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Elizabeth Mitcham

Director
University of California, Davis

Elizabeth Mitcham is director of the Horticulture Innovation Lab and also a postharvest specialist based in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences.

Erin McGuire

Associate Director
University of California, Davis

Erin McGuire is the Associate Director of the Horticulture Innovation Lab. In this role, she supports and is a primary point of contact for all Horticulture Innovation Lab projects.

Michael Reid

Leader, Technology and Innovation
University of California, Davis

As the program's leader for innovation and technology, Michael Reid identifies and develops new technologies that address constraints to horticultural production for smallholder farmers.

Center directors

Poonpipope Kasemsap

Director, Horticulture Innovation Lab Regional Center at Kasetsart University
Kasetsart University

Poonpipope Kasemsap is the acting Vice President for Kamphaeng Saen Campus at Kasetsart University in Thailand.

portrait: Julio López, director of Horticulture Innovation Lab Regional Center at Zamorano

Julio López Montes

Director, Horticulture Innovation Lab Regional Center at Zamorano
Panamerican Agricultural School, Zamorano

Julio López is a plant protection specialist and leads classes in integrated pest management and entomology as a professor at the Panamerican Agricultural School, Zamorano, in Honduras.

International Advisory Board Member

Guillermo Alvarado-Downing

Chair, International Advisory Board

Guillermo Alvarado-Downing served as the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Honduras, and currently owns a fruit and vegetable farm.

Rose Koenig

International Advisory Board member
University of Florida

Rose Koenig is the interim director for the Global office for the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS Global).

Eric Kueneman

International Advisory Board member

Eric Kueneman is a global agriculture consultant with experience in more than 60 countries worldwide as the director of Kueneman Consultancy.

Josette Lewis

International Advisory Board member

Josette Lewis directs agricultural affairs for the Almond Board of California.

Detlef Virchow

International Advisory Board member

Detlef Virchow is head of programming at Plan International Germany in Hamburg.

R. Shanthi Wilson Wijeratnam

International Advisory Board member

Shanthi Wilson is a consultant and worked as a project manager for 35 years with the Industrial Technology Institute in Sri Lanka.

Ermias Kebreab

Associate Dean
University of California, Davis

Ermias Kebreab is an associate dean of global engagement for the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and director of the UC Davis World Food Center.

Marco Wopereis

International Advisory Board member
World Vegetable Center (World Veg)

Marco Wopereis is director general of the World Vegetable Center.

L. George Wilson

Professor
North Carolina State University

George Wilson has been a professor of horticultural science at North Carolina State University since 1975. His research, teaching and extension focuses on postharvest physiology and technology.

John Bowman

USAID Agreement Officer's Representative (AOR)

John Bowman is a senior agriculture advisor for the USAID Bureau for Food Security and as such serves as the AOR for the Horticulture Innovation Lab.

Cecilia Chi-Ham

International Advisory Board member

Cecilia Chi-Ham manages the global strategy process for the R&D portfolio at HM.CLAUSE, a vegetable seed company and business unit of Limagrain Group.

Robert Paull

Professor
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Robert Paull is a professor and researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

paull@hawaii.edu

Principal investigators

Jeffrey LeJeune

Professor
The Ohio State University

lejeune.3@osu.edu

Janelle Larson

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics
The Pennsylvania State University

Janelle Larson is an associate professor of agricultural economics at Penn State University.

jbl6@psu.edu

Bielinski Santos

University of Florida

Bielinski Santos was previously a principal investigator on a Horticulture Innovation Lab project, while employed by the University of Florida as an associate professor.