GROW Webinar: Development of new concise, data-driven crop reports: methodology, results, successes and limitations

Meet the Speakers

Colin Khoury, Research Scientist, New York Botanical Garden

Colin Khoury is a biodiversity, agriculture, and conservation scientist with over 25 years of experience in nonprofit, international, government, industry, and academic organizations in North America, Europe, and South America. He holds a PhD from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and a Master of Science from the University of Birmingham, UK. He currently works in both the crop genebank and botanic garden communities and coordinates the new Global Conservation Consortium for Food Plants. His primary areas of focus include food plant diversity, biocultural conservation, and plant genetic resources, including crops and their wild relatives.

Peter Giovannini, Project Coordinator, Crop Trust

Peter Giovannini leads the Crop Trust’s work on Global Crop Conservation Strategies, guiding publications, committees, formats, and initiatives to mainstream the GCCS in relevant plant Treaty Processes. He currently oversees a feasibility study on an Early Warning System for crop diversity loss. He holds a PhD and two MSc degrees and has conducted extensive ethnobotanical fieldwork in Latin America, as well as managing a seed conservation programme in the Pacific for Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.