Our Leaders
Staff List
The HarvestPlus global team of more than 120 people take a multidisciplinary, multisectoral approach to advancing nutrient-enriched staple crops through effective partnerships, with the goal of improving lives by addressing hidden hunger worldwide. Their skillsets span seed and food value chains; crop research and development; and nutrition research; policy engagement; communicating evidence; and technological innovation.
Office of the CEO
Arun Baral
Chief Executive Officer
Benjamin Uchitelle-Pierce
Special Assistant to the CEO
External Affairs
Maggie Biruri
Head, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships
Josephine Boyle
Senior Research Mobilization Specialist
James Decker
Senior Communications Designer
Faith Okiror
Communications Specialist, Uganda
Research & Development
Jen Foley
Senior Program Manager
Victor Taleon
Research Fellow
Mahalinagam Govindraj
Senior Scientist
Ivan Mauricio Hurtado
Research Associate, Crop Development
Finance & Administration
Jocelyn (Olyn) Panlilio
Business Manager, Budgets, Contracts and Grants
Edwin Guil
Budget and Contracts Analyst
Pilar Rickert
Administrative & Project Monitoring Coordinator
Policy & Program Strategy
Rewa Misra
Head, National Policy and Innovative Finance
Bho Mudyahoto
Head, Monitoring and Evaluation
Hussain Munawar
Consultant/Technical Assistant
AFRICA
Katharina Diehl
Scaling Specialist
Paul Omollo Owino
Assistant to Project Manager, Kenya
Democratic Republic of Congo
Toussaint Kendenga
Senior Research Associate, Monitoring and Evaluation
Michael Bakanyize
Senior Accounts Analyst
Jean Pierre Mbagurire
Country Manager
Fabrice Tippy Kialanda Kinavuidi
Driver
Mwango Kuhima Mbuta
Senior Field Assistant, Kwilu
Crispin Mukanya Tshamwanda
Senior Research Assistant, Nutrition
Ruth Bena Munkiba
Coordinator, Administration
Willy Soko
Driver, Democratic Republic of Congo
Dan Mazenga Ndayizeye Sumbu
Research Associate
Benjamin Tshibang
Senior Research Assistant, Nutrition, Kwilu
Monique Lilas Misenga Mpinda
Research Associate, Nutrition
William Ndeko Ndozondula
Research Associate, Demand Creation
Nigeria
Bolanle Bridget Akinribido
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
John Fakunle Aremu
Regional Policy Advisor
Cyril Omofuma Inegbedion
Project Team Lead, FCDO Propcom+
Isang Pius James
Finance Manager
Hussan Inuwa Abubakar
State Coordinator
Hadiza Umar Abubakar
State Coordinator
Aminu Ibrahim Abubakar
State Coordinator
Muritala Ajibola Dauda
Field Assistant/Driver
Abdullahi Adam Idris
State Coordinator
Oluwaseyi Mary Esanju
Administrative and Finance Assistant
Tanzania
Ester Jimmy Simfukwe
Project Associate
Zimbabwe
Sakile Kudita
Country Manager, Zimbabwe; Research Fellow
Tinashe Gwaze
National Consultant, Monitoring and Evaluation
Isabella Nyamhingura
Associate Officer, Finance
Asia
Bangladesh
Wahidul Amin
Senior Program Manager, Bangladesh
Md. Zakiul Hasan
Divisional Coordinator
Abu Sayed Al Muktadir
Assistant Manager, Budget, Finance & Administration
Mohammad Nurulla
Office Assistant
Md Ziaur Rahman
Driver
Md Mozibar Rahman
Coordinator, Seed Systems and Marketing
India
Prateek Uniyal
Country Manager
Suja Johnson
Finance Coordinator
Amit Kumar
Administrative Coordinator
Birendra Mendali
Senior Project Manager
V. Pravalika
Data Associate
Suyashi Purwar
Lead Resource Mobilization and Partnerships, Asia
Chitti Venkata (CV) Ramesh
Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
K. Yadi Reddy
Office Assistant
Sanya Sharma
Program Management Support
Pakistan
Makhdoom Hussain
Consultant/Technical Assistant
Munawar Hussain
Consultant
Latin America and Caribbean
Ivan Mauricio Hurtado
Research Associate, Crop Development