Kundhavi Kadiresan, who holds a PhD in Economics and an MA in International Business, is Assistant Director-General and FAO’s Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific. She has more than 25 years of managerial experience in economic and policy development. Kadiresan, an economist, has spent most of her professional career with the World Bank Group. She has worked in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, where she led senior-level policy dialogues and managed large loan portfolios.

Musdhalifah Machmud is engaged as Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, Republic of Indonesia. She manages for Food and Agriculture, including strategic policies which made by the Ministry. Her coordination and strategic policies includes rice, red meat, corn, soya bean, palm oil, cocoa, tea, rubber, sugarcane, biofuels, horticulture products, fertilizer, seeds, and other agriculture issues. Between 1988 and 2003, she served the Ministry of Forestry.

Sikandar an agriculturist by profession, who also previously served as Minister of State for Food, Agriculture and Livestock. He has been elected Member of District Council Multan, and served as member of Punjab Provincial Assembly in 1985, 1988 and 1990 and as a member of the National Assembly in 1997 and 2002.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs

Dr. William D. Dar is a champion of the poor especially the small farmers, fisherfolks and agripreneurs. His servant leadership, guided by solid and enunciated principles of food security, has bestowed laurels such as the “Lifetime Achievers Award” during the Asia Leaders Award 2020, “Lifetime Contributor Award” by the Asia CEO Awards, and “Presidential Award” accorded by the University of the Philippines Los Baños Alumni Association.

Thierry is an agricultural economist by training, a development expert by experience. Over the past 4 years, he has worked extensively on climate change and green economy related matters. In 2002, he joined the International Cooperation Center for Agronomic Research and Development (CIRAD) and was seconded to the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), a French think-tank. There, he initiated and then led its Foreign Aid Policy Program.

Thierry is an agricultural economist by training, a development expert by experience. Over the past 4 years, he has worked extensively on climate change and green economy related matters. In 2002, he joined the International Cooperation Center for Agronomic Research and Development (CIRAD) and was seconded to the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), a French think-tank. There, he initiated and then led its Foreign Aid Policy Program.

Subhadeep is an investment professional with almost a decade of first hand early stage venture investing experience across high impact sectors like agri-tech, food, rural supply chains, and rural focused alternate energy and farmer focused fin-tech startups in India. He leads the Delhi office for Omnivore and is a Partner in the investment team.

Srinivasan is a Principal Climate Change Specialist and Climate Change Focal Point for ADB’s Southeast Asia Department more than 25 years of experience in the field. He chairs the ADB Climate Smart Agriculture Working Group and serves as ADB focal for the Forest Investment Program, ADB focal for stakeholder engagement in climate investment funds and as ADB’s alternate focal for Pilot Program for Climate Resilience.