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FEED THE FUTURE INNOVATION LAB FOR LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS

FEED THE FUTURE INNOVATION LAB FOR LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS

Our Team

 

Management Team
   

Gbola Adesogan

Director

Professor of Ruminant Nutrition

Director, Food Systems Institute

+1 352-392-7527

adesogan@ufl.edu
 

Saskia Hendrickx

Deputy Director

+1 352-294-1060

scjhendrickx@ufl.edu

 

Andrea Bohn

Project Manager

+1 352-294-1064

abohn@ufl.edu 
   

Damien Chevaillier

Chief Financial Officer

+1 352-392-2180

dchevaillier@ufl.edu 
   

Erica Odera

Monitoring & Evaluation

+1-352-294-1062

ericalin@ufl.edu 
Mulubrhan Balehegn Gebremikael   

Mulubrhan Balehegn Gebremikael

Coordinator, Equip/FEED Project

+1 352-294-0525

gebremikael@ufl.edu 
   

Jim W. Harper

Communications Manager

+1 352-294-0525

harperfish@ufl.edu 
   

Lacey Harris-Coble

Project/Research Assistant

+1 352-294-0524

lharriscoble@ufl.edu 
   

Hannah Salvesen

Adminstrative Assistant

+1 352-392-9567

hsalvesen@ufl.edu 
     
   

Area of Inquiry Leaders 
Dahl   

Geoffrey E. Dahl

Co-Lead, Livestock Production & Disease Management

Professor, Department of Animal Sciences

+1 352-392-1981

gdahl@ufl.edu 
   

Jorge A. Hernández

Co-Lead, Livestock Production & Disease Management

Professor, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences

+1 352-294-4305

hernandezja@ufl.edu 

 		  

Arie Hendrik Havelaar

Co-Lead, Human Health, Food Safety, Diets & Nutrition

Professor, Emerging Pathogens Institute and

Department of Animal Sciences

+1 352-273-5921

ariehavelaar@ufl.edu 
Sarah McKune
 		  

Sarah McKune

Co-Lead, Human Health, Food Safety, Diets & Nutrition

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health and

Center for African Studies

+1 352-294-5495

smckune@ufl.edu


 		  

Conner Mullally

Lead, Markets & Innovation Translation

Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics

+1 352-294-7680

connerm@ufl.edu

 		    
   

Cross-Cutting Theme Leaders
Kathleen Colverson   

Kathleen Colverson

Lead, Gender and Youth

Associate Research Scientist, Animal Sciences

+1 352-294-7644

kcolverson@ufl.edu 

 		  

Greg Kiker

Lead, Future Livestock Systems & Resilience

Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

+1 352-392-1864

gkiker@ufl.edu
Ludgate   

Nargiza Ludgate

Co-Lead, Local Capacity Development

Assistant Scholar, Office for Global Research Engagement

International Center

+1 352-371-0743

rnargiza@ufl.edu 
Sandra Russo   

Sandra Russo

Co-Lead, Local Capacity Development

Professor, Office for Global Research Engagement

International Center

+1 352-371-0743

srusso@ufic.ufl.edu 

 
   

Renata Serra

Lead, Enabling Environment

Senior Lecturer, Center for African Studies

+1 352-846-0473

 rserra@ufl.edu

 
     
   

Monitoring and Evaluation
Sebastian Galindo   

Sebastian Galindo

Technical Monitoring and Evaluation Supervisor

Research Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Education and Communication

+1 352-273-0267

sgalindo@ufl.edu 
   

Country Coordinators
   

Isidore Gnanda

Coordinator, Burkina Faso

(226) 25319208 / 29

gnandaisid@yahoo.fr 
   

Moctar Karimou

Coordinator, Niger

(227) 92102447

mkarimou@mercycorps.org 
   

Zeleke Mekuriaw

Coordinator, Ethiopia

(251) 116172000

z.mekuriaw@cgiar.org
   

Felix Ngamije

Coordinator, Rwanda

(250) 788308670

fngamije2005@gmail.com

   

Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker

Coordinator, Nepal

(977) 9803705989

v.padmakumar@cgiar.org
   

Nouhoun Zampaligre

Coordinator, Equip Project, Burkina Faso

(226) 78646455

nouhoun@gmail.com 
   

Abdulmuen Mohammed Ibrahimu

Manager, CAGED Project, Ethiopia

(251) 912115740

abdulmuenibrahim@ufl.edu 
   

Internal Advisory Commitee Members
Dahl   

Geoffrey E. Dahl

Professor and Chair

Department of Animal Sciences
Glen Morris, Jr.  

Glen Morris, Jr.

Director

Emerging Pathogens Institute
Sandra Russo  

Sandra Russo

Professor

Office for Global Research Engagement

International Center
Dr. Pedro Sanchez  

Pedro Sanchez

Research Professor

Soil and Water Sciences

Department

   

External Advisory Board Members
Turk  

Dr. Joyce Turk

Chair

Independent Consultant

Retired Senior Livestock Advisor, USAID Bureau of Food Security
Alarbi  

Dr. Asamoah Larbi

Vice Chair

Independent Consultant

Former Country Representative and Chief Scientist,

Africa RISING, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Jacobs  

Dr. Michael Jacobs

Member

Chief of Party, USAID PRIME project, Ethiopia
   

Dr. Iain Wright

Member

Deputy Director General, Research,

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Makkar  

Dr. Harinder Makkar

Member

Independent Consultant

Former Senior Animal Production Officer, FAO
   

Ms. Ladd

Member

Consultant 

Former Senior Technical Director of Nutrition, ACDI/VOCA
 

Mr. Rob Readnour

Member

Managing Director,

Mountain Group Partners
MacNaughtan  

Ms. Kristen MacNaughtan

Sponsoring organization representative

Program Officer,

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 

Mr. Tyrell Kahan

Sponsoring organization representative

Livestock Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Livestock Systems Innovation Lab’s Activity Manager
     

Management Team / Area of Inquiry Leaders / Cross-Cutting Theme Leaders /Monitoring and Evaluation / Country Coordinators / Internal Advisory Committee /External Advisory Board

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This work was funded in whole or part by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Food Security under Agreement # AID-OAA-L-15-00003 as part of Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems. Additional funding was received from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors alone.