New TAC Chair Appointed
Dr. Emil Javier will begin a five-year term as TAC Chair on January 1, 2000. He was the unanimous choice of the Search Committee whose recommendation has been fully endorsed by the CGIAR System. Dr. Javier will attend the TAC meeting at ISNAR later this month as an observer, and will be at ICW99.
Emil Javier is already a member of the CGIAR family. He received his Ph.D in plant breeding at Cornell University, and has had a distinguished national and international career, with strong involvement in the CGIAR. He is naturally suited to join the eminent line of TAC Chairs established by Sir John Crawford. He is particularly suited to provide the CGIAR with strategic advice and guidance in confronting the challenges ahead.
In the Philippines, he has been Minister of Science, Director General of the National Science and Technology Authority, Chancellor, University of the Philippines, and has just completed his term as President, University of the Philippines System.
He has been the Director General of Asia Vegetable Research Development Center (AVRDC), and has served on CABIs Governing Board, the Board of ISAAA, and the Selection Committee for the World Food Prize.
Within the CGIAR System, Dr. Javier is currently Vice Chairman of the IRRI Board of Trustees, and has been a Vice-Chairman of TAC, Chairman of the TAC Secretariat Review Team, Chairman of the IRRI Board, and a Senior Research Fellow at ISNAR.