Ambassadors of AgMIP who set Strategic Direction & Partnerships and deliver AgMIP mission
Current
Senthold Asseng
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Dr. Senthold Asseng is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich. He was formerly a Professor in the Agricultural & Biological Engineering Department at University of Florida. He has contributed to AgMIP in many capacities. Most notably, as a Co-Leader of the AgMIP-Wheat team, Dr. Asseng has been at the forefront of both US-based and internationally-organized research projects and his work has helped set the standard for AgMIP crop model intercomparisons. Additionally, Dr. Asseng has developed and linked AgMIP networks both regionally and globally, and his commitment to expanding the AgMIP network for the betterment of research is extremely valuable.
Mario Herrero
Cornell University, USA
Dr. Mario Herrero is a professor of sustainable food systems and global change in the Department of Global Development, a Cornell Atkinson Scholar, and a Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences. His research focuses on increasing the sustainability of food systems for the benefit of humans and ecosystems. Mario is a regular contributor to important global initiatives at the heart of the sustainability of global food systems, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN Food Systems Summit, the Lancet Commission on Obesity and the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research (PIK) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), Germany
Dr. Hermann Lotze-Campen is Co-Chair of the Research Department Climate Resilience at PIK and Professor of Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change at HU Berlin. He is Co-Leader of the AgMIP Global Economics Team and is committed to linking global analysis with Regional Integrated Assessments. Moreover, he is also committed to connecting AgMIP work beyond AgMIP communities. He is a member of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP), coordinated at PIK, and is eager to strengthen connections between initiatives.
Cynthia Rosenzweig
NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and Columbia University, USA
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is Senior Research Scientist at NASA GISS, Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Climate School and a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College. She heads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA GISS whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being. In 2019, Dr. Rosenzweig was Coordinating Lead Author of the Food Security Chapter for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land. She was named as the 2022 World Food Prize Laureate.
Laure Tall
Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale, Senegal
Dr. Laure Tall is an agroecologist and the Research Director of IPAR (Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale), a West African think tank based in Senegal. Before that, Dr. Tall was a researcher at the Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA), where she held the positions of Director of the National Research Laboratory on Plant Production (LNRPV) and Co-Director of the International Joint Laboratory on Ecological Intensification on Cultivated Soils in West Africa (LMI IESOL). She has been the focal point for the Global Research Alliance on Paddy Rice for Senegal. Her goal is to contribute to evidence-based decision making for development in Africa.
Roberto Valdivia
Oregon State University, USA
Dr. Roberto O. Valdivia is an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher in Applied Economics at Oregon State University, where he co-leads the Tradeoff Analysis (TOA) project. He also co-leads the Regional Economics, Foresight and Regional Integrated Assessment Teams of AgMIP. His research focuses on integrated impact assessment, economic modeling, and trade-off analysis to evaluate agricultural systems, including the impacts of climate change, policy and technological interventions on productivity, livelihoods, and environmental outcomes. Dr. Valdivia has led and collaborated on projects across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States, and has trained economists and researchers worldwide in impact assessment methods to inform policies and investments for sustainable, climate-resilient agri-food systems.
Anthony Whitbread
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Tanzania
Dr. Anthony Whitbread is a Principal Scientist and lead for ILRI’s Sustainable Intensification agenda, and a Professor and former Chair of the Crop Production Systems in the Tropics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He has been a key partner with AgMIP in its Regional Research Team work to develop and utilize Regional Integrated Assessments and has made strong contributions to agricultural modeling by promoting a diverse range of modeling frameworks (including livestock), tools, and scales to meet the stakeholders’ needs. His work throughout the CGIAR centers has connected modelers, researchers, and stakeholders across the globe.
2023-2025
Geethalakshmi Vellingiri
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India
2018-2023
John Antle (retired, 2023)
Oregon State University, USA
Jerry Hatfield (retired, 2020)
US Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, USA
Principal Investigators (prior to 2018)
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, USA
James W. Jones, University of Florida, USA
Jerry Hatfield, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, USA
John Antle, Oregon State University