Lloyd Le Page – Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Mr. Lloyd Le Page is CEO of the CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centres, formed in 2010 as a key component of the CGIAR reform process, and based in Montpellier, France. The Consortium represents 15 member centers operating in over 200 locations worldwide and works to reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international agricultural research, partnership and leadership.
Prior to his current role Lloyd led the Sustainable Agriculture and Development program at Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business. The program was focused on creating novel partnerships and innovative business approaches to reach previously under-served markets and to provide a foundation for sustainable business and community growth. In this role Lloyd interacted at all levels with private, public, non-profit and academic sectors both in the US and in developing countries. Previously Lloyd worked for Pioneer as regional supply chain manager for Africa, and previously as production manager for South Africa and Zimbabwe. In these roles Lloyd managed large capital expansion projects as well as addressing supply chain and product deployment challenges of reaching small and large farmers in Africa. He was also involved with trade and regulatory issues of seed movement and was responsible for implementing quality management systems such as ISO9001:2000 in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Egypt. Lloyd participated in various committees of Africa-Bio, SANSOR and the Seed Trade. Prior to joining Pioneer, Lloyd worked for several farming operations and agri-businesses in Zimbabwe.
Lloyd has served on many not-for-profit Boards, and including the African Seed Trade Association, Global Child Nutrition Foundation, the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development.
Anne-Marie Izac – Chief Science Officer (CSO)
Former Chief Officer of the Alliance, a collective action mechanism created by the 15 International Agricultural Research Centres (2006-2010), Anne-Marie Izac served as Chief Executive Officer for the interim Consortium Office (January-October 2010).
Anne-Marie Izac, a natural resources economist and an ecologist, is a specialist in sustainable agriculture in developing countries. Her PhD is in environmental and natural resource economics (University of Western Australia) and she earned a M.Sc. in ecology and an MA in agricultural economics (Washington State University). Her B. Sc. is in applied mathematics (France). She has held tenured academic positions in the USA and Australia, lecturing and conducting research in economics and natural resources management and policy, with a strong focus on agriculture.
She started working for the CGIAR system as the Leader of research programmes at IITA and ICRAF and was then appointed Director of Research by ICRAF. She has been the Deputy Director General for Science at CIRAD, a research institution with the same mandate as the CGIAR’s and a budget equivalent to 7 of the CGIAR centres. She was responsible for the design and implementation of a scientific reform, which included the creation of large research programmes cutting across departmental boundaries and disciplines and a new monitoring and evaluation system for these programmes.
Anne-Marie was a lead author in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Nutrient chapter) and a coordinating lead author in the International Assessment of the Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (global chapter on Policy). She has been an advisor on sustainable agriculture to the Royal Academy of Sciences in the Netherlands.
She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sustainable agriculture, and on the scientific board of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform of the agribusiness sector. She is also the Vice-Chair of the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems Programme. Her publications focus on the interface between economics and ecology in agriculture. This includes the management of natural resources for increased resilience and the analysis of trade offs between productivity and sustainability in agricultural systems.
Gordon MacNeil – Director of Finance and Corporate Services (DFCS)
Gordon MacNeil is a Canadian citizen and an international civil servant with over 35 years experience in the international development sector. After several years in the West Indies in the early 1970′s, Gordon worked with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), based in Ottawa, and also for four years in IDRC’s West Africa Regional Office (Senegal).
In 1988, he joined the CGIAR as the first Director of Finance and Administration of WARDA (now AfricaRice) in Cote d’Ivoire, and in late 1992, he moved to the World Bank as Senior Finance Officer in the CGIAR Secretariat. He joined IRRI (Philippines) in 1998, as Treasurer and Director for Finance. In 2003, he moved to ISNAR in The Hague, with the assignment of helping to coordinate its legal closure and the program merger/integration with IFPRI. He has since consulted extensively with CGIAR Center. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of CIAT from 2008-2010 (Chair in 2008-2009), and is presently on the Board of Directors of CATIE in Costa Rica. He has BSc and MBA degrees from Canadian universities.