LIST OF STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS INDIVIDUALS INVITED ON THEIR PERSONAL CAPACITY Honorary Chair of the Steering Committee Prof M S Swaminathan Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area Chennai - 600 113 India Ariel Alvarez-Morales Executive Secretary CIBIOGEM (Comisión Intersecretarial de Bioseguridad de los Organismos Genéticamente Modificados) San Borja 938 Col. Del Valle Del. Benito Juárez México D.F. 03100 Heike Baumüller Senior Research Fellow Energy, Environment & Development Programme The Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House 10 St James's Square, London, SW1Y 4LE United Kingdom John Benzie Environmental Research Institute University College Cork Lee Road Cork Ireland Rowland Burdon Senior Scientist, Genetics Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd) Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park, 49 Sala St Private Bag 3020, Rotorua Mail Centre Rotorua 3046 New Zealand Eugenio Cap Director, Instituto of Economics and Sociology INTA (National Institute for Agricultural Technology) Coordinador (interino) Área Estratégica Economía y Sociología Cerviño 3101, 2nd floor Buenos Aires Argentina Zhangliang Chen Vice President Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People’s Republic of China James Dargie 1 Board of ILRI Brunnstubengasse 43 2102 Bisamberg Austria Guy Van den Eede Head of Unit "Biotechnology and GMOs" European Commission - Joint Research Centre Institute for Health and Consumer Protection Ispra (Varese) I-21020 Italy Dominic Glover Post-doctoral Fellow Technology and Agrarian Development Group Wageningen University Building no. 201, Hollandseweg 1 6706 KN Wageningen The Netherlands Kathleen Jones U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition HFS-4 Paint Branch Parkway College Park, MD 20740 USA Shawn Kaeppler Professor of Agronomy University of Wisconsin 453 Moore Hall 1575 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Daniel Baskaran Krishnapillay Chief Executive Officer Pulau Banding Foundation Malaysia Harry Kuiper RIKILT- Institute of Food Safety Wageningen UR; P.O. Box 230 6700 AE Wageningen; Building n°123; Bornsesteeg 45 6708 PD Wageningen The Netherlands Harinder Makkar Institute for Animal Production in the Tropics and Subtropics (480b) University of Hohenheim 70593 Stuttgart Germany Arthur da Silva Mariante Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology P.O. Box 02372 70770-900 Brasilia - DF Brazil 2 Victor Martinez Assistant Professor Faculty of Veterinary Sciences Universidad de Chile Avda. Santa Rosa 11735 La Pintana, Region Metropolitana Santiago Chile Manjit K. Misra Director, Seed Science Center 102 Seed Science Center Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 USA CV Mohan Coordinator, Aquatic Animal Health Program Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) Suraswadi Building, Department of Fisheries Kasetsart University Campus Ladyao, Jatujak Bangkok 10900 Thailand E.M. Muralidharan Scientist E1, Biotechnology Kerala Forest Research Institute Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala 680653 India Denis J. Murphy Head of Biotechnology Unit & Head of Research Division of Biological Sciences University of Glamorgan, CF37 1DL United Kingdom Marilia Nutti Researcher, Human Nutrition Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation- Embrapa Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock And Food Supply Av. Das Americas, 29501 Rio de Janeiro, 23020-470 Brazil Susan J. Owens Director, Trade and Science Capacity Building Division Office of Capacity Building and Development Foreign Agricultural Service 1400 Independence Ave SW Washington, DC 20250 USA Olusola Oyewole Coordinator, Mobilizing Regional Capacity Initiatives (MRCI), Association of African Universities P.O. Box AN 5744, Accra-North Ghana 3 Mohammad Pourkazemi Director International Sturgeon Research Institute P.O. Box 41635-3464 Rasht I.R. of Iran William Roca Coordinator LAC Biosafety Project CIAT, A.A. 67-13, Cali, Colombia Olivier Sanvido Agroscope Reckenholz Tänikon Research Station ART Reckenholzstrasse 191 CH-8046 Zürich Switzerland Idah Sithole-Niang Department of Biochemistry University of Zimbabwe PO MP 167, Mt. Pleasant Harare Zimbabwe Charles Spillane Genetics & Biotechnology, Department of Botany & Plant Science, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Adama Traoré Executive Secretary Comité National de la Recherche Agricole (CNRA) Ministère de l'Agriculture Bamako Mali Eduardo Trigo Director, Grupo CEO S.A. Scientific Adviser, International Relations Directorate at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Ayacucho 1739, Piso 11A, C1112AAE, Buenos Aires, Argentina Roberto Tuberosa Biotechnology Applied to Plant Breeding Department of Agroenvironmental Sciences and Technology Via Fanin, 44 40127-Bologna Italy Ruud Valyasevi National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Thailand Science Park, 113 Phahonyothin Rd., Klong 1, Klong Luang, Pathum Thani 12120 Thailand 4 Rajeev K. Varshney Principal Scientist (Applied Genomics) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Leader, Sub Programme 2: Genomics towards Gene Discovery Generation Challenge Programme Applied Genomics Laboratory, GT- Biotechnology, ICRISAT Patancheru- 502 324, Greater Hyderabad India Nuria Urquia Service Chief Patents and Technological Information Department Spanish Patent and Trademark Office Paseo Castellana 75 28071 Madrid Spain Claire Williams CEO, Silver Springs LLC Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA Abdelouahhab Zaid Chief Technical Adviser / Director Date Palm Research & Development Programme United Nations Office for Project Services - UNOPS UAE University, P.O.Box. 81908, Al Ain United Arab Emirates INDIVIDUALS INVITED FROM INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Biotechnology Industry Organization Sarah Lukie Managing Director, Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs Food and Agriculture, Biotechnology Industry Organization 1201 Maryland Avenue, SW Suite 900 Washington, D.C. 20024 USA CropLife International Denise Dewar Executive Director, Plant Biotechnology CropLife International 1156 15th Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20005 USA ETC Group Pat Mooney Executive Director ETC Group – Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration 431 Gilmour St, Second Floor Ottawa, ON K2P 0R5 Canada 5 ICTSD Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz Chief Executive International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development 7 chemin de Balexert 1219 Geneva Switzerland IFAP Ajay Vashee President International Federation of Agricultural Producers 60, rue Saint-Lazare 75009 Paris France ILSI Marci J. Levine Senior Scientist International Food Biotechnology Committee International Life Sciences Institute 1156 15th Street, NW, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20005 USA IUCN Jeffrey A. McNeely Chief Scientist IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) rue Mauverney, 28 1196 Gland Switzerland Oxfam International Gigi Manicad Programme Officer Global Strategies and Alliances Mauritskade 9 P.O. Box 30919 2500 GX The Hague, The Netherlands INDIVIDUALS INVITED FROM INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Alliance of the CGIAR Centers Anne-Marie Izac Chief Alliance Officer Alliance of the CGIAR Centres c/o FAO, Room C-602 Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy CGIAR Science Council Haruko Okusu Agricultural Research Officer Secretariat of the CGIAR Science Council 6 c/o FAO/NRDS Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy Codex Alimentarius Commission Tom Heilandt Officer in charge Codex Secretariat c/o FAO Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy GFAR Mark Holderness Executive Secretary, The Global Forum on Agricultural Research c/o FAO Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy IAEA Adama Diallo Head of Animal Production Unit FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Laboratories A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria ICGEB Decio Ripandelli Director, Administration and External Relations International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology c/o AREA Science Park Padriciano 99 I - 34012 Trieste Italy IFAD Shantanu Mathur Officer-in-Charge, Technical Advisory Division, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rome Italy. ITPGRFA Shakeel Bhatti Secretary International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture c/o FAO Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy OECD Peter Kearns 7 Principal Administrator ENV-EHS Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2 rue Andre-Pascal 75775 PARIS Cedex 16 France OIE Elisabeth Erlacher-Vindel Deputy Head, Scientific and Technical Department World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) 12, Rue de Prony 75017, Paris France UNCTAD Simonetta Zarrilli Legal Officer Division on International Trade and Commodities United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Geneva Switzerland UNEP Balakrishna Pisupati Division for Environmental Law and Conventions United Nations Environment Programme Nairobi Kenya UNESCO Julia Hasler Programme Specialist, Division of Basic and Engineering Sciences Natural Sciences Sector United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1 rue Miollis 75732 Paris cedex 15 France UNIDO George T. Tzotzos Biotechnology Programme United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Room D-1925 Wagramerstrasse 5, 1400 Vienna Austria UNU Sam Johnston Senior Research Fellow United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies 6F International Organizations Center Pacifico-Yokohama, 1-1-1 Minato Mirai Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-0012 Japan WHO Jørgen Schlundt Director 8 Department