2. Exit Seminar of IRRI DG Robert Zeigler, part 2
Channel: International Rice Research Institute
Date: 10/12/2015

Robert Zeigler, retiring director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) , gave his exit seminar 10 December 2015 to a packed house of staff members at the Institute's headquarters in Los Baños, Philippines.

He asked the question, Have we brought hope and improved lives over the last 10 years? The answer is veritably YES. This is thanks mainly to the brilliant machine that is IRRI, made up of nationally recruited staff (NRS), internationally recruited staff (IRS), and postdoctoral fellows (PDFs). 

He illustrated the point with the gears of this machine being the NRS, IRS, and PDFs, all running at different speeds with innovative ideas and institutional memories. One couldn’t have designed a better system and it explains much of IRRI's great success.

Read more about this brilliant machine and many other topics in Dr. Zeigler's Pioneer interview: http://ricetoday.irri.org/zeigler-full-interview/