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Icrisat to get a new DG
Icrisat To Get A New DG. David Bergvinson, who is currently with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, USA, as senior program officer, crop value chains and digital design for agriculture development, would be replacing William Dar who has been the DG on Icrisat (International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics) since 1999.
Outgoing William Dar was synonymous with Icrisat for almost 15 years
David Bergvinson, who is currently with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, USA, as senior program officer, crop value chains and digital design for agriculture development, would be replacing William Dar who has been the DG on Icrisat (International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics) since 1999.
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David Bergvinson has been appointed as the next Director General for a five-year term, effective from January 1, 2015. He currently represents the foundation on the CGIAR Fund Council.
“Science should not be an end in itself. Science is a means to mitigate poverty, eradicate malnutrition and provide environmentally sustainable solutions to the most pressing challenges faced by the smallholder farmer. Icrisat can achieve the impossible by forging strong partnerships with the public, private and civil society sectors. I look forward to working closely with all the staff and partners to realise Icrisat’s vision of prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics,” Bergvinson stated in a press release here on Friday.
Icrisat is a non-profit organisation that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Headquartered in Patancheru, near Hyderabad, it has two regional hubs and six country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a member of the CGIAR Consortium (formerly known as Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research).
