Warc

The West African Rice Company

Advisors

Pedro Sanchez

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Dr. Pedro Sanchez

Pedro Sanchez

Advisor to the Board

Dr. Sanchez is the Director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center, Senior Research Scholar, and Director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He was previously the Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre, and served as co-chair of the UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Soil Science and Forestry at North Carolina State Univeristy. Dr. Sanchez is a 2002 World Food Prize laureate and a 2004 MacArthur Fellow.

Pilu Giraudo

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Pilu Giraudo

Pilu Giraudo

Advisor to the Board

Pilu is the Founder of the Global Conservation Agriculture Network, Policy Coordinator for Sustainable Development and Planning at the Argentine Ministry of Agro-industries, and member of the council for the Argentine Ministry of Production. She is also the former president of AAPRESID, the Argentine association of no-till producers.

Fernando Vega Olmos

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Fernando Vega Olmos

Fernando Vega Olmos

Advisor to the Board

Fernando was the Executive Creative Director of Gowland Publicidad, the Executive Creative Director of Ratto/BBDO.

Martin Burt

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Martin Burt

Martin Burt

Advisor to the Board

Dr. Burt is a pioneer in applying microfinance, microfranchise, youth entrepreneurship, financial literacy and technical vocational methodologies to address chronic poverty around the world. He is the CEO of Fundacion Paraguaya, co-founder of Teach a Man to Fish, with over 23 million beneficiaries. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum and of the Global Food Banking Network. In public service, he served as Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay, Mayor of Asunción, and Vice Minister of Commerce.

Ignacio Lartirigoyen

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Ignacio Lartirigoyen

Ignacio Lartirigoyen

Advisor to the Board

Ignacio is an Advisor to Warc’s Board of Directors, bringing a wealth of knowledge from his own experience as the President and Co-Founder of Lartirigoyen, a leading agribusiness in Argentina. Additionally, Ignacio is a former chairman of the Argentine Association for Sunflowers and director of several agricultural companies. Ignacio holds a degree in Agronomy from the University of Buenos Aires.