Senior Leadership

The Global Leadership Team incorporates institutional integration and coordination to more aligned management across the CGIAR Centers.

Aly Abousabaa
Director General, ICARDA

Apollinaire Djikeng
Director General, ILRI

Simeon Ehui
Director General, IITA

Ismahane Elouafi
Executive Managing Director, CGIAR

Bram Govaerts
Director General, CIMMYT

Guillaume Grosso
Deputy Executive Managing Director, CGIAR

Simon Heck
Director General, CIP

Yvonne Pinto
Director General, IRRI

Baboucarr Manneh
Director General, AfricaRice

Essam Yassin Mohammed
Director General, WorldFish

Juan Lucas Restrepo
Director General, The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Mark Smith
Director General, IWMI

Johan Swinnen
Director General, IFPRI

Himanshu Pathak
Director General, ICRISAT

Sandra Christina Kothe Milach
Chief Scientist, CGIAR