Dr. Eriyatno is an agricultural and system engineer, has degree M.Sc and Ph.d from Michigan State University. He is Professor and Senior Researcher at Bogor Agricultural University – Indonesia. His expertise is in Policy Studies and Technology Transfer. At present, he is the President Director of the Center of System, an international consultant agency with extensive R & D experience including with ASEAN, ADB, World Bank and FAO. Formerly, he was Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Cooperative and SME, and Head of Regional Bureau at the National Planning Agency.

Dr. Jang Heo (Ph.D. in Sociology) got his bachelor and master degrees at the Seoul National University majoring in sociology. After spending several years as junior researcher at the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI), Seoul, Korea, he studied environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S., and got the doctoral degree in December 1997. Returning back to the KREI, he has implemented researches and published many research papers on social change and welfare of rural areas of Korea and sustainable agricultural policy.

Dr. Abdul Ghafoor is working as Associate Professor in the Institute of Business Management Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Currently he is also looking after the duties of Director of the institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural Marketing. Food entrepreneurship, value chain management and decent work practices including gender related issues in agriculture are some other areas of his interest.

Shristi is an agritech enthusiast and a co-founder of a blockchain-based agtech company “AgriClear.” With more than three years of experience with multiple projects in Rumsan Group of Companies, she has successfully piloted the platform with five local agro-enterprises and two renowned INGOs working in the agro sector in Nepal to track multiple agro-products.