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 is composed of 17 members: the two Directors-General of CIAT and IFPRI, one Board member each from the Boards of Trustees of CIAT and IFPRI, and 13 senior, independent, scientific experts from developing and developed countries, covering a range of disciplines.

Members of the Program Advisory Committee

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

Ruben Echeverria
Director General
CIAT
Colombia

Shenggen Fan
Director General
IFPRI
United States

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

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

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

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

Ruth Oniang’o
Founder, Rural Outreach Program (ROP)
And Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND)
Kenya

Maria Jose Amstalden Sampaio (Vice-Chair)
Chief Scientific Advisor, EMBRAPA
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply
Brazil

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

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

Barbara Underwood (Chair-Program Committee)
Retired, Adjunct Professor of Nutrition
Columbia University
United States

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

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

Qifa Zhang
Professor and Director
National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement
Huazhong Agricultural University
China