Board Members

AFGHANISTAN
Dr. Najibeh Ataei

Director General, Agricultural Research Institute of Afghanistan (ARIA), Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, General Directorate ARIA, Kabul

ALGERIA
Dr. Ammar Azioune
Directeur, Centre de Recherche en Biotechnologie de Constantine (CRBT), Constantine

ANGOLA

Dr. Maria Madalena Chimpolo

Deputy Director, National Institute for the Evaluation, Accreditation and Recognition of Higher Education Studies (INAAREES), Kilamba

ARGENTINA
Dr. Karina Pombo
Directora Nacional de Promoción de la Política Científica/Asuntos Internacionales, Secretaría de Planeamiento y Politicas en CTI, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Buenos Aires

BANGLADESH
Dr. Md. Salimullah
Director General, National Institute of Biotechnology (NIB), Dhaka

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Prof. Dr. Kasim Bajrovic
Scientific Advisor, Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Sarajevo

BRAZIL
Prof. Marcelo Marcos Morales
Secretary of State for R&D Policies and Programmes (SEPED), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil, Brasilia D.F.

BULGARIA
Dr. Dimitar Djilianov
AgroBio Institute, Sofia

BURKINA FASO
Prof. Nicolas Barro
Director General, Agence Nationale de Biosécurité, Ministère de la Recherche Scientifique et de l’Innovation, Ouagadougou

BURUNDI
Min. Francois Havyarimana
Ministre de l’Education, de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, Bujumbura

CAMEROON
To be confirmed

CHILE
To be confirmed

CHINA
Prof. Zhang Xinmin
Director-General, China National Centre for Biotechnology Development (CNCBD), Beijing

COLOMBIA
Dr. Arturo Luis Luna Tapia
Gestor en Ciencia y Tecnologia, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCIENCIAS), Bogotá

COSTA RICA
Dr. José A. Bonilla
Centro de Investigación en Biología Celular y Molecular (CIBCM), Universidad de Costa Rica, San José

COTE D’IVOIRE
Dr. Koffi II Nazaire Kouassi
Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA), Abidjan

CROATIA
Prof. Kristian Vlahovicek
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb

CUBA
Dr. Jorge Valdés Hernández
Vice Director, Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia, Havana

ECUADOR
To be confirmed

EGYPT
Prof. Mahmoud M. Sakr
President, Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo

ERITREA
Prof. Tadesse Mehari
Executive Director, National Commission for Higher Education, Asmara

FYR MACEDONIA
Prof. Zivko Popov
Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje

HUNGARY
Dr. Gabor Toth
Head of unit, National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Budapest

INDIA
Prof. Alka Sharma
Adviser, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi

IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
Prof. Mostafa Motallebi
Director General, National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran

IRAQ
Dr. Sumaya Yousif Alfraji
Department of Animal Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Baghdad

ITALY
Min. Plen. Alessandro De Pedys
Director, Bilateral and Multilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Unit, Directorate General for the Promotion of the “Country System”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome

JORDAN
Dr. Bilal Azab
Assistant Professor, The University of Jordan, Faculty of Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Amman

KENYA
Prof. Walter O. Oyawa
Director-General / CEO, National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation, Nairobi

KUWAIT
Dr. Sabah Al Momin
Biotechnology Program, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Safat

KYRGYZSTAN
Dr. Zhainagul Isakova
Director, Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, National Centre for Cardiology, Bishkek

LIBERIA
H.E. Amb. Andrew W. Kronyanh
Ambassadro, Embassy of the Republic of Liberia, Rome

LIBYA
Dr. Nabil Sabri Enattah
General Director, Biotechnology Research Center (BTRC), Tripoli

MALAYSIA
Ms. Nordina Idris
UnderSecretary of Strategic Technology and Application S&T Division, Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC), Putrajaya

MAURITIUS
Mrs. Padmini Seebun
Senior Scientific Officer, National Plant Production Office, Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security, Port Louis

MEXICO
Dr. Alejandro Espinosa Calderon
Head of Dispatch, Inter-Secretarial Commission of Biosafety and Genetically Modified Organisms (CIBIOGEM), CONACYT, Mexico City

MONTENEGRO
Dr. Bojan Adzic
DVM, PI Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory of Montenegro, Podgorica

MOROCCO
Dr. Mustapha Labhilili
Research coordinator of Biotechnology Unit, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Rabat

NAMIBIA
Dr. Natascha Cheikhyoussef
Ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation, Windhoek

NIGERIA
Prof. Mustapha Abdullahi
Director-General / CEO, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Abuja

PAKISTAN
Dr. Shahid Mansoor
Director, National Insitute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad

PANAMA
Dr. Carmenza Spadafora
Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas y Servicios de Alta Tecnologia (INDICASAT), Panama

PERU
Dr. Cristina Guerra-Giraldez
Associate Professor, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima

QATAR
Mr. Masoud Jarallah Al-Marri
Director, Agricultural Research Department, Ministry of Municipality and Environment, Doha

ROMANIA
Dr. Manuela Elisabeta Sidoroff
Director General, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, Bucharest

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Mr. Victor M. Smirnov
President of the ICGEB Board of Governors
Deputy Director, International Department, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Moscow

SAUDI ARABIA
Dr. Bader Obaid Almutairi

Professor, Faculty of Sciences, King Saud University College of Science, Riyadh

SENEGAL
Prof. Salif Gaye
Directeur, Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT), Université de Thiès, Thiès

SERBIA
Dr. Jelena Begovic
Acting Director, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade

SLOVAKIA
Prof. Mangesh Bhide
Assoc. Prof. DVM, Institute of Neuroimmunology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

SLOVENIA
Prof. Radovan Komel
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana

SOUTH AFRICA
Dr. Nhlanhla Msomi
South African Governor to the ICGEB, Westville

SRI LANKA
Prof. Ranjith Senaratne
Chairperson, National Science Foundation, Colombo

SUDAN
Prof. Zeinab Osman
Director General, The National Centre for Research, Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, Khartoum

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
Prof. Ibrahim Othman
Director General, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria (AECS), Damascus

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Prof. Christine Carrington
Professor of Moelcular Genetics and Virology, Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

TUNISIA
Prof. Slim Tounsi
General Director, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax

TURKEY
Prof. Abdullah Karadag
Deputy Director, TÜBITAK Marmara Research Center, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute (GMBE), Gebze/Kocaeli

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
To be confirmed

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
Prof. Mohammed Sheikh
Acting Director of Life Sciences, General Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, COSTECH, Dar es Salaam

URUGUAY
Dr. Sonia Rodrguez

Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo

VENEZUELA (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF)
To be confirmed

VIET NAM
Dr. Vinh Nang Do
Co-Director of  International Joint Laboratory, Rice Functional Genomics and Plant Biotechnology, Institute of Agricultural Genetics, Hanoi