Speakers 
Professor Andreas Eshete
President, Addis Ababa University
Professor Calestous Juma
Director, Science, Technology and Globalization
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Dayuan XUE (PhD)
Chief Scientist on Biodiversity
Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science
and
Professor and Chief Scientist
Minzu University of China
Professor Diran Makinde
Director, AU-NEPAD Agency African Biosafety Network of Expertise
Fernando Quezada
Biotechnology Center of Excellence Corporation
Florence Wambugu, (PhD)
CEO, Africa Harvest
Frank Shotkoski (PhD)
Director, Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II
Cornell University
Professor Gebisa Ejeta
Purdue University, the 2009 World Food Prize Winner
Dr. Hans R. Herren
President, Millennium Institute
Judy Chambers, (PhD)
Director, Program for Biosafety Systems/IFPRI
Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Director, the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Leonard Gianessi
CropLife Foundation
Professor Robert Paarlberg
Wellesley College, Harvard Fellow
Segenet Kelemu, (PhD)
Director, BecA-ILRI Hub
Tilahun Zweldu (PhD)
Regional Coordinator
Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II, Cornell University
Professor William Hutchison
Head, University of Minnesota Dept. of Entomology