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CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS
P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria
Phone: (963-21) 2213433, 2213477, 2225112, 2225012
Fax: (963-21) 2213490, 2225105; E-mail: ICARDA@CGIAR.ORG
29
May 2003
For
more information contact:S.Varma@cgiar.org
Executive
Wing Named After Robert D. Havener
A
portrait and plaque were unveiled on Presentation Day to honor the outgoing
Chair of ICARDA’s Board of Trustees, Dr Robert Havener. The area in the
main administrative building at Tel Hadya, with offices of senior executives,
was named the Robert D. Havener Executive Wing.
Dr Havener, who became Board Chair in 1999, passed the responsibility to Dr
Margaret Catley-Carlson at the Board’s meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan,
last week.
The newly named wing houses the offices of the Director General, Assistant Directors
General, a boardroom, and other offices.
Mrs
Elizabeth Havener unveils her husband’s portrait in the Executive Wing
of the main building, named the “Robert D. Havener Executive Wing”
in his honor.
ICARDA's
(www.icarda.org) mission is to improve the welfare of people and alleviate
poverty through research and training in dry areas of the developing world
by increasing production, productivity, and nutritional quality of food, while
preserving and enhancing the natural resource base. ICARDA is a Future Harvest
Center.
Dr
Margaret Catley-Carlson Elected ICARDA Board Chair
Dr
Margaret Catley-Carlson was elected Chair of ICARDA's Board of Trustees at the
Board's meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, held on 20-21 May. She takes over from
Dr Robert Havener, who held the post from 1999.
Dr Catley-Carlson, from Canada, is enjoying a distinguished career and brings
to the Board vast experience in planning and administration for research and
development.
She chairs the Global Water Partnership, and advises or directs many international
organizations: International Development Research Centre, Ottawa (Vice-Chair);
Overseas Development Council,
Washington;
and CAB International, UK (Chair, Board of Governors). She is a Commissioner
on the World Bank Commission on Water for the 21st Century and member of the
International Advisory Committee–2020 Vision, of the International Food
Policy Research Institute. She is a member of the Canadian advisory committee
of the International Ocean Institute and Inter-American Dialogue. She is past
president of the Population Council (1993-98), and past president the Canadian
International Development Agency (1983-89). She was Deputy Executive Director
(Operations) of UNICEF, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General of the
United Nations; and Deputy Minister, Health and Welfare Canada.
Her international career began in the Department of External Affairs, Canada,
with diplomatic posts in Sri Lanka and London.
Dr Catley-Carlson graduated from the University of British Columbia, did postgraduate
work at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, and holds eight
honorary doctoral degrees.
A
souvenir picture in the Robert D. Havener Executive Wing. Left to right: Dr
Salem Al-Lozi, DG, AOAD, Sudan; H.E. Mr Trad El-Fayez, Minister of Agriculture,
Jordan; Dr Margaret Catley-Carlson, in-coming Board Chair; Prof. Dr Adel El-Beltagy,
ICARDA DG; H.E. Mr Osama Adi, Governor of Aleppo, Syria; Dr Robert Havener,
Out-going Board Chair; Mrs Elizabeth Havener; and Mr Abdul Ghafour Sabouni,
Secretary Al-Baath Party, Aleppo Branch, Syria.
“I
am happy to leave the Board Chair responsibility in very competent hands,”
says Dr Robert Havener to in-coming Board Chair Dr Margaret Catley-Carlson.
