Dr. Fazle Hasan Abed
Founder & Chairperson
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
 Bangladesh

Mr. Tom Arnold
Chief Executive Officer
Concern Worldwide
 Ireland

Mr. Sartaj Aziz
Vice-Chancellor
Beaconhouse National University and
Former Finance Minister, Foreign Minister and Agriculture Minister
Government of Pakistan
 Pakistan

Mr. Lennart Båge
Former President
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
 Italy

Rev. David Beckmann
Director
Bread for the World
 USA

Ms. Catherine Bertini
Former Chair
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
 USA

Dr. Keith A. Bezanson
Former Director
Institute of Development Studies
United Kingdom

Dr. Norman E. Borlaug
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1970 and Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture
Texas A&M University
 USA

Mr. Lester Brown
President
Earth Policy Institute
 USA

Dr. Margaret Catley-Carlson
Chairperson
Global Water Partnership
 USA

Prof. Chen Chunming
Senior Advisor and President
Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine
 China

Dr. Bernd Eisenblätter
Managing Director
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) Germany

Dr. Timothy Evans
Assistant Director General
World Health Organization
 Switzerland

Dr. Michel Griffon
Scientific Director
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
 France

Mrs. Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis
Assistant Secretary-General
Assistant Administrator
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
Director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean USA

Mr. Carl Hausmann
President and CEO
Bunge North America
 USA

Dr. Dean R. Hirsch
President and CEO
World Vision International
 USA

H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor
Former President
Republic of Ghana
 Ghana

Mr. Vijay Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
Society for the Elimination of Rural Poverty
 India

Mr. David Malone
President
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
 Canada

Mr. Peter McPherson
President
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
and Founding Co-Chair
Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
 USA

Dr. Moïse Mensah
Former Minister of Finance
 Benin

Mr. Harris Mutio Mule
Executive Director
Top Investment and Management Services (TIMS) Limited
 Kenya

H.E. Yoweri K. Museveni
President
Republic of Uganda
 Uganda

H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President
Federal Republic of Nigeria
 Nigeria

Lord Ron Oxburgh of Liverpool
Chairman, D1 Oils plc
United Kingdom

Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
Secretary-General
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
 Switzerland

Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy
Cornell University
 USA

Ms. Mary Robinson
Director
Ethical Globalization Initiative
 USA

Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
Director
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
 USA

Dr. Ursula Schäfer-Preuss
Vice President
Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
 Philippines

Prof. Amartya Sen
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1998 and Master of Trinity College
United Kingdom

Dr. Ismail Serageldin
Director
Library of Alexandria
 Egypt

Ms. Katherine Sierra
Chairperson
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
and Vice President for Sustainable Development
The World Bank
 USA

Ms. Kathy Spahn
President and Chief Executive Officer
Helen Keller International
 USA

Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
Chairman
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
 India

Mr. M. Syeduzzaman
Former Minister of Finance
 Bangladesh

Dr. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur
Executive President
African Business Roundtable and Chairperson NEPAD Business Group
 Nigeria

Ms. Diane Vincent
Former Executive Vice President
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
 Canada

Prof. Joachim von Braun (Ex-Officio)
Director General
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
 USA

H.E. Abdoulaye Wade
President
Republic of Senegal
 Senegal

Dr. Vo-Tong Xuan
Rector
Angiang University
 Vietnam

Prof. Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006 and
Founder
Grameen Bank
 Bangladesh