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address at the Iowa State Leadership
Experience Conference, where he spoke
to students about his career path from a
degree in plant science to the president
of ISU.
Margaret
Catley-Carlson
Agnes
Kalibata
Margaret Catley-Carlson, IFDC board
member since 2006 and patron of the
Global Water Partnership, chose the
laureate for both the Stockholm Water
Prize in Stockholm and the Tyler Prize
in Washington, D.C. She was also the
keynote speaker at the “exSTREAMS:
The Okanagan water story and
you” forum held in Kelowna, British
Columbia, in March.
Agnes Kalibata, IFDC board member
since 2008 and current president of
the Alliance for a Green Revolution in
Africa (AGRA), recently led AGRA in
a partnership with the African Green
Revolution Forum to create the Africa
Food Prize – a $100,000 prize for
efforts in agriculture. Kalibata also led
AGRA in a partnership with the
World Bank Agriculture Global
Practice to strengthen farming in
sub-Saharan Africa. She also published
an article in Foreign Affairs magazine
concerning smallholder farmers’
economic prosperity.
Rhoda Peace
Tumusiime
Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, African
Union (AU) Commissioner for Rural
Economy and Agriculture, was
awarded the Presidential Award
for Outstanding Women in Uganda
during International Women’s Day
celebrations. Tumusiime was also a
keynote speaker at a joint high-level
roundtable discussion attended by
various African policymakers and
organized by the Global Panel on
Agriculture and Food Systems for
Nutrition and the AU Commission’s
Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in
Africa (PACA).
Douglas
Horswill
Douglas Horswill, an IFDC board
member since 2015, chaired an
independent task force commissioned
by the Mining Association of Canada
(MAC) to find ways to strengthen the
tailings management requirements
and guidance under MAC’s Towards
Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative.
Steven
Leath
Steven Leath, president of Iowa State
University (ISU) and IFDC board
member since 2012, gave the keynote
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