Management Staff

Director

Qu Liang, a national of the People's Republic of China, holds an M.Sc. in Agronomy from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His former positions include: Deputy Director-General of the Institute for Application of Atomic Energy, Beijing, from 1991 to 1995; Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation and Industrial Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, from 1995 to 1998; Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to FAO, from 1998 to 2001; and Director-General, Department of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences from 2001 to 2005.
Effective 1 August 2005 Mr. Liang has been appointed as Director of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division.

Subprogrammes

• Minh Long Nguyen
  Head Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section
• Pierre Lagoda
  Head Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
• Gerrit Viljoen
  Head Animal Production and Health
• Jorge Hendrichs
  Head Insect Pest Control
• David H. Byron
  Head Food and Environmental Protection

FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, Seibersdorf

• Erik Busch-Petersen
  Head FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory
• Gudni Hardarson
  Head Soil Science Unit
• Chikelu Mba
  Head Plant Breeding Unit
• Adama Diallo
  Head Animal Production Unit
• Alan S. Robinson
  Head Entomology Unit
• Andrew Cannavan
  Head Agrochemicals Unit

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