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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="100%" bgcolor="#cdb6a4"> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"><img src="../../img/dummy.gif" alt="" height="20" width="20" border="0"></td> <td height="20"><img src="../../img/dummy.gif" alt="" height="20" width="20" border="0"></td> <td height="20"><img src="../../img/dummy.gif" alt="" height="20" width="20" border="0"></td> <td height="20"><img src="../../img/dummy.gif" alt="" height="20" width="20" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="#0" /> <table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><a href="#8"><b>Pamela K. Anderson</b></a></td> <td></td> <td><a href="#6"><b>Bernhard Herold</b></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#9"><b>Andrew Bennett</b></a></td> <td></td> <td><b><a href="#7">Alwin Kopše</a></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#3"><b>Cary Fowler</b></a></td> <td></td> <td><a href="#1"><b>François Pythoud</b></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#5"><b>Anil K. Gupta</b></a></td> <td></td> <td><a href="#2"><b>Geoff Tansey</b></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#4"><b>Geoffrey Hawtin</b></a></td> <td></td> <td><a href="#10"><b>Petro Terblanche</b></a></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><br> <br> </td> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td valign="top" height="20"> <p><a name="8"><span class="titelwhite">Pamela K. Anderson</span></a><br> <br> <i>Academic Training</i><br> <br> HARVARD UNIVERSITY, School of Public Health, Department of Population Sciences, D.Sc. in Population Sciences with concentration in vector entomology, 1991.<br> <br> HARVARD UNIVERSITY, School of Public Health, Department of Population Sciences, M.Sc. in Population Sciences with concentration in human ecology, 1984.<br> <br> UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Department of Entomology, M.Sc. in Entomology, 1982.<br> <br> NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Department of Biology, B.A. in Biology with concentration in theoretical ecology, 1977.<br> <br> <i>Appointments</i></p> <table width="460" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="90">CHAIR</td> <td>CGIAR Systemwide Program for Integrated Pest Management</td> <td valign="top" width="60">2003 -</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="90">DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH</td> <td valign="top">Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)<br> Lima, Peru</td> <td valign="top" width="60">2002 -</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="90">SENIOR SCIENTIST</td> <td valign="top">Centro Internacional de Agricultural Tropical Coordinator, CGIAR Whitefly IPM Project<br> Cali, Colombia</td> <td valign="top" width="60">1996-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="90">RESEARCH CONSULTANT</td> <td valign="top">Harvard University<br> Department of Population Sciences<br> Emerging diseases<br> Boston, MA, USA</td> <td valign="top" width="60">1995-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="90">ADVISOR</td> <td valign="top">Federation of American Scientists<br> Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)<br> Emerging plant diseases<br> Washington, D.C.</td> <td valign="top" width="60">1995-1999</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="90">RESEARCH CONSULTANT</td> <td valign="top">Fundacion de Educacion Superior (FES)<br> Research Division<br> Epidemiology of emerging diseases<br> Cali, Colombia</td> <td valign="top" width="60">1995-1996</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="90">PROJECT COORDINATOR</td> <td valign="top">Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC)<br> Student education and faculty training in insect-transmitted plant pathogens<br> National Agricultural University (UNA)<br> Managua, Nicaragua</td> <td valign="top" width="60">1984-1995</td> </tr> </table> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="9"><span class="titelwhite">Andrew Bennett</span></a><br> <p>Andrew Bennett is Executive Director of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. He is a member of the Councils of the Overseas Development Institute, London and the Royal Agricultural Society of England. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for International Forestry Research, Indonesia. He was formerly Director: Rural Livelihoods and Environment for the British Department for International Development where he was responsible for advice to UK Ministers on policy and programmes in the fields of livelihoods, natural resources, environment, sustainable development and research. He has over 35 years experience in international development and disaster management, having worked in development programmes in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific and the Caribbean. He also has extensive experience of international negotiations on natural resources, research, environment and development.<br> </p> <p>Andrew is married with one daughter and relaxes by walking and gardening.<br> <br> <br> </p> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="7"><span class="titelwhite">Alwin Kopše</span></a><br> <br> Lawyer (University of Berne), MSc in Public Policy and Management (University of London, SOAS); senior legal and policy adviser, Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOA).<br> <br> Alwin Kopše has joined FOA in June 2002 where he is, among other things, responsible for the ratification process of the International Treaty (IT). He is a member of the FAO Expert Group on the Terms of the Standard Material Transfer Agreement of the IT. Alwin Kopše is the head of the Swiss delegation for the upcoming IT-meetings as well as for the negotiations which are held within the Intergovernmental Working Group of the FAO for guidelines with regard to the progressive realization of the right to adequate food. He is a member of Swiss delegations to several international bodies, such as the WIPO and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).<br> <br> From 1998-2002 Alwin Kopše worked for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs on biodiversity and biotechnology related matters. He co-chaired the Contact Group of the 6th Conference of the Parties to the CBD that finalized the Bonn Guidelines on Access and Benefit Sharing. He was invited expert to the Expert Panel of the CBD on access and benefit sharing and a member of the group of ten experts, convened by the Executive Secretary of the CBD, mandated to develop draft elements for the use of terms of the Bonn Guidelines. He took part in the negotiations leading to the adoption of the IT.<br> <br> From 1996-1998 Alwin Kopše was a research fellow at the Institute for European and International Economic Law of the University of Berne. He carried out research in WTO-related issues.<br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="5"><span class="titelwhite">Anil K. Gupta</span></a><br> <br>BSc (Agri Hons), M.Sc. Genetics (HAU, Hisar) Ph.D Management, (Kurukshetra University)<br> Kasturbhai Lalbhai Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMA and Executive Vice Chairperson, National Innovation Foundation<br> Fellow (National Academy of Agricultural Sciences)<br> Fellow, The World Academy of Art and Science, California, 2001<br> <a href="http://www.Iimahd.ernet.in/%7eanilg" target="_blank">www.Iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg</a><br> <br> Research interests include expansion of global as well as local space for grassroots innovators to ensure recognition, respect and reward for them; blending excellence in formal and informal science; protection of intellectual property rights; ethical issues in conservation and prospecting of biodiversity; research management linking innovations, investments and enterprise; leadership for social change; organic farming; socio-political transformation towards a meritocratic society; creating knowledge network at different levels for augmenting grassroots green innovations.<br> <br> Editor of Honey Bee Newsletter, which promotes people to people networking and represents the voice of creative grassroots innovators. Has published extensively in national and international journals and magazines. Consultant to several national and international organizations.<br> <br> Established two NGOs viz., Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN) as incubator to link innovation, investment and enterprise, to support the Honey Bee Network and to scale up and convert grassroots innovations into viable products. Has also helped set up the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, ( with USD5 mill corpus) to help India become an innovative and creative society and a global leader in sustainable green technologies. Helping in setting up first National Micro Venture and Innovation Fund of usd one million at NIF.<br> <br>Received Pew Conservation Scholar Award 1993, University of Michigan, USA given to ten environmental scholars around the world, One of the 50 Stars of Asia award ( one among five in public opinion leaders) , Business Week, 2001; Asian Innovation Award Gold from Far Eastern Economic Review (October 26, 2000) for coordinating SRISTI and Honey Bee Network; and nominated for World Technology Award, (Environment) 2001, UK. Chosen by Managing Intellectual Property magazine, July 2003, as one of the fifty most influential persons in IP field around the world.<br> <br>His mission is to demonstrate the potential of knowledge rich-economically poor people in taking developing societies out of the morass of mediocrity and lead these on to a path of sustainable progress.<br> <br> <a href="../../pdf/List_of_studies_of_Prof_Gupta_2003.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="../../img/pdf_logo.gif" alt="" height="18" width="16" border="0"> Download list of studies</a><br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td valign="top"><a name="3"><span class="titelwhite">Cary Fowler</span></a><br> <br> <i>Current Positions:</i><br> <br> Professor, and Director of Research. Centre for International Environment and Development Studies (NORAGRIC), Agricultural University of Norway (Ås, Norway)<br> Senior Advisor to the Director-General. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (Rome, Italy)<br> Senior Technical Advisor. Global Conservation Trust (Rome, Italy)<br> <br> <i>Academic Training:</i><br> <br> Ph.D., Sociology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.<br> B.A. Honours (first class), Sociology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.<br> <br> <i>Professional Experience:</i><br> <br> Professor Fowler is the author / co-author of 5 books on agriculture, agricultural development and genetic resources, the latest being "Unnatural Selection: Technology, Politics and Plant Evolution." He has published more than 75 articles in a diverse range of publications, including: Development Policy Review, Food Policy, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, Outlook on Agriculture, Journal of Technology Law and Policy, Jurimetrics, and Science.<br> <br> As a Senior Officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Professor Fowler headed the Secretariat that drafted the first FAO Report on the State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources. He led negotiations for the FAO Global Plan of Action on Plant Genetic Resources, adopted by 150 countries in 1996, and was Secretary of the FAO 4th International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources. He served as senior advisor to the Secretary-General of the World Food Summit in 1996, a position he also held at the Summit's follow-up conference in 2001.<br> <br> Since 1997, Professor Fowler has represented the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in FAO negotiations for the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. He has also represented Norway on the Convention on Biological Diversity's Panel of Experts on Access and Benefit-Sharing. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), chairing their committee on programs and research. In the 1980s, he was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to the National Plant Genetic Resources Board. Professor Fowler is past chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.<br> <br> Cary Fowler has been a visiting professor at the University of California – Davis, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University.<br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="4"><span class="titelwhite">Geoffrey Hawtin</span></a><br> <br> Geoffrey Hawtin is the Interim Executive Secretary of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, based at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Untied Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy. Until July 2003 he was Director General of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) also based in Rome, a position he has held since the institute was established as an independent Centre of the CGIAR in 1994. Prior to that he was Director of IPGRI's predecessor organization, the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR). Geoff obtained both his first degree (in Agricultural Sciences) and Ph.D. from Cambridge University, U.K., carrying out his doctoral thesis research on the genetic diversity of soya bean while working as a teaching assistant at Makerere University, Uganda. He joined Ford Foundation's Arid Lands Agricultural Development Programme (ALAD) in 1974 as a plant breeder, sponsored by the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), living first in Lebanon and then in Egypt. In 1976 Geoff was appointed Programme Leader of the Food Legume Improvement Programme of the newly established International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Syria. Other positions he has held have included those of ICARDA's Deputy Director General for International Cooperation, and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Sciences Division of IDRC based in Ottawa, Canada, where he was responsible for research programmes in agriculture, agricultural economics, post-harvest technology, forestry and fisheries. In addition to his current position, Geoff is on the Board of Directors of Future Harvest and Chair of the Board of Future Harvest-UK. He has dual British and Canadian citizenship, has broad farming experience in U.K. and Denmark, and has authored more than 80 scientific and technical publications.<br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="6"><span class="titelwhite">Bernhard Herold</span></a><br> <br> Agricultural Economist (ETH Zurich). Bernhard Herold is presently responsible for the program "Food and Agriculture" at the <a href="http://www.bernedeclaration.ch" target="_blank">Berne Declaration</a>. The Berne Declaration is an independent Swiss NGO specialized in promoting more equitable, sustainable and democratic North-South relations; mainly through research, advocacy and building public awareness. It is one of the Swiss NGOs most active with respect to the CBD and the FAO IT and their access and benefit sharing provisions, with a strong focus on IPR issues.<br> <br> Before joining the Berne Declaration in January 2003 Bernhard Herold worked for Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs during 11 years. From 1996 to 2002 he was an expert for trade in agricultural products and participated in various bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations. From 1992 to 1996 he was responsible for Switzerland's bilateral economic relations to Central and Eastern European Countries and negotiated among other a number of bilateral debt rescheduling agreements and debt-for-nature-swap agreements.<br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="1"><span class="titelwhite">François Pythoud</span></a><br> <br> Plant biologist by training, PhD in science; Senior scientific adviser at the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape<br> <br> François Pythoud has worked for the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape on biotechnology and biosafety related issues since 1990. He has been involved in the implementation of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) since 1995. Head of the Swiss delegation to the Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), he was closely involved in the negotiation and adoption of the Bonn Guidelines on ABS in 2002. He is now the Swiss CBD National Focal Point for ABS. <br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="2"><span class="titelwhite">Geoff Tansey</span></a><br> <br> Geoff Tansey is an independent writer and consultant. He is part-time consultant to the <a href="http://www.geneva.quno.info" target="_blank">Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva</a> on its TRIPS programme and has also worked on a number of IPRs, food and development issues recently including for the UK Department for International Development and the Food Ethics Council, of which he is a member. He helped found the journal Food Policy in the mid-1970s, has worked on various agricultural development projects, as a freelance writer and broadcaster, and co-authored the prize-winning book The Food System: A Guide. He is also an honorary visiting fellow in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford.<br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr height="20"> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"><a name="10"><span class="titelwhite">Petro Terblanche</span></a><br> <br> Dr. Petro Terblanche is the Executive Director of CSIR Bio/Chemtek, one of the eight Divisions of the CSIR. Before choosing a career in Management, she specialised in research on the exposure and impacts of air pollution.<span class="titelwhite"><br> <br> </span>Bio/Chemtek is an organisation whose core business is the management of technological innovation in the fields of biotechnology, speciality and fine chemicals, agroprocessing and bioprospecting.<br> <br> Apart from her Executive responsibilities, she also holds the following non-Executive Board positions:<br> <ul><li> Chairman of the Board of Biotechnology Partnerships for Development - BioPAD Biotechnology Regional Innovation Centre.<br></li><li> Board member: Egoli Bio-incubator (Biotechnology business incubator).<br></li><li> Board member: Sugar Milling Research Institute.<br></li><li> Board member: Dysselsdorp Liquorice (Community empowerment export business).<br></li><li> Board member: Biosys Plant Extracts (Pty) Ltd (Essential oils export business).<br></li><li> Board member: Mbuyu Biotech (Pty) Ltd (JV company between Bioventures and Bio/Chemtek)<br></li></ul> Dr Terblanche was the lead representative for CSIR in the development of the benefit-sharing model for Hoodia (P57) with the San people.<br> <br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="20"><a href="#0"><span class="sLink">[top]</span></a></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> </table>
