Advisory Committee
Experts ensure the quality of our project work
The Committee advises Welthungerhilfe's Executive Management on matters concerning program policy and the funding merits of programs and projects. The consultants can also carry out a review at short notice. This independent expertise from the world of science and practice helps to ensure the quality of our projects.
Members of the Advisory Committee:
- Dr. Getachew Abate Kassa, Agricultural Production and Resource Economics, Technical University of Munich
- Dr. Kwesi Atta-Krah, Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee; Retired Director, Country and Regional Engagement, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); also retired Senior Program Engagement Specialist, Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT); Dr. Atta-Krah continues his engagement with CGIAR, IITA and TAAT through special consultancy arrangements.
- Dr. Heike Baumüller, Crop Trust, Bonn, Germany
- Anna Brazier, Muthengo Development Solutions, Zimbabwe
- Dr. Julius Ecuru, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Policy & Enabling Environment ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya
- Prof. Dr. Bettina Engels, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
- Dr. Colleta Gandidzanwa, Department of Agriculture Economics, Extension & Rural Development, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Kohlmeyer, retired agricultural economist, previously TU Dortmund/Spatial Planning, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), African Development Bank
- Harold Lockwood, Director and founder of Aguaconsult, Colchester, United Kingdom
- PD Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev, Senior Agricultural Economist, Unique land use GmbH, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- Dr. Charles Yaw Okyere, Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra
- Dr. Bimala Rai Paudyal, Development Studies at Agriculture & Forestry University, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal
- Dr. Susanne Pecher, self-employed Management Consultant (international cooperation and organizational development)
- Dr. Katrin Radtke, Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee; Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr University Bochum
- Dr. Marlene Roefs, Planning Monitoring Evaluation Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
- Sepideh Saltoninia, Head of the Director's Office & Partnerships Manager, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden, and former humanitarian aid worker
- Kara Siahaan, World Meteorological Organization & Southern Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility SEADRIF
- Prof. Dr. Lisa Schipper, Institute of Geosciences, Development Geography, University Bonn, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlüter, Environmental and Resource Economics, Faculty for Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems, Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT, University of Applied Sciences Cologne)
- Dr. Paul-Theodor Schütz, former Senior Adviser on Agriculture, GIZ
- Dr. Leigh Ann Winowiecki, CIFOR-ICRAF Soil & Land Health Global Research, Nairobi, Kenya
- Dr. Mainassara Zaman-Allah, Senior Scientist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Zimbabwe
