CGIAR System Council Composition http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council Page 1 of 5 Version, 18 September 2024 20 Voting members* * As per the last update on 18 September 2024 ** Denotes one of the five developing country constituencies of the System Council *** Denotes Funders that meet the criteria as per Annex B, CGIAR System Framework No Constituency/ Country Member Alternate (optional) 1 African Development Bank Martin Fregene Director Department of Agriculture and Agro-Industry Innocent Musabyimana Chief Agricultural Technologies Officer and TAAT Coordinator 2 Australia Wendy Umberger Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Bosibori Bett Acting Director, Multilateral Engagement, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) 3 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Martien van Nieuwkoop Senior Director, Agricultural Development Ruben G. Echeverria Senior Advisor, Agricultural Development 4 Canada Pending confirmation of representation Flora Mak Deputy Director Agriculture and Food Systems Division (MSF) Global Affairs Canada 5 Crop Trust & IFAD Stefan Schmitz Executive Director of The Crop Trust Ron Hartman Director for Global Engagement, IFAD 6 East Asia and Pacific** (China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand) CHINA Zhai Lin Deputy Director General, Department of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) INDONESIA Pending confirmation of representation Leadership, Ex-officio non-voting members Chair of the System Council (Serving a second 4-year term effective from 12 July 2020) Co-Chair Juergen Voegele Vice President for the Planet Vice Presidency at the World Bank Appointed by the System Council for each meeting from amongst its voting members http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council CGIAR System Council Composition http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council Page 2 of 5 Version, 18 September 2024 No Constituency/ Country Member Alternate (optional) 7 European Commission Christophe Larose Head of Sector – Sustainable Agriculture Directorate-General for International Partnerships European Commission 8 Germany Jens Busma Head of Agriculture, rural development, BMZ Felicitas Röhrig Senior Policy Officer, BMZ 9 India Himanshu Pathak Secretary (DARE) and Director General (ICAR) Sanjay Garg Additional Secretary (DARE) & Secretary (ICAR) 10 Latin America and Caribbean** (Brazil, Colombia and Peru) PERU Christian Alejandro Garay Torres Vice-Minister of Agrarian Development Policy and Supervision BRAZIL Pedro Luiz Oliveira de Almeida Machado Coordinator, Embrapa Labex Europe, Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation. Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply 11 The Netherlands Timmo Gaasbeek Senior Policy Officer Food Security, Department for Inclusive Green Growth, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 12 Norway Daniel van Gilst Senior Adviser, Department for Climate and Environment, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) Lutgart Lenaerts Senior Adviser, Department for Climate and Environment, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) 13 South Asia** (Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) Pending confirmation of representation BANGLADESH Nazmun Nahar Karim Executive Chairman, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) SRI LANKA http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council CGIAR System Council Composition http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council Page 3 of 5 Version, 18 September 2024 No Constituency/ Country Member Alternate (optional) 14 Sub-Saharan Africa** (Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan and Uganda) NIGERIA Garba Hamidu Sharubutu Executive Secretary Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) KENYA Eliud Kireger Director General Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) SUDAN 15 Sweden AnnaKarin Norling Senior Research Advisor, Unit for Research Cooperation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Madeleine Jönsson Unit for Research Cooperation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) 16 Switzerland Manfred Kaufmann Global Programme Climate Change and Environment Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) 17 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Laura Munro Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) Alan Tollervey Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) 18 United States Robert Bertram Chief Scientist, Bureau for Food Security, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Jerry Glover United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 19 West Asia & North Africa** (Türkiye and Iran; Member and Alternate rotates each 2 years) TÜRKIYE Mustafa Altuğ Atalay Director General for Agriculture Research and Policies, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry IRAN Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi Director General of Academic Relations and International affairs, Agricultural Research, Education & Extension Organization (AREEO) 20 World Bank Renaud Seligmann Director of Strategy and Operations, Sustainable Development Practice Group Shobha Shetty Global Director of Agriculture and Food Global Practice http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council CGIAR System Council Composition http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council Page 4 of 5 Version, 18 September 2024 Additional Temporary Voting members*** No Constituency/Country Member Alternate (optional) 20 Belgium Carol Durieux Advisor food systems & food security, FPS Foreign Affairs - Development Cooperation Boudewijn Vandenbossche Advisor food systems & food security, FPS Foreign Affairs – Development Cooperation 21 Denmark Hanne Carus Chief Adviser, Department for Evaluation, Learning and Quality 23 Ireland Patrick McManus Deputy Director, Policy Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland 24 United Arab Emirates Mariam Almheiri Chair, International Affairs Office, Presidential Court Fatema AlMulla Director of Partnerships and Special Projects at the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment Ex-officio non-voting members The following 5 System Council seats are additional to the 2 ex-officio non-voting members held by the System Council Chair and the Co-Chair, the latter of whom is appointed by the System Council each meeting from amongst the voting members. No Organization Member 24 Chair of the System Board Lindiwe Majele Sibanda Chair of the CGIAR System Board 25 Executive Director of the CGIAR System Organization Ismahane Elouafi CGIAR Executive Managing Director and Executive Director of the CGIAR System Organization 26 Representative appointed by the Alliance/Centers - 1 Roel Merckx Representative of the Alliance/Center Board Chairs 27 Representative appointed by the Alliance/Centers - 2 Mark Smith Representative of the Alliance/Center Directors General 28 Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Selvaraju Ramasamy Head, Research and Extension Unit (AGDR) Pending nomination of official member http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council CGIAR System Council Composition http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council Page 5 of 5 Version, 18 September 2024 Active Observers Active Observers have the right to participate in deliberations of the System Council and to propose agenda items and make presentations for such deliberations. Active Observers do not have the right to vote. No Organization Member Alternate (optional) 30 Global Forum on Agricultural Research Ravi Khetarpal Chair Hildegard Lingnau Executive Secretary 31 CGIAR Independent Science for Development Council Holger Meinke ISDC Chair Invited Guests Representatives of each of the following are invited to System Council meetings: No Organization Member Alternate (optional) 32 France (holding voting rights) Bernard Hubert Chair, CRAI (Commission pour la Recherche Agronomique Internationale) Jean Albergel Executive Secretary, CRAI (Commission pour la Recherche Agronomique Internationale) 33 Japan Akiko Tejima Senior Deputy Director, Global Issues Cooperation Division, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kosuke Minakuchi Deputy Director, Global Issues Cooperation Division, International Cooperation, Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 34 Mexico Juan Bernardo Orozco Sanchez Director of Economic Studies of the Agri-Food Sector, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development • The Chair of the System Council’s Assurance Oversight Committee • The Chair of the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment • The Trustee of the CGIAR Trust Fund (the World Bank) http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-governance/system-council Innocent MusabyimanaChief Agricultural Technologies Officer and TAAT Coordinator