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Global Millet Leaders

A profile directory of farmers, entrepreneurs, scientists, manufacturers, policy makers and institutions contributing to the global millet movement.

Dr. Himanshu Pathak
Dr. Himanshu Pathak
Director General
ICRISAT
Scientist / Researcher
📍 India

Director General of ICRISAT, Dr. Himanshu Pathak is a global agricultural leader working on climate-resilient...

Shauravi Malik
Shauravi Malik
Co-founder
Wholsum Foods / Slurrp Farm
Entrepreneur
📍 India

Shauravi Malik is the Co-founder of Wholsum Foods, the company behind popular millet-based brands Slurrp Farm...

Chef Pierre Thiam
Chef Pierre Thiam
Co-founder & President
Yolélé Foods
Entrepreneur
📍 Senegal / USA

Chef Pierre Thiam is a Senegalese chef, author, and entrepreneur known for bringing West African food traditio...

Joanna Kane-Potaka
Joanna Kane-Potaka
Smart Food Founder / Former ICRISAT Leader
Smart Food / ICRISAT / GFAiR
Scientist / Researcher
📍 Australia

Joanna Kane-Potaka is a global food systems leader and one of the key voices behind the Smart Food movement. S...

Dr. Zhao Wei
Dr. Zhao Wei
Senior Research Scientist
Chinese Academy of Sciences
research
📍 China

Dr. Zhao Wei is the custodian of China's extraordinary millet genetic heritage, overseeing a gene bank of over...

Chef Fatmata Binta
Chef Fatmata Binta
Founder
Dine on a Mat
Entrepreneur
📍 Sierra Leone / Ghana

Chef Fatmata Binta is a Sierra Leonean-Ghanaian chef and food advocate known for celebrating Fulani food cultu...

Prof. Li Xiaoming
Prof. Li Xiaoming
Director of Millet Research Institute
Shanxi Agricultural University
research
📍 China

Prof. Li Xiaoming directs China's premier millet research institute at Shanxi Agricultural University, China's...

Inoussa Drabo
Inoussa Drabo
Pearl millet breeder
INERA
Scientist / Researcher
📍 Burkina Faso

Inoussa Drabo is a pearl millet breeder from Burkina Faso associated with millet improvement and farmer-focuse...

Rajesh Krishnamurthy
Rajesh Krishnamurthy
Chief Executive Officer
NITI Aayog — Millet Mission Cell
policy
📍 India

Rajesh Krishnamurthy heads the dedicated Millet Mission Cell established within India's NITI Aayog to coordina...

Dr. Issoufou Kapran
Dr. Issoufou Kapran
Seed Systems Specialist
ICRISAT-Mali
Scientist / Researcher
📍 Niger / Mali

Dr. Issoufou Kapran is a West African seed systems expert known for his work on millet and sorghum seed develo...

Dr. Bettina I. G. Haussmann
Dr. Bettina I. G. Haussmann
Plant breeder, DITSL
University of Hohenheim-linked work
Scientist / Researcher
📍 Germany

Dr. Bettina I. G. Haussmann is a German plant breeder and scientist known for her research on West African pea...

Kofi Asante
Kofi Asante
Founder & CEO
MilMart Technologies
entrepreneurship
📍 Kenya

Kofi Asante built East Africa's first B2B digital millet marketplace from a single laptop in a Nairobi co-work...

Dr. Fatou Diallo
Dr. Fatou Diallo
Regional Millet Programme Lead
CGIAR — West & Central Africa
research
📍 Mali

Dr. Fatou Diallo coordinates CGIAR's millet improvement programme across 14 West and Central African countries...

Prof. Maria Santos
Prof. Maria Santos
Professor of Agricultural Systems
Embrapa — University of Campinas
research
📍 Brazil

Prof. Maria Santos is Latin America's leading sorghum scientist, whose research has demonstrated sorghum's exc...

Dr. James Morrison
Dr. James Morrison
Head of Bioenergy Research
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
research
📍 USA

Dr. James Morrison leads the team that demonstrated sorghum cellulosic ethanol's cost parity with corn ethanol...

Pierre Thiam
Pierre Thiam
Co-Founder
Yolélé Foods
entrepreneurship
📍 USA

Pierre Thiam is perhaps the world's most celebrated African grain ambassador. The Senegalese chef and co-found...

Prof. Lena Hoffmann
Prof. Lena Hoffmann
Chair of Cereal Crop Science
Wageningen University
research
📍 Netherlands

Prof. Lena Hoffmann led the Wageningen Water Resources Group study that definitively quantified millets' 80% w...

Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller
Senior Analyst — Organic Food Markets
Euromonitor International
market
📍 Germany

Thomas Müller is Europe's foremost analyst of the ancient grains retail market, whose data documenting millet...

Dr. Anna Kowalski
Dr. Anna Kowalski
Principal Researcher — Functional Foods
CREA — Italian National Institute for Food Nutrition Research
nutrition
📍 Italy

Dr. Anna Kowalski developed the pearl millet-chickpea blend pasta that achieved taste parity with durum wheat...

Dr. Sarah Mitchell
Dr. Sarah Mitchell
Senior Researcher — Climate Crops
CSIRO
research
📍 Australia

Dr. Sarah Mitchell leads CSIRO's millet research programme within the Australian national consortium funded by...