Senior Professor of Global Agribusiness at the Education and Research Institute (INSPER), Brazil, and coordinator of INSPER Agro Global. The positions he has held include President of the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association and of the Asia-Brazil Agro Alliance, and Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Business Development of BRF in the Asia-Pacific region. He worked as an integration and trade specialist at the IDB’s Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division, and as special advisor to Minister Celso Lafer at the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC). He has  also been a member of several boards of directors of companies in his home country and abroad.

Former Secretary for the Bioeconomy of Argentina. He was a professor for 48 years at the Agronomy Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires (FAUBA), where he also served as dean between 1998 and 2006. He also served as Director of the Agribusiness and Food Program, and held the professorship of the Agribusiness Chair and the position of Undersecretary of Agrarian Affairs of the Province of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2008, among other positions.

A researcher in the field of Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology, Olmedo is the first woman to direct the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Her studies have supported biotechnological developments in agriculture, such as biofertilizers.

A biochemist specializing in plant biotechnology, Chan is a tenured professor at Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina). She holds a doctoral degree from the National University of Rosario (UNR). An expert in Molecular Biology, she led the development of the HB4 gene, which comes from sunflowers and provides wheat and soybeans with greater tolerance to droughts.

He is a professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at the University of California at Berkeley. His areas of expertise include agricultural and environmental policy, the economics of innovation, biotechnology and climate change.

2020 World Food Prize winner, distinguished Professor of Soil Sciences and Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center of Ohio State University

A Brazilian national, Rodrigues is the Coordinator of the Agribusiness Center of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation and IICA Chair in Agribusiness at the “Luiz de Queiroz” School of Agriculture of the University of Sao Paulo (ESALQ-USP). He holds an honorary doctorate from São Paulo State University (UNESP). Among other high-level positions, he served as Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (2003-2006) of Brazil. He has created numerous intellectual products related to agriculture, cooperative undertakings and the rural economy.

Over the course of three decades, the Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology Research Institute (IFEVA) of the University of Buenos Aires’ Faculty of Agronomy has provided training to over 30,000 students, solidifying its standing as a key training center in the field of agricultural sciences at the regional level. IFEVA produces around 80 scientific articles per year, which have earned the faculty a great amount of prestige.