2007 Speakers

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Akinwumi A. Adesina Interim Vice President Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, The Rockefeller Foundation Daniel Annerose Founder and CEO Manobi Corporation Norman Borlaug President Sasakawa Africa Association Eva Bratholm Communications Director NORAD Dyborn Chibonga Chief Executive Officer National Small Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM) John Corbett Chief Executive Officer AWhere, Inc. Sean de Cleene Vice President, Africa Programs Yara International ASA Ides de Willebois Director, Eastern and Southern Africa Division International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Marc Debois Steering Committee Member Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Maïmouna Diallo-Seydi Agribusiness and Trade Advisor CMA/WCA CAADP Pillar II M. Baba Dioum Coordinator General of CMA-WCA and Facilitator for CAADP Pillar 2 Conference of West and Central African Ministers of Agriculture Hans Eenhoorn Member, UN Millennium Task Force on Hunger and Professor Wageningen University, The Netherlands Jean-Louis Ekra President African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Poul Engberg-Pedersen Director General Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD) Thorleif Enger President and Chief Executive Officer Yara International ASA Dennis Garrity Director General World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Paulo Gomes Managing Partner, Constelor Group Former Executive Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank Coillard Hamusimbi Liaison Officer Zambia National Farmers Union Stephen R. Harris Market Linkages Specialist TechnoServe Peter Hartmann Director General International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA-Nigeria) Thomas Hobgood United States Director, Office of Agriculture, Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade Bureau U.S. Agency for International Development Carl N. Hodges Founder and Chairman Seawater Foundation Abubakar Jijiwa Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) Chairman, Broadcasting Organizations of Nigeria (BON) Monty P. Jones Executive Director Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) Riz Khan Worldwide Director and Host, “Riz Khan” Al Jazeera International Patrick Willie Khembo Managing Director Chemicals and Marketing Co. Ltd. Andrew Kidd Head of Growth and Inequalities Team DFID Pan Africa Strategy Department Bart Jan Krouwel Managing Director Sustainability & Social Innovation and Deputy General Manager Rabobank Nederland Suresh Kumar Special Advisor The Clinton Foundation

Lloyd Le Page Sustainable Agriculture and Development Manager Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., a DuPont Company Eduardo Luis Leao de Sousa Senior Economist, Agricultural Unit The World Bank Bernard Lietaer Economic Systems Designer and Research Fellow, Center for Sustainable Resource Development, University of California, Berkeley Richard Mkandawire Agricultural Advisor New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Eusebius Juma Mukhwana Executive Director SACRED Africa Charles Mulinge Chief Executive Officer Farmchem Limited Patrick Mutuo Science Coordinator and Team Lead Millennium Villages Project Cris Muyunda Senior Agricultural Advisor/Lead CAADP Coordinator COMESA Secretariat Salvador Namburete Minister of Energy, Government of Mozambique President, Forum of Energy Ministers of Africa (FEMA) Kanayo Nwanze Vice President International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Ndidi O. Nwuneli Founder and Executive Director LEAP Africa Emeka Okafor Founder and Author Timbuktu Chronicles Josephine A. Okot Founder and Managing Director Victoria Seeds Limited Rolf Olsen Chief Executive Officer Weber Shandwick - Continental Europe Demetri Pappadopoulos Chief Executive Officer D1 Oils Africa (Pty) Ltd. Marco A. Quinones Africa Program Director Sasakawa Africa Association Karambu Ringera Founder and President International Peace Initiatives Kjell Roland Managing Director Norfund Jeffrey Sachs Director The Earth Institute at Columbia University Pedro A. Sanchez Director, Millennium Villages Project and Director, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program The Earth Institute at Columbia University G. Edward Schuh Regents Professor Emeritus University of Minnesota Howard Shapiro Director, Plant Science and External Research Mars Incorporated Dana-Lee Smirin Special Assistant to the Dean for Sustainability & New Initiatives, College of Natural Resources University of California at Berkeley Erik Solheim Minister of International Development Norway David Stainforth Tyndall Centre Research Fellow Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, Oxford University J. Christopher Toe Minister of Agriculture Republic of Liberia Philos Terje Tvedt Research Director, Center for Development Studies University of Bergen Olukorede Willoughby Deputy Chief Executive New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Peter Wilson Author, “Make Poverty Business” and Director, Libra Advisory Group

• Jon Bøhmer
  Kyoto Energy Ltd.
• Joyce Cacho
  The Corporate Council on Africa
• Luc Creemers
  Yara International ASA
• Newaye Christos Gebre-Ab
  Office of the Prime Minister
• Patrick Kabambe
  Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
• Charles D. Keiser
  Chiquita Brands, Inc.
• Frederick Kwoba
  DENI Africa
• Hans-Olav Raen
  Yara International ASA
• Abou Sabaa
  African Development Bank Group
• Photy Tzellios
  Shoprite Holdings Ltd.
• Joachim von Braun
  International Food Policy Research Institute
• Stephen M. Wassira
  Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives