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Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
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8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Opening Ceremony
Amb. Kenneth Quinn, United States
President, The World Food Prize Foundation
Dr. Ellen Bergfeld, United States
Executive Vice President, American Society of Agronomy, Crop and Soil Science Societies
8:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session One: The Green Revolution Redux
Sir Gordon Conway, United Kingdom
Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Department for International Development
President (ret.), Rockefeller Foundation
(Moderator)
The Third Annual Governor's Lecture
sponsored by Humanities Iowa
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, India
Chair, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Co-Chair, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger
1987 World Food Prize Laureate
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Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Egypt
Director, Library of Alexandria
Former Chairman, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Roger Thurow/Scott Kilman , United States
Senior Writer, The Wall Street Journal
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Session Two: Agriculture and International Development
10:30 a.m. – 10:55 p.m
SECRETARY'S LECTURE
Hon. Mike Johanns, United States
Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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10:55 - 11:50
Hon. Peter McPherson, United States
President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Founding Co-Chair, The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
(Moderator)
H.E. Abdoulaye Diop, Mali
Ambassador of Mali to the United States
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12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Hunger Summit Announcement
Amb. Kenneth Quinn, United States
President, The World Food Prize Foundation
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12:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Symposium Luncheon
Hon. Josette Sheeran, United States
Under Secretary, Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State
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Session Three: Public and Private Sector Partnerships
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Rajiv Shah, United States
Director for Financial Services & Agriculture,
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Hon. Catherine Bertini, United States
Former Chair, United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition
Professor, Syracuse University
2003 World Food Prize Laureate
Dr. Zhangliang Chen, China
President, Chinese Agricultural University
Director, Chinese National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, United States/Mexico
Founder, The World Food Prize
1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
John Ruff, United States
Senior Vice President, Kraft Foods
(Moderator)
Robert Forney, United States
President, Global Food Banking Network
James Morris, United States/United Nations
Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
Hans Jöhr, Switzerland
Assistant Vice President and Corporate Head of Agriculture,
Nestle Ltd.
Question and Answer Session
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Dr. Mark McLellan, United States
Dean of Research, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Science
Former President, Institute of Food Technologists
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Friday, October 20, 2006
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7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast Address: Food and Security in the 21st Century
Dr. Robert Gates, United States
President, Texas A&M University
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
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9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Session Four: Looking to the Future
Dr. Chen Zhangliang, China
President, Chinese Agricultural University
Director, Chinese National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering
Dr. Calestous Juma, Kenya
Director, Harvard University Science, Technology and Globalization Project
Chair, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation
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Dr. Pedro Sanchez, Cuba/United States
Director, Tropical Agriculture, Earth Institute at Columbia University
Co-Chair, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger
2002 World Food Prize Laureate
Dr. Hans Herren, Switzerland
President, Millennium Institute, Washington, D.C.
Co-Chair, International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development
1995 World Food Prize Laureate
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Dr. Robert Watson, United Kingdom
Chief Scientist and Director, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (ESSD) at the World Bank
Co-Chair, International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development
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12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Laureate Luncheon
Dr. Silvio Crestana , Brazil
Director-General, EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)
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2:00 – 3:30
Session Five: Laureate Roundtable
The 2006 World Food Prize Laureates:
Edson Lobato
Dr. Colin McClung
H.E. Alysson Paolinelli
Dr. G. Edward Schuh, United States
Regents Professor, University of Minnesota
Orville and Jane Freeman Professor, International Trade and Investment Policy and Freeman Center for International Economic Policy
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