Speakers, Chairs & Moderators

Our 2023 conference speakers and chairs are listed below with biographical details.  Their address abstracts will be added as they become available.

OPENING
The Hon John Anderson AC
Chair
Crawford Fund
SIR JOHN CRAWFORD MEMORIAL ADDRESS and SESSION 5
Dr Éliane Ubalijoro
CEO of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
VOTE OF THANKS
Dr Wendy Craik
Crawford Fund Board Member
MINISTERIAL OPENING MESSAGE
Senator The Hon Penny Wong
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Leader of the Government in the Senate
SESSION 1: Chair
Dr Beth Woods
Member of Australia’s Commission for International Agricultural Research
SESSION 1: KEYNOTE and SESSION 5
Dr Cary Fowler
U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security, Office of Global Food Security
SESSION 2: Chair
Nicola Hinder
Deputy Secretary of the Agricultural Trade Group, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
SESSION 2 and SESSION 5
Professor Wendy Umberger
Chief Executive Officer, ACIAR
SESSION 3: Chair
Dr Cate Rogers
Assistant Secretary, Climate Financing and Programming Branch, Climate Change and Sustainability Division at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
SESSION 3 and SESSION 5
Emeritus Professor Kym Anderson AC
Crawford Fund Medalist
SESSION 4: Chair
Dr Terence Farrell
Head of Economics, Grains Research and Development Corporation
SESSION 4: Part 1
Prof Jamie Pittock
Fenner School of Environment & Society, ANU
SESSION 4: Part 1
Prof Kadambot Siddique
The University of Western Australia
Hackett Professor of Agriculture, Chair and Director of UWA Institute of Agriculture
SESSION 4: Part 1
Dr Roya Khalil
Director of Research and Development, Incitec Pivot Fertilisers
SESSION 4: Part 2: Chair
Larelle McMillan
Research Director – Sustainability, CSIRO Agriculture & Food
SESSION 4: Part 2
Ben Fargher
Environmental Markets Lead, Cargill Asia Pacific
SESSION 4: Part 2
Dr Warren T K Lee
Senior Nutrition & Food Systems Officer
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
SESSION 4: Part 2
Dr Fathiya Mbarak Khamis
Senior Scientist, the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)
SUMMING UP AND THE WAY FORWARD
Dr Colin Chartres
CEO
Crawford Fund