Prof Sayed Azam-Ali

Crops for the Future Research Centre (CFFRC) has announced the appointment of Professor Sayed Azam-Ali as its first Chief Executive Officer. We have previously reported on the launch of CFFRC.

Professor Sayed Azam-Ali assumed his new post  on 1st August, 2011, after CFFRC was launched by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia in June this year. He will manage and drive the research strategy and direction of the centre through an independent CFFRC Board and under the overall direction of the global Crops for the Future (CFF) organisation, which is jointly hosted in Malaysia by Bioversity International and UNMC. Dr Michael Hermann was appointed as the Global Co-ordinator of CFF in 2010.

Professor Azam-Ali was previously the Vice Provost of Research and Internationalisation at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.  Prior to his appointment at UNMC, Professor Azam-Ali was Director of the University Tropical Crops Research Unit and Professor of Tropical Agronomy at The University of Nottingham’s Sutton Bonington Campus in the UK.

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For more information on CFFRC please consult here.