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Talk on Transformational Leadership Experience within a Social Enterprise
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Join us for a transformational leadership presentation followed by Q/A by Dr. William Dollente Dar, Director General of International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
ICRISAT (www.icrisat.org) headquartered in India and with regional hubs in Kenya and Mali is a non-profit, pro-poor organization and a member of the CGIAR Consortium. CGIAR is a global agricultural research partnership for a food secure future (www.cgiar.org).
ICRISAT's vision is a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dry land tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dry land tropics.
"Bill Gates commends ICRISAT's work on reducing hunger and poverty" WSJ, June 5, 2013
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Gleacher Center, Room 308
60611, United States
Speakers
Dr. William Dollente Dar
Director General
ICRISAT
William Dollente Dar, PhD, is the Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) based in India. ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political and pro-poor institute and a member of the CGIAR Consortium.
Dr Dar served as Presidential Adviser for Rural Development, Secretary of Agriculture in the Philippines, Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) and Director of the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA).
He holds a PhD in Horticulture from the University of the Philippines Los Ba├▒os, an MS (Agronomy) and BS in Agricultural Education from Benguet State University (BSU) in La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines, and several honorary doctorates.
He has received a number of awards and honors, including the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of the Philippines, Outstanding Young Scientist of the Year, Crop Science Society of the PhilippinesÔÇÖ Achievement Award for Research Management, Outstanding Science Administrator given by the Philippines Department of Science and Technology, the 2007 Outstanding Professional of the Year Award in the field of Agriculture by the Professional Regulatory Commission of the Philippines.
The latest international recognition of his work includes the Federation of Asian Biotech Associations (FABA) Special Award for Biotechnology and Life Sciences sector 2014, the ÔÇ£Excellence in Agricultural Leadership AwardÔÇØ by the Association of Agricultural Technology in Southeast Asia (AATSEA) in November 2013, and the prestigious MS Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture in June 2013. In April 2010, ICRISAT led by Dr Dar won the CGIARÔÇÖs Science Award for Outstanding Partnership together with the World Vegetable Center (AVRDC), for improving the lives of women and children in West Africa. In 2008, it had won for the fifth time the King Baudouin Award (the most prestigious in the CGIAR) along with eight other Centers.