The Seeds of Resilience Conference 2026

Karen Ellemann
Secretary General, Nordic Council of Ministers

Kati Lassi
Senior Specialist, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Lise Lykke Steffensen
Head of Department Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Beatrix Alsanius
Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Paul Neve
Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Aarhus University

Therese Bengtsson
Associate Professor in Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Dag Røen
Breeder and Project Leader, Njøs næringsutvikling AS

Aakash Chawade
Chair of Plant Breeding Methodology, University of Göttingen
Associate Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Marja Jalli
Principal Research Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland

Heli Fitzgerald
Project coordinator, University of Helsinki

Nils Stein
Head of Department Genebank, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), and Professor, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Ilse Kranner
Professor of Plant Physiology, Universität Innsbruck

Muath Alsheikh
Head of Research and Development, Graminor A/S

Jihad Orabi
Head of Molecular Plant Breeding, Nordic Seed A/S

Fiona Hay
Senior Researcher, Aarhus University 

Dagmar Janovská
Head of Gene Bank, Coordinator of National Program on PGRFA, Czech Agrifood Research Center 

Hamid Khazaei
Associate Professor, Plant Genomics and Breeding, Natural Resources Institute Finland

Morten Lillemo
Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Sandra Goritschnig
Scientific Officer, ECPGR

Magnus Göransson
Researcher, Natural Science Institute of Iceland

Roberto Papa
Full Professor in Plant Genetics, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Christoph Dockter
Head of Cereal Trait Design, Carlsberg Group

Guillaume Ramstein
Assistant Professor, Aarhus University

Henrik Brinch-Pedersen
Professor, Aarhus University

Carus John-Bejai
Wheat pre-breeder, KWS Group

René Lametsch
Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

Camilo Beltran Montoya
Agricultural Officer, FAO

Sylvain Aubry
Deputy Head of Section, Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG

Francesca Desiderio
PostDoc, CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics

Mallikarjuna Rao Kovi
Research Scientist, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Åsa Grimberg
Researcher, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Mogens Hovmøller
Professor, Aarhus University

Andreas Hansson
Senior Biotechnologist, Lantmännen

Ahmed Jahoor
Emeritus, Nordic Seed

Erik Alexandersson
Senior Scientific Manager, Novo Nordisk Foundation

Raman Babu
Global Research Program Director for Accelerated Crop Improvement (ACI), ICRISAT