversity International for the past 17 years and is currently the South Asia Coordinator. He is part of several Bioversity International global and regional project activities. These include: promoting the use of plant genetic
Maarten van Zonneveld
Maarten van Zonneveld, a Dutch national, joined Bioversity International in 2006. He is associate scientist of Bioversity working on conservation of economic plant diversity and characterization and selection of underutilized plant genetic resources.
Ehsan Dulloo
Dr Dulloo is the leader of Bioversity International's Conservation and Availability Programme. Dulloo was born in 1957 in Mauritius and first joined Bioversity in 1999.
Agustin B. Molina
Dr Agustin “Gus” B. Molina is a Philippine national who joined Bioversity International in 1998; Gus leads Bioversity International’s banana research efforts in the Asia Pacific region.
Evert Thomas
Evert Thomas, a native of Belgium, joined the AMS office in April 2011. His main task consists of enhancing the conservation and use of forest genetic resources, among others through the use of spatial diversity analysis. Evert is also contributing to the thematic study on ecological restoration for FAO’s State of the World Forest Genetic Resources.
Per Rudebjer
Mr Per Rudebjer, a Swedish national, joined Bioversity International in September 2006 as Scientist,Knowledge Management and Capacity Strengthening.
Ronnie Vernooy
Ronnie Vernooy, a Dutch national, joined Bioversity International in October 2011. He has worked on questions related to the conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity for more than 25 years in countries such as China, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Mongolia, Nepal, Nicaragua and Vietnam.
Bruce Cogill
Bruce Cogill is the program leader for Nutrition and Marketing of Diversity at the Rome headquarters of Bioversity International. He has an extensive experience in management, food and nutrition policy, research, programs and practice.
Marleni Ramirez
Dr. Marleni Ramirez, a Peruvian national, is the Regional Director for The Americas Office of Bioversity International.
Joseph Jojo Baidu-Forson
Title: Regional Director Duty post location: Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Office, Nairobi, Kenya. Joseph, or Jojo, as his friends and colleagues call him, is a Ghanaian and joined Bioversity International in April 2006, as the Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa. Before Bioversity, he worked at the United Nations University Institute for Natural
Vincent Johnson
Vincent joined Bioversity in April 2008 since when he has been working as the Process Manager and Science Editor for Bioversity’s Commodity Genetic Resources, Productivity and Value-Chains program in Montpellier, France. The program focuses on three ‘commodities’ of special importance to poor smallholders- banana and plantain (Musa), cocoa and coconut.
Fabrice DeClerck
Fabrice Declerck joined Bioversity in January 2012 to lead the Programme in Agroecological Intensification and Risk Management. Fabrice is a landscape and community ecologist whose primary research interests centre on the ecological mechanisms that drive the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes and how these mechanisms can be used to increase the livelihoods farming communities of developing countries.
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