Alexander Müller is the Assistant Director-General of the Natural Resources Management and Environment Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. From 2001 to 2005, he was State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture. From 1995 to 2001, he was a member of German parliament and chaired the Caucus of the Green Party. He was also a member of the Committee of Environmental Affairs, the Finance Committee and the Committee for New Media. From 1992 to 1995, he was the State Secretary for the Hessian Ministry of Youth, Family and Health Affairs in Wiesbaden, Germany. Alexander holds a master of social sciences focusing on sociology and political sciences from the Philipps Universitat, Marburg, Germany.

Jerry L. Hatfield received a BS in Agronomy from Kansas State University in 1971, an MS in Agronomy from the University of Kentucky in 1972, and a PhD in Agricultural Climatology and Statistics from Iowa State University in 1975. He was appointed Laboratory Director of the National Soil Tilth Laboratory in 1989 and his responsibilities have included the management of the laboratory research programme and technical oversight of a programme to assess the impact of farming systems on environmental quality and the development of quality assurance/quality control data.

Jerry Hatfield serves on a number of task forces addressing air and water quality. He is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America and Past-President of the American Society of Agronomy. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. He is the author or co-author of 357 refereed publications and the editor of 11 monographs.

Dr. Pramod Kumar Aggarwal is ICAR National Professor at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and the Coordinator of the ICAR Network on Climate Change and Agriculture. He is also Secretary of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. He was the Coordinating Lead Author for agriculture for the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC. Dr Aggarwal is a member of the Editorial Board of ‘Agricultural Systems’ and ‘Outlook on Agriculture’. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. Dr Aggarwal was awarded Ph.D. in Life Sciences by the University of Indore in India and another Ph.D. in Agriculture and Environment by the Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His major research interests are in the areas of impacts and adaptation to global environmental change, greenhouse gases, modelling agricultural systems, and yield forecasting.

Dr. Riad Balaghi is Head Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources of Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA – Morocco). Prior to this he was Head Agronomy and Plant physiology Research Unit in Meknes, Regional Center of INRA-Morocco. Dr. Balaghi received his Ph.D. degree in environmental sciences from Liege University (Belgium) and his Diploma of Agronomy Engineer from IAV-Hassan II (Morocco). Dr. Balaghi is specialized in Crop forecasting and monitoring and climate change impacts on agriculture. Dr. Balaghi has been awarded the medal of merit from FAO during World Food Day, October 2008.

Jim Salinger is Honorary Research Fellow, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was a leading climate researcher at various universities and government research institutes, and is now president of WMO’s Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM). He led research into climate and climate change in New Zealand and the South Pacific for more than 30 years, including documenting climate change, seasonal climate prediction and examining the impacts of past, present and future climate on agriculture and climate-sensitive communities. He was lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports and Science Team Leader, International Climate Justice Programme. He has been involved in the WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology, including leadership positions, for the past decade. Jim has received numerous science communication awards. He was elected a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2001.

Ingeniero Agrónomo, Dr. en Agronomía área Física del Ambiente Agrícola. Investigador IV y Investigador IV del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrícolas de Venezuela (INIA), Coordinador Temático del Cambio Climático por Venezuela ante el PROCIANDINO. He sido Coordinador de diversos proyectos nacionales en Agrometeorología. Presidente de la Sociedad Venezolana de Agrometeorología período 2005-2007, Presidente del Comité Organizador del I Congreso Venezolano de Agrometeorología y V Reunión Latinoamericana de Agrometeorología, noviembre 2007, Prof. de Agrometeorología en el Post grado de Protección Vegetal de la Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira (UNET), Prof. De Climatología Agrícola en la Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (UPEL).

Jan Delbaere is Deputy Chief of the Food Security Analysis Service of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). He holds a MS in Agronomy (1982) and Agricultural Economics (1995) from the KU Leuven (Belgium). Prior to his position in Rome, Jan Delbaere fulfilled long term assignments related to food security in DR Congo, PR China, Yemen, Rwanda and the Philippines and conducted short missions in several other developing countries.