Diploma: master's degree in biology, specialist in vegetal production, biotechnology, molecular biology, and genetics. Current position: PhD student at ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) and in the University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco. Experiences in the field: practice in the glasshouse and quality laboratory.

Current position: Zakaria Kehel is ICARDA's Head of Genetic Resources, Pre-breeding, and Gene Bank Operations/Senior Biometrician, Rabat, Morocco. He is a postdoctorant at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). He is a research associate in Syria at ICARDA. He is a postdoctorant at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT).

Engineer in ecology and natural resources management at Institute agronomies and veterinaries Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco. Professor of mathematics in Agro Paris Tech, Paris, France. Experienced teacher: SPSS, regression, ANOVA, MANOVA, JAMOVI, JASP, Rstudio, hypothesis test, PCA, final dissertation, dimension reduction.

Current position: Head of genetic resources and deputy director of biodiversity and crop improvement program at ICARDA, Rabat, Morocco. He worked since 1980 as a cereal breeder at INRA-Morocco and released 18 barley varieties, five triticales, and contributed to the development of Hessian-resistant varieties of bread wheat and durum wheat. He joined ICARDA as the regional coordinator of a GEF regional project on conservation and sustainable use of dryland agrobiodiversity (1999-2005), was the regional coordinator for the West Asia program of ICARDA (2000-2008), and was the ICARDA country manager in Iran (2005-2009). He has contributed to teaching at universities in Morocco and Jordan and advised 28 MSc. and PhD students. He published a total of 132 papers, including 72 in referred journals. He participated in collecting missions, contributed to the development of genebanks at ICARDA, and provided technical backstopping and training on genebank management and genetic resource conservation and use in more than 17 countries.

Adil El Baouchi currently works at UM6P. Adil performs research in food science and end-use quality in cereal and legume crops. Disciplines: food science, agronomy, agricultural plant science. Skills and expertise: grain quality, food science and technology, cereal science, cereal technology, food processing, food technology, food chemistry, food quality, food analysis, food processing and engineering, food and nutrition, food rheology, food production, food biochemistry.

Current position: professor at Mohammed V University, Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, Morocco. Disciplines: cell biology, biotechnology. Skills and expertise: plant tissue culture, somatic embryogenesis, embryogenesis, legumes, plant biotechnology, plant breeding, plant physiology, embryonic development, seed germination, plants, plant biology, plant genetics.

Moez Amri has a PhD in biological sciences and plant breeding. He is professor of genetics and plant breeding at the University of Mohamed VI Polytechnics (UM6P). He has more than 17 years of experience in agricultural research for development (R4D) in the dry areas. He is skilled in plant breeding with a proven record in genetic enhancement of cereal and food legume crops and development of innovative climate-change-resilient varieties for the most climate-change-vulnerable regions in the world; CWANA, M. Disciplines: agricultural plant science. Skills and expertise: plant breeding, orobanche, parasitic plants, disease resistance, legume breeding, plant disease management, plant genetics, sunflower, field crops, agriculture research, plant biology, plant physiology, crop agriculture, legumes, genetics, abiotic stress, selection, marker-assisted selection, molecular markers, seed germination, crop management.

Shiv is leading ICARDA’s Food Legumes program, which aims at delivering improved germplasm of legumes to national partners in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and North Africa. He works on developing short-duration climate-smart varieties of lentil and grass pea with high iron and zinc content for sustainable intensification of cereal-based cropping systems. Disciplines: agricultural plant science, genetics, molecular biology. Skills and expertise: drought, plant breeding, disease resistance, biometrical genetics, plant genetics, plant genomics, abiotic stress tolerance, molecular marker development, association analysis, quantitative trait loci mapping, SSR, plant biology, drought stress, genetic analysis, hybridization, field experimentation stability, linkage analysis, molecular breeding, quantitative genetics, marker-assisted selection, quantitative trait loci analysis, molecular markers, molecular biology, genetics, crop genotyping, protein markers, nutrition legumes,  phylogenetic analysis, genetic diversity, cropping systems, omics, PCR data management, rice, ISSR, seed mapping, genomics, phylogeny, DNA marker technology, micronutrients, phenotyping, single nucleotide polymorphism, stability analysis, support vector machine, heat stress.