Governance
The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land and water systems in a climate crisis.
Office of the Director General
Juan Lucas Restrepo
Director General of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Trustee for Bioversity International UK/USA
Marcela Quintero
Associate Director General, Research Strategy, and Innovation
Mauricio Munoz
Head, Legal Office
Vanessa Riveros
Head, Organizational Development, and Head (interim), Human ResourcesAlliance Board of Trustees
Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Chair, Alliance Board of Trustees
Douglas van den Aardweg
Vice Chair, Alliance Board of Trustees and Trustee, Bioversity International UK
Patrick Caron
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Jorge Mario Diaz Luengas (ex-officio)
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Marion Guillou
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Jessica Fanzo
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Claudio Lenoci
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Ed Mabaya
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Claudia Martinez Zuleta
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Juan Lucas Restrepo (ex-officio)
Director General, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Soumya Swaminathan
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Daniel Petrescu
Member, Alliance Board of Trustees
Keith Kalyegira
Member, Alliance Board of TrusteesResearch
Marcela Quintero
Associate Director General, Research Strategy, and Innovation
Mark Lundy
Director, Food Environment and Consumer Behavior
Lulseged Tamene Desta
Director, Multifunctional Landscape
Julian Ramirez-Villegas
Director (a.i.), Climate Action, and Principal Scientist on Climate Impacts
Carlo Fadda
Director, Agrobiodiversity
Jacob van Etten
Director, Digital Inclusion
María Fernanda Álvarez
Director, Crops for Nutrition and Health, and Program Leader, Rice Breeding and Genetics
Marlène Elias
Director, Gender and Inclusion
Elisabetta Gotor
Principal Scientist, Performance, Innovation and Strategic Analysis
Annabelle Lhommeau
Head, Program DeliveryRegions
Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg
Managing Director, Africa, and Trustee, Bioversity International UK/USA
Maya Rajasekharan
Managing Director, Americas
Stephan Weise
Managing Director, Asia, and a.i. director, Partnerships & CommunicationsSupport
David Abreu
Global Director, Technology Integration
Victor Guardia
Global Director, Finance
Vanessa Riveros
Head, Organizational Development, and Head (interim), Human Resources