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Rodomiro Ortiz (Lima,
1958) holds BSc-Biology (Honors) and MSc-Plant Breeding &
Statistics from the UNALM (National Agricultural
University, La Molina, Perú), and, a PhD-Plant Breeding &
Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).
He worked as researcher at
UNALM, Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP, Lima, Perú),
Rutgers University (Chatsworth, New Jersey, USA) and
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA,
Ibadan, Nigeria), held a Nordic professorship in plant
genetic resources at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural
University (KVL –now the Faculty of Life Sciences at the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark), and was Director of
the Genetic Resources and Enhancement Program at the
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid
Tropics (ICRISAT, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India),
Deputy-Director General, Director of Research for
Development, Director of the Crop Improvement Division,
and Officer in Charge of the High Rainfall Station (Onne,
Nigeria) and the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional
Centre (Kampala, Uganda) of IITA, and Director of the
Intensive Agro-ecosystems Program of Centro Internacional
de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT, El Batan,
México). He is currently the Director of Resource
Mobilization at CIMMYT.
He has also provided
consulting services to the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and at the
beginning of this millennium, assisted the World Bank in
developing a strategic note on “Science and Technology in
Agriculture: Biotechnology and the Gene Revolution”, and
has served more recently as external referee for reports
in desertification and climate change. Throughout his
professional career, he has authored over 650 scientific
publications of which about 60% are international refereed
articles (with 7.42 as average citation according to
SCOPUS) or edited book chapters. He has given 141 invited
lectures, seminars and international conference keynotes.
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