Keynote Speaker

Dr. Low is the Regional Leader for Africa of the International Potato Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Low attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, afterwards joining the Peace Corps and working for four years in Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in fisheries and aquaculture. She then entered Cornell University and was inspired by the chairperson of her doctoral committee to “undertake research that will make a difference in the world.” She certainly has done so: after receiving her Ph.D.

Per Pinstrup-Andersen, currently Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, was most recently the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University and Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen University. He is past Chairman of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and Past President of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). He has a B.S. from the Danish Agricultural University, a M.S. and Ph.D.