PROFILE / EXPERIENCEHARVESTPLUS2022 Senior Advisor, advising and guiding HarvestPlus and new partnership models in business development and commercialization.2005-2022 Global Director R&D | Commercialization | Asia. Leading the 2004 HarvestPlus start-up through proof-of-concept (2004-2008), product development (2009-2013) and commercialization (2014- ) phases while operations expanded globally: • Leading the development and organization of an interdisciplinary, global alliance of more than 600 scientific and implementation partners in more than 60 countries; actively engaged in activities spanning the entire value chain. • With focus on innovation, partnership- and team building, leading the R&D of micronutrient-dense, high-yielding profitable varieties of key staple foods and consumer products at global scale. By 2022 >400 biofortified varieties of 12 crop species were released in >30 countries. • Establishing country teams and creating strategies to deliver seed and produce/processed food products under social, commercial and mixed marketing situations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In reducing micronutrient malnutrition among poor at-risk populations, by the end of 2022: >17 million farmers growing, >86 million people on-farm and 10th of millions off-farm benefiting from Biofortification through HarvestPlus facilitated efforts https://www.harvestplus.org/. CIMMYT International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center1983 – 2005 Leader/Head of spring bread wheat, durum wheat, and triticale crop improvement programs with CGIAR global germplasm improvement mandate, and leading large-scale multidisciplinary programs. 20+ years’ experience and impact track-record driven by product-oriented, applied and strategic research in holistic and multi-disciplinary approaches. By 2022 principal-/co-authorship of more than 200 research publications.