Glenn Navarra Baticados is a professor, mentor, innovation champion, and startup founder. He is a passionate advocate of evidence-based entrepreneurship and inclusive agribusiness for more than 25 years. He is a pioneer mentor of GoNegosyo and for the ASEAN Mentors Network (AMEN). He is a well-sought mentor and speaker on entrepreneurship, business, and innovation. He also served as Director of the UPLB Technology Transfer and Business Development Office from 2015 to 2021 transforming the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem of UPLB.

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.

Ms. Hanaa Singer-Hamdy is the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka and leads the UN Country Team of 22 Resident and Non-Resident UN Agencies. She is the representative of the UN Secretary-General in Sri Lanka.

Ms. Singer-Hamdy has over three decades of experience with the UN, having worked across development and humanitarian contexts in various senior management and strategic leadership roles.

Abdur Rahim Siddiqui assumed duties as Representative and Country Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Sri Lanka in April 2021, overseeing the management of WFP’s operations in the country. Mr. Siddiqui brings extensive knowledge from the fields of food and nutrition security with a strong background in emergency operations.