Olive is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Nutrition & Food Science at Cal Poly Pomona. With more than twenty years’ experience of research, teaching, and industrial services across the USA, Canada, and China, Olive has acquired a good overview of the field of Food Science & Engineering, and particularly strong expertise in a specialized area of novel food ingredient delivery technologies for applications in fortified and functional foods. This international, multidisciplinary background enables her to interact with professionals in a wide variety of related fields. Olive has also been selected to receive one of the IFT’s Prestigious Achievement Awards – W. K. Kellogg Award for International Food Security during 2014 IFT Annual Meeting.

Olive yao li\'s research areas include Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resources by recycling and repurposing agro-food by products and wastes for value-added food or feed applications, microencapsulation and nanotechnology. Specifically she intends to develop novel ingredient systems/technologies for effective delivery of micronutrients and nutraceuticals through fortified and/or functional foods.

Prof. Tahlim Sudaryanto, Ph.D is Senior Agricultural Economist at the Indonesian Center for Agriculture Socio Economic and Policy Studies (ICASEPS), Ministry of Agriculture, the Republic of Indonesia. He has recently completed his term as Assistant Minister for International Cooperation in the Ministry of Agriculture. Prior to his current position, he has held the following positions in the Ministry: Director, Indonesian Center for Agriculture Socio Economic and Policy Studies; Director, Bureau of Planning and Finance; Executive Secretary, Directorate General of Food Crop Production and; Executive Secretary, Agency for Agricultural Research and Development. During his career, he has also served as lecturer, advisory committee on thesis and dissertation research in both undergraduate and graduate program of several universities. As official of the Ministry of Agriculture, he has participated as delegation on WTO negotiation, various committees and council meetings at the OECD, G20, FAO, UN-ESCAP, APEC, ASEAN forums, and other bilateral meetings. Since January 2014 he has served as a member Board of Trustees, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. In 2015 he serves as Commissioner at the Second Murdoch Commission on Food Security, Trade and Partnership, Murdoch University, Australia. In 2013-2014 he also served as a member of International Advisory Committee, Food&Business Global Challenges Program, Netherland Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherland. During 2006-2010 he was as a member of the Technical Committee, United Nation-Center for the Alleviation of Poverty through Sustainable Agriculture (UN-CAPSA), Bogor, Indonesia.

Tahlim Sudaryanto’s research interest include food policy, agricultural trade, and rural economy

Sun Bo is currently a Professor,Director of Yingtan Red Soil Ecological Research Station (National Agro-ecosystem Observation and Research Station in Yingtan); and Deputy director of Key Laboratory of Farmland Conservation of Ministry of Agriculture since 2011;For the year 2004- 2008 he has also served as Director of Soil Sub-Center, Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN), CAS. There are 46 SCI papers, 7 EI papers, 150 journal papers in Chinese and 5 where he has given his contribution which includes Microbialmediation of biogeochemical cycles revealed by simulation of global changes with soil transplant and cropping ,Balance and Management of Nutrients in Agro-ecosystems in China etc.

Sun Bo’s Research Interests include: Soil degradation and ecological rehabilitation to improve the sustainability of grain production systems, Carbon and nitrogen cycling in agro-ecosystems and its optimized management along the climatic transects and key coordinative mechanisms in soil-root-microbe systems to improve nitrogen and phosphorus utilization.

Professor Munashe Shoko is the Former Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences at Great Zimbabwe University and is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty. He obtained his Ph.D. (Agronomy) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He started his university teaching career in the Faculty of Agriculture, Africa University Zimbabwe in 2003 and left for Great Zimbabwe University as Founding Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in 2011. Professor Shoko has more than 52 publications. Prof Shoko is an external examiner for 4 local and 3 external universities. He is a reviewer of 8 Scientific Journals. Prof Shoko sits on three Boards for private organisations in Zimbabwe.

Munashe Shoko’s research areas include: Soil Fertility Management, Crop rotations and climate change.

Fanuel Kapute is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries Science at Mzuzu University, Malawi where he is also the Head of Department. He is a reviewer to several international journals and has several publications in peer reviewed journals including a Handbook published by VDM Verlag, in Germany (ISBN 978-3-639-33844-7) which is used in the teaching of Fish Processing and Quality Management at undergraduate level. His recent published book is titled “Quality & Risk Assessment of Whole Fresh Lake Malawi Tilapia (Chambo) published by Lambert Academic Publishing. He has also carried out many consultancy assignments both local international including a three year competitive grant scheme funding from the government of Norway to implement an integrated fish farming project in southern Malawi in 2008.

Fanuel Kapute's current research fields include:fish processing and quality management

Manuela Zoninsein has been passionate about food and sustainability since working on the commodities exchange at the Chicago Board of Trade at age 18.She established AgVali, the first marketplace platform connecting suppliers of best-in-class agricultural inputs with the largest network of qualified agricultural distributors in emerging markets, initiated in Brazil, in order to enable farmers to discover suitable new products and to dictate the market for agriculture products. Prior to AgVali, Manuela launched Smart Agriculture Analytics,a data subscription service that tracked the market opportunity for world-leading agricultural solutions in China. She created SAA’s first product in while studying at Tsinghua University on a Blakemore Fellowship. Manuela was both an environment correspondent and a food writer, reporting for the Engineering News-Record and ClimateWire as well as serving as dining editor for Time Out Beijing. She first moved to Beijing with a Princeton-in-Asia Fellowship in 2007, reporting for Newsweek, where she built the magazine's first blog, the Engineering News-Record, where she was the inaugural China correspondent, and serving as Asia bureau chief for Dell computers to launch takeyourownpath.cn, a platform selling technology to SMEs, in Mandarin. Manuela has degrees from Harvard and Oxford, and studied Mandarin at Tsinghua and National Taiwan University on a Blakemore Fellowship and Huayu Scholarship.

Agriculture

Huada Daniel Ruan, Dual PhD, Professor and Founding Head of the Department of Environmental Science, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). Prof. Ruan earned his first PhD in Mineralogy from The University of Western Australia, and second PhD in Chemistry from Queensland University of Technology. He has a background in chemistry, earth sciences, environmental science, and biological science with more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research in Australia, the U.S., Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, and published more than 110 articles. Prof. Ruan is the pioneer researcher established non-point water pollution index in Australia, found and confirmed that 0.02 ppm of phosphorus is the critical value of water eutrophication. His research achievement also include mineral chemistry at Queensland University of Technology, Australia that contributed to a significant increase (2-5%) in the extraction of alumina from bauxite; the bio-chemical remediation of contaminated soils at Purdue University U.S.A. had contributed to the stabilization of heavy metals Cr and Pb biologically and chemically; participation in air pollution monitoring, indoor air quality, food safety and labeling, electronic waste treatment and certification in Hong Kong. He has been invited to be the Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Australia, Visiting Professor, South China Agricultural University, Visiting Research Professor, Research Institute of Ecology and Soil Science, Guangdong Academy of Science, Honorary Consultant, Hong Kong Institute of Environmentalist, Vice Chairman of the Environmental Subcommittee, Hong Kong Association of Testing, Inspection and Certification， Jury Member of Court, Queensland, Australia， Zhuhai City Committee Member of Emergency Management. He is a Certified Auditor of ISO9001 and ISO14001, editor/reviewer of a number of international journals and an active member of a number of international professional associations.

water pollution index,stabilization of heavy metals,pollution monitoring, indoor air quality, food safety and labeling, electronic waste treatment.

Devi Prasad Juvvadi is Director (Agriculture Management) at Centre for Good Governance (CGG), Hyderabad, India. Earlier he was Team Leader and M&E specialist to A.P. Community Based Tank Management project in minor irrigation of Andhra Pradesh funded by World Bank. He worked as Lead Consultant. SPIU (Agriculture) with CGG and involved in change and delivery projects, capacity building and change management programmes to various government departments under Delivery of Improved Services in Administration (DISA), a DFID supported programme. He served as Member, Board of Management, A.P. Horticultural University. In the decades of eighties, Mr. Prasad worked as Asst. Professor (Soil Science) with American University of Beirut and adjunct to teaching and research programmes in Saudi Arabia for about 10 years. He was Consultant to many agriculture projects in several countries in the Middle East and Europe. He returned to India in early nineties and associated with finance and industrial activity and moved to NGO sector as Consultant and conducted various studies in agricultural and rural development to UN, Netherlands and Swiss, funded projects. He has been a trainer, resource person and consultant to many organizations including EPTRI, EEI, SAMETI, APWELL, APIDC, SBI, MIDHANl, DANIDA, BHEL, DMRL, DRDL etc. He has authored and co-authored peer reviewed articles and published bulletins, contributed to news papers on agriculture and presented papers in various national and international conferences. His areas of interest include Agricultural Governance, Risk Management in Agriculture, ICT use in agriculture, Capacity building and Change management in agriculture. Mr. Prasad travelled widely in over 24 countries in Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia and Asia including Pakistan.

Horticulture, Soil Science