HarvestPlus is a joint venture between the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The Boards of Trustees of CIAT and IFPRI have delegated the responsibility for oversight of HarvestPlus to a Project Advisory Committee (PAC), which acts in effect as a Board of Trustees for HarvestPlus. The PAC includes the two Directors-General of CIAT and IFPRI, one Board member each from the Boards of Trustees of CIAT and IFPRI, as well as experts from developing and developed countries, covering a range of disciplines.

Senior Advisor

M.S. Swaminathan
UNESCO Cousteau Chair in Ecotechnology & Chairman
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
India

Members of the Program Advisory Committee (PAC)

Jeroen A. Bordewijk
Senior Vice President (Retired)
Unilever Corporation, Supply Chain Excellence Programme
Netherlands

Wanda Collins
Director
USDA Plant Sciences Institute
USA

Ruben Echeverria
Director General
CIAT
Uruguay

Shenggen Fan
Director General
IFPRI
United States

Richard (Dick) Flavell
Chief Scientific Officer
Ceres Inc.
United Kingdom

Mahabub Hossain
Executive Director
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
Bangladesh

Anna Lartey
Head of Department (former)
Nutrition and Food Science Department, University of Ghana
Ghana

Peter McPherson (PAC Chair)
President
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)
United States

Patrick J. Murphy
Vice-President (Retired)
Bank of America
United States

Michele Veeman
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Department of Rural Economy
Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics
University of Alberta
Canada

Emeritus Members of the Program Advisory Committee

Estrella Alabastro
Former Secretary of Science and Technology
Government of the Philippines
Philippines

Michael Lipton
Research Professor, Poverty Research Unit
University of Sussex
United Kingdom

Ruth Oniang’o
Founder, Rural Outreach Program AND Editor-in-Chief
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
Kenya

Maria Jose Amstalden Sampaio
Former Chief Scientific Advisor, EMBRAPA
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply
Brazil

Peter Sandoe
Director
Center for Bioethics & Risk Assessment,
University of Copenhagen
Denmark

Suttilak Smitasiri
Head
Nutrition and Happiness Promotion Unit
Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University
Thailand

Barbara Underwood
Retired, Adjunct Professor of Nutrition
Columbia University
USA

Joachim von Braun
Director
Center for Development Research
University of Bonn
Germany

Joachim Voss
Former Director General
CIAT
Canada

Mark Wahlqvist
Director, International Health & Development Unit
Asia Pacific Health & Nutrition Centre
Monash University
Australia