World Agricultural Forum

The World Agriculture Forum "was formed in 1997, as a 501(c)(3) status charitable organization with the goal of becoming a globally neutral venue providing all countries and sectors an equal voice for the discussion of agriculture policies and strategies." 

Directors
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 * Leonard J. Guarraia, Ph.D. - Chairman & CEO - World Agricultural Forum
 * David Friedman - Chief Financial Officer - WAF, Controller, Novus International, Inc.
 * Bruce B. Adaire - Chairman Emeritus, World Trade Center, St. Louis
 * Joaquin Alarcon - Vice President, Business Development, Abengoa Bioenergia Corporation
 * Mel Anderson - Retired - President Busch Agriculture Resources, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
 * John W. Bachman - Managing Principal, Edward Jones
 * Richard C. D. Fleming - President and CEO, St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association
 * Earle H. Harbison, Jr. - Chairman, Harbison Corporation
 * Lynn O. Henderson - President & CEO, Henderson Communications, LLC
 * David Kabbes - Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel, Bunge North America, Inc.
 * Seung H. Kim, Ph.D. - Vice Chairman, Asia - WAF, Director, Boeing Institute of International Business, Saint Louis University
 * Ganesh Kishore, Ph.D. - Vice President, Science and Technology, Chief Biotechnology Officer,, Dupont Protein Technologies
 * Donald W. Kloth, Ph.D. - Retired - Vice President & Group Executive, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
 * Jerome F. Lamm - Retired - Executive Director, Corporate Transportation, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
 * Steve Malin - President Busch Agriculture Resources, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
 * Richard A. McWard - Retired - Vice President, Corporate Industry Affairs, Bunge North America, Inc.
 * Ken Morrison - Managing Director, Doane Advisory Services
 * David Orthwein - Fieldwood Farm
 * Peter H. Raven, Ph.D. - Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
 * Lawrence J. Shine - Retired - Executive Director, Procurement Process, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
 * Thad W. Simons, Jr. - President & CEO, Novus International, Inc.

Advisory Board
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 * Rt. Hon. James B. Bolger - Chairman, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Former New Zealand Ambassador to the United States
 * Mohamed AIT-KADI - President, General Council of Agricultural Development (Morocco)
 * Suresh Babu - Senior Research Fellow and Senior Advisor-Training, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
 * Lennart Bage - President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
 * Ken Baker - Managing Director - Europe/Asia Pacific, World Agricultural Forum (Brussels)
 * Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D. - President, Donald Danforth Planet Science Center
 * Brett D. Begemann - Executive Vice President, Monsanto Company
 * Richard E. Bell - Retired- President & CEO, Riceland Foods, Inc.
 * Gary Blumenthal - President & COO, World Perspectives, Inc.
 * Honorable Christopher S. Bond - U.S. Senator
 * Honorable Chelston W.D. Braithwaite - Director General, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) (Costa Rica)
 * Carole L. Brookins - Former U.S. Executive Director, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
 * Jorge H. Cazenave - Cazenave & Associates (Argentina)
 * Ray Cesca - President & CEO, Global Alliance for Economic Advancement
 * Paolo De Castro - Presidente, Elabora (Italy)
 * Osler Desouzart - President & CEO, OD Consulting (Brazil)
 * Noel Devisch - President of the Belgian Boerenbond, President of COPA (Belgium)
 * A. Charles Fischer - Retired - CEO, Dow AgroSciences, LLC
 * Richard M. Foster - Vice President for Programs, Food Sys., Rural Dev. & Leadership, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
 * Honorable C. Boyden Gray - U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
 * Stuart I. Greenbaum, Ph.D. - Dean Emeritus, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
 * Leonard J. Guarraia, Ph.D. - Chairman & CEO, World Agricultural Forum
 * Thomas S. Haggai - Chairman & CEO, IGA, Inc.
 * Peter H. H. Hung - Chairman, Pearl River Distributing, Ltd. (Hong Kong)
 * Hans Johr - Assistant Vice President, Nestle Limited (Switzerland)
 * Sharad Joshi - Member of Indian Parliament
 * Datuk Khor, Chin Poey - Retired - Executive Chairman, PPB Oil Palms Berhad (Malaysia)
 * David Kipnis - Distinguished University Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
 * Israel Klabin - President, Brazilian Founation for Sustainable Development
 * Dorodjatun Kuntjaro-Kakti - Former Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs (Indonesia)
 * James L. McDonald, Ph.D. - Vice President, Policy & Programs, Bread for the World
 * M. Peter McPherson - President Emeritus, Michigan State University, Founding Co-Chair, Partnership to cut Hunger & Poverty in Africa
 * Horacio E. Navarrete - Managing-Director, Latin America, World Agricultural Forum
 * Thomas L. Payne - Vice Chancellor and Dean, Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, Director, Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station- Univ. of MO.
 * John M. Powell - Deputy Executive Director, UN World Food Programme (Italy)
 * Bonnie E. Raquet - Corporate Vice President, Public Affairs, Cargill, Inc.
 * Charles H. Riemenschneider - Director, Investment Centre, Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome)
 * Pedro Sanchez - Director of Tropical Agriculture, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
 * Bob Stallman - President, American Farm Bureau Association
 * Heinrich A. Toepfer - Director, Agriworld GmbH (Germany)
 * Blanche M. Touhill - Chancellor Emeritus, University of Missouri - St. Louis
 * Bernard Valluis - Directeur, Groupe Soufflet (France)

NGO Advisory Council Members
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 * Judith Symonds - Council Chair
 * Aminul Alam - Deputy Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advance Commission (BRAC)
 * Jonathan Campaigne - Executive Director, Pride Africa (Kenya)
 * Jason Clay - Acting Vice President, WWF, U.S., Director, WWF Global Agriculture Network
 * Juan Luis Diaz - Executive Director, Fundapaz (Argentina)
 * John Hatch - President, FINCA International,
 * Jim Hershey - Director, World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH)
 * Oran Hesterman - Program Director, Food Systems and Rural Development, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
 * Julie Howard - Executive Director, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
 * Rehana Khilji - Program Advisor, Concern Worldwide (Pakistan)
 * James McDonald - Vice President, Policy and Programs, Bread for the World
 * Timothy Nzioka - Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Gatsby Trust
 * Ray Offenheiser - President, OxFam America
 * Ralph Paige - Executive Director, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Land Assistance Fund
 * Susana Pinilla Cisneros - Executive President, Asociacion Nacional de Institutos de Desarrollo Del Sector Informal (Peru)
 * Narcedelia Ramirez Pineda - Vice President, Fundacion Ayu - Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Mixteca A.C. (Mexico)
 * Mark Ritchie - President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
 * James Shikwati - Director, Inter Region Economic Network (IREN)
 * Frank Tugwell - President & CEO, Winrock International
 * Amina Hassane Wangari - President, West African Business Women's Network (Niger)
 * Tensie Whelan - Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance

Contact details
One Metropolitan Square Plaza Suite 1300 Saint Louis, Missouri 63102 USA Phone: (314) 206-3208 Fax: (314) 206-3222 Email: wafstl AT stlrcga.org Web: http://www.worldagforum.org