Name Guido Gryseels | Role Economist | |
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Dr Guido Gryseels is a Belgian academic and agricultural economist who has been Director-General of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium since 2001. Until end of 2009, he was also the Chair of the Borad of Trustees of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), based in Aleppo, Syria. Gryseels, a Belgian national, joined as a member of ICARDA Board of Trustees in 2003 and, at the time, he took over as Board Chair in 2005 and replacing Margaret Catley-Carlson, he had been serving as a member of the Executive, Nomination and Program Committees of the Board.
As Director-General of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, he initiated a reorganization and renovation of the museum which focused on updating the museum's portrayal of Belgium's colonial era. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Belgian Federal Science Policy Office and of the Fund for Scientific Research as well as the Chair of the Jury that annually awards the Development Cooperation Prize. Earlier, he served as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Technical Advisory Committee of the CGIAR, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Italy. He also held other important positions in the CGIAR, including that of Executive Secretary of the CGIAR's Impact Assessment and Evaluation Group. From 1979 to 1987, he held various senior positions at the International Livestock Center for Africa, in Ethiopia.