Center Directors General

Nteranya Sanginga has been director general of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria, since November 2011. He has held positions at the University of Zimbabwe, IITA, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT-TSBF) where he was executive director from 2003 to 2011.
Nteranya played a major role in creating the Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihood in Central Africa that includes three CGIAR Consortium Research Centers (IITA, CIAT-TSBF, and Bioversity), university partners in Belgium, national research and development partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda.

Nteranya serves on the United Nations Environment Programme Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel and as an advisor on sustainable land management to the Global Environment Facility. He is on the editorial board of the Applied Ecology Journal and an editor for several other journals.

Nteranya did most of his postgraduate training at IITA and his PhD in agronomy and soil microbiology under a joint program between IITA and the Institut Facultaire des Sciences Agronomiques, Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.