1. CGIAR Board Chair, CEO, and IRRI DG discuss critical issues
Channel: International Rice Research Institute
Date: 08/10/2013

Also see: http://irri-news.blogspot.com/2013/10/global-agri-research-centers-take-on.html and playlist at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNowyW0S1hI_mRK9mW_uJQngrCKZ5vI_V

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) hosted the 13th Meeting of the CGIAR Consortium Board (http://www.cgiar.org/who-we-are/whos-who/consortium-board), 30 September-3 October 2013. Back to back with the CB meeting was a retreat of the board chairpersons and directors general of the various CG Centers. Forty CB members, Center board chairs and DGs, and staff of the CG Fund Office and the Consortium Office participated in these meetings.

The CB meeting tackled a number of issues the resolution of which are vital to the CG reform process and the overall health of the CG system and its component agricultural research centers, including IRRI. 

In this video, Carlos Pérez del Castillo, chair of the CGIAR Consortium Board; Frank Rijsberman, chief executive officer of the consortium; and Robert Zeigler, IRRI director general, discuss the capacity of the CG system to address critical issues.