The Golden Rice Humanitarian Board
Expertise and Strategic Guidance
The Humanitarian Board is an honorary body that benefits from the expertise of international authorities, including
  • Prof Ingo Potrykus (co-inventor of Golden Rice), professor emeritus from ETH Zurich, Chairman (public relations and information);
  • Prof Peter Beyer (co-inventor) Univ of Freiburg (scientificic advancement in the areas of biofortification for provitamin A and other micronutrients);
  • Dr Gurdev Khush, retired rice breeder from IRRI (rice breeding);
  • Dr Gary Toenniessen, The Rockefeller Foundation (food security in developing countries);
  • Dr Adrian Dubock, Golden Rice Project Manager, Agricultural Consultancy for Development GmbH, Switzerland
    (private sector approaches to project management);
  • Dr Howarth Bouis, Director of HarvestPlus, international Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali-Colombia, and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington DC (biofortification);
  • Dr Robert Bertram, USAID Washington DC (development in Third World agriculture);
  • Prof Matin Qaim, Professor and Chair in "International Food Economics and Rural Development" at the University of Göttingen, Germany (socio-economic aspects);
  • Prof Robert Russell, Laboratory for Human Nutrition, Tufts University Boston (vitamin A malnutrition);
  • Dr Robert Zeigler, Director General, IRRI;
  • Dr Sunkeswari R Rao Dept of Biotechnology, India (national cooperation in rice research);
  • Prof Jean Pierre Jeannet, Babson College, Massachussets (global marketing);
  • Dr Gerard Barry, IRRI (ex-officio member and Golden Rice Network Coordinator)
Ready to harvest

Members of the Golden RiceHumanitarian Board at harvest time of the first field trial in Louisiana, September 2004.
This team will reach farmers
First joint meeting of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board and the Golden Rice Network, IRRI, The Philippines, Nov 2005.