Who sets IRRI policy? 

IRRI Board of Trustees on 16 April 2007
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Left-to-right: (L-R) Eun-Jong Lee (Korea), M. Syeduzzaman (Bangladesh), Achmad Mudzakkir Fagi (Indonesia), Ruth K. Oniang’o (Kenya), Emerlinda R. Roman (Philippines), Keijiro Otsuka (Japan), Mangala Rai (India), Elizabeth J. Woods (Australia), Usha Barwale Zehr (India), Ronald L. Phillips (United States), Jillian Lenné (United  Kingdom), Robert S. Zeigler (United States), and Ralph Anthony Fischer (Australia). Not present: Baowen Zhang (China) and Arthur Yap (Philippines).

An independent Board of Trustees sets IRRI policy. Its 15 members are world leaders in their respective disciplines. Three are ex officio: the Philippine secretary of agriculture, the president of the University of the Philippines system, and the IRRI director general. The board meets twice a year (April and September) to review IRRI’s research priorities and its allocation of resources and to set the Institute’s scientific directions, policies, and strategies. The Director General is responsible for carrying out these policies.

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