Our Team
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Dr Carol Ibe
Founder & President
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Dr Chloé Orland
Non-Executive Director
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Lyn Kouadio
Social Scientist & Analyst
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Catherine Danmaigona
Plant Breeder & Course Facilitator
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Ayomide Olukorede
Coordinator, JR Biotek Mentoring Program
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Dr Opeoluwa Oyewole
Coordinator, JR Biotek Mentoring Program
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Velma Okaron
Project Coordinator, Uganda
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Benjamin Narh-Madey
Project Coordinator, Ghana
Advisory Board
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Dr Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee
Principal Investigator & Senior Staff Member, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA
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Prof Dr Mizeck Chagunda
Head of the Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry and Managing Director of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute), University of Hohenheim, Germany
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Prof Marian D. Quain
Chief Research Scientist at CSIR-Crops Research Institute and Associate Professor, CSIR College of Science & Tech, Ghana
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Dr Paul Adams
Director of Applied Genomics Centre, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
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Dr Nicola Patron
Principal Investigator, Plant Molecular and Synthetic Biology, Earlham Institute, UK
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Prof John Carr
Head of Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
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Dr Sibongile Mafu
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
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Dr Jales Fonseca
Plant Breeder, Genetics & Plant Breeding, Texas A&M University, USA
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Dr Cy Tamanaha
R&D Engineer, Industrial Designer, Agricultural Engineer and Board of Director at JR Biotek Foundation, USA
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Mainda Kiwelu
Senior Product & Marketing Manager, Enterprise Mentor at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, UK
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Chigozie Ogwuegbu-Stephens
Juris Doctor, Senior Risk Professional & Board of Director at JR Biotek Foundation, USA
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Jeff Zucker
C-Suite Leader, Executive-in-Residence, Strategic Advisor, USA