Derek Byerlee was formerly a professor at Georgetown University, following a career in academia, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, and the World Bank. His current interests are in the history of agricultural science in the twentieth century.
Helen Anne Curry is the Melvin Kranzberg Professor in the history of technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She currently leads the Wellcome Trust–funded project “From Collection to Cultivation: Historical Perspectives on Crop Diversity and Food Security” at the University of Cambridge.
Greg Edmeades is an independent scholar and native of New Zealand. He was formerly a physiologist/agronomist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, based in Mexico and Ghana, and a physiologist/breeder at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, based in Hawaii.
Marianna Fenzi is a research fellow at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Her research focuses on environmental history, especially in relation to the Green Revolution and crop diversity conservation.
Courtney Fullilove is Associate Professor in the Department of History, the College of the Environment, and the College of Science and Technology Studies at Wesleyan University. She is author of The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (2017).
David J. Jefferson is a senior lecturer (above the bar) at the University of Canterbury Faculty of Law. His research and teaching cover a range of issues related to biodiversity conservation, biotechnology regulation, intellectual property in the agricultural and food sectors, ecosystem rights laws, and the protection of Indigenous knowledge systems.
Prakash Kumar is Associate Professor of South Asian History and History of Science at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and is currently writing a book on the history of India’s Green Revolution.
Gabriela Soto Laveaga is Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. She is the author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill (2009). She is currently writing a book on histories of the Green Revolution in Mexico and India.
Sabina Leonelli is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science and director of the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis) at the University of Exeter, where she leads the European Research Council–funded project “A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments” and the “Data Ethics, Governance and Openness” strand of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Timothy W. Lorek is Assistant Professor of History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, where he is also director of the Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and Justice, and director of the program in Global Sustainability and Justice. He is the author of Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia (2023).
Harro Maat is Associate Professor at the Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation group of Wageningen University. In a recent project he looks at historical linkages between rice-farming practices of Maroon groups in Suriname and rice economies in Africa and Asia.
Lucas M. Mueller is a senior research associate at the University of Geneva. He is currently writing a book on the global history of food contaminants since 1960.
Wilson Picado-Umaña is Professor at the Escuela de Historia, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica. His research focuses on the history of the Green Revolution in Latin America.
James Smith is Professor of African and Development Studies and vice principal at the University of Edinburgh. He has researched the interrelationships among science, innovation, and Africa for the last twenty years, and has worked with the International Livestock Research Institute on aspects of their governance during that period.
Rebekah Thompson is a senior policy manager at the Department of Health and Social Care, United Kingdom. She completed her Ph.D. in African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and was affiliated as a graduate fellow to the International Livestock Research Institute during her doctoral studies.
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