Commissioners

CoSAI had 21 Commissioners, all originating from the Global South.

CoSAI Chair

Ruben G. Echeverría
Director General Emeritus, CIAT
Dr. Ruben Echeverría is Director General Emeritus at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).

CoSAI Commissioners

Akissa Bahri
Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Tunisia
Ayşegül Özkavukcu
Business Development Manager, Migros Ticaret A.Ş., Turkey
David Simon
Professor of Development Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Grethel Aguilar
IUCN Regional Director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
Haris Gazdar
Director & Senior Researcher, Collective for Social Science Research (CSSR), Karachi, Pakistan
Irene Annor-Frempong
Director for Research and Innovation, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Ghana
Jennifer Baarn
Head of Partnerships, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Jianguo "Jack" Liu
Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, University Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University
Julio A. Berdegué
Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO
Madiodio Niasse
Independent Consultant, Senegal
Maurício Lopes
Senior Researcher, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - Embrapa Agroenergia, Brazil
P. V. Vara Prasad
Distinguished Professor of Crop Ecophysiology, Kansas State University, Director, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable Intensification, Kansas State University, USA
Pablo Tittonell
Principal Research Scientist, National Council for Science and Technology (CONICET), Argentina
Rasheed Sulaiman V
Director, Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP), India
Rodomiro Ortiz
Chair Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Sara Mbago-Bhunu
Director, East and Southern Africa Division, IFAD, Rome, Italy
Uduak Edem Igbeka
Country Support Manager, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Business Network
Uma Lele
President Elect, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
Varad Pande
Investment Partner, Omidyar Network, India
Ximena Rueda
Associate Professor at the School of Management, Universidad de Los Andes; Senior Research Fellow, Environment for Development (EfD) Colombia; Deputy Chief-of-Party, Nuestra Tierra Próspera, Colombia