Bruce Gardner - Professor and department chair, department of agricultural and resource economics, University of Maryland
Expertise: Agricultural policy analysis; economics of international food trade

Credentials: USDA Assistant Secretary for Economics, 1989-91; faculty member, Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy, University of Maryland
Contact: (301) 405-1271; bruceg@arec.umd.edu
Website: www.arec.umd.edu/bgardner

Howard Leathers - Associate professor, agricultural and resource economics, University of Maryland
Expertise: World food supply and demand (world hunger), including Africa; general state of the world and future prospects

Credentials: Senior staff economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1992-93; author, numerous articles, American Journal of Economic Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, National Food Review
Contact: (301) 405-1277; howardl@arec.umd.edu
Website: www.arec.umd.edu/hleathers/

Robert T. Jackson - Associate professor, nutrition and food science, University of Maryland
Expertise: International nutrition; nutritional anemias, diet and chronic diseases; studies nutritional anemias and their causes and distribution among various population groups in the U.S. and around the world; also studies nutritional determinants of chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus, mainly in low income countries

Credentials: Has been a consultant for World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization and for various governments; has designed and evaluated anemia and other micro nutrient reduction programs for governments of several low-income countries, including Egypt, Kuwait and Liberia.
Contact: rj36@umail.umd.edu ; Ellen Ternes, (301) 405-4627, eternes@accmail.umd.edu
Website: www.agnr.umd.edu/users/nfsc/jackson.htm

Bettye K. Walters - Director, Center for Government and Corporate Veterinary Medicine, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland
Expertise: Food security and food safety in developing countries; international trade issues, intercultural communications concerns; meat and poultry safety

Credentials: Teaches international veterinary medicine; Advanced Food Safety for Veterinarians: Perspectives, Practice and Policy-- food borne hazards, testing and sampling, prevention and control strategies through the food chain, including Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points systems; attended World Veterinary Congress, Tunisia, '02
Contact: (301) 314-6821; bw93@umail.umd.edu
Website: www.vetmed.umd.edu/cgcvm/faculty.html

Linda Detwiler - Adjunct professor, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland
Expertise: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), including "mad cow disease;" emergency preparedness and import/export animal product issues, including swine health protection, foreign animal disease response, endemic disease control and eradication programs

Credentials: Senior Staff Veterinarian, Emergency Programs Staff, USDA, 1996-2002 - coordinated surveillance, prevention and education activities for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE); former Veterinarian in Charge - New Jersey, USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services; currently a private animal health consultant - clients include McDonald's Corporation, USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Chronic Wasting Disease,) New Jersey Department of Agriculture
Contact: 732-741-2290; LAVET22@aol.com

Y. Martin Lo -Assistant professor, food bioprocess engineering and food safety extension, nutrition and food science, University of Maryland
Expertise: International coordination; Food bioprocess engineering: value-added product development; development of whole-cell biosensor to improve food safety; integrating biotechnology with state-of-the-art strategies in process engineering to ensure safety of food and processing; recovery and bioconversion of organic materials from food processing waste streams

Credentials: Experience in industrial HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) training; industrial troubleshooting; food science/safety education
Contact: (301) 405-4509; yl89@umail.umd.edu
Website: www.agnr.umd.edu/users/nfsc/martinlo.htm

William M. Rivera - associate professor, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Institute of Applied Agriculture, University of Maryland
Expertise: International agriculture and extension; international strategies to reform and develop agricultural extension institutions and their knowledge dissemination systems

Credentials: 25 years of international experience with Organization of American States, UNESCO, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and World Education Inc.; also served as a consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO/UN), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank, and private sector; chief of party or team member in numerous project missions aimed at achieving policy and institutional goals to advance agricultural extension services and develop extension staff; initiated Center for International Extension Development (CIED), at the University of Maryland, 1985
Contact: (301)405-1253; wr@umd.edu
Website: www.agnr.umd.edu/users/rivera/rivera.htm