Vice-President, The World Bank
Chairman, Consultative Group on International Research (CGIAR)

Ian Johnson, a British national, was appointed as the World Bank’s Vice President for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network in 1998 and Chairman of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in 2000. Dr. Johnson studied Economics at the Universities of Wales, Sussex, and Harvard. Prior to joining the Bank, he spent five years in Bangladesh working with a non-governmental organization as a Program Officer for UNICEF. He will discuss the challenges facing agriculture and poor farmers at risk in developing countries in the coming decades and how CGIAR is planning to renew its commitment to addressing global food security needs, especially those related to a warming world.