Consortium Board Members

Pamela Anderson has been director general of the International Potato Center (CIP) since May 2005. Prior to becoming director general, she served as the deputy director general of research and as senior entomologist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia. She has worked in Latin America for 35 years and spent two decades working in national agricultural research systems before joining the CGIAR.

Pamela has an MSc in entomology from the University of Illinois, an MSc in human ecology from Harvard University, and a DSc in population sciences and vector entomology from the Harvard School of Public Health. A leading expert on emerging plant diseases, her research has included agricultural entomology, ecology and plant virus epidemiology, and links between agriculture and human health related to food security and incomes for resource-poor producers in the developing world. She has been an advisor to the Federation of American Scientists and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a research consultant at Harvard University, and a member of the Government of Ireland Hunger Task Force.