Dr. Daraba is Associate professor at University “Dunarea de Jos” of Galati, Romania and Research Associate at Iowa State University, USA. She holds a PhD and MSc from University “Dunarea de Jos” of Galati, Romania. Dr. Daraba was a Norman Bourlaug/USAID Fellow at University of Kentucky, USA, and a postdoctoral fellow at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki funded by the Greek Government. Her area of expertise is food safety and quality, and HACCP in food industry and food service units. She works extensively in reviewing for scientific journals and national interest projects (Meat Science journal-USA; Graduate Women in Science Fellowships-USA; Action “Cooperation 2011”- Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning & Religious Affairs – Greece). Dr. Daraba organized several international workshops and webinars in the area of food safety and HACCP held in the USA, Romania, and Haiti. She was a food safety and HACCP trainer for Haitian food processors under USAID/FAVACA/PADF project. She authored and co-authored books and book chapters, research publications, and scientific presentations in the area of food safety and quality, foodborne pathogens control using non-thermal technologies and natural antimicrobials, and HACCP.

Agriculture, Food Technology

He studied his BS: Agriculture in University of West Indies, 1974. He completed his MS: Continuing and Vocational Education in University of Wisconsin Madison, 1981. He completed his Ph D: Vocational Education in Louisiana State University-Eunice, 1989.

Consumer food shopping behavior and preferences, consumer eating habits and choices in food deserts, role of community-based organizations in community development, complexity collaboration and problem-solving in communities and novel organization structures for supporting community development and entrepreneurship

Guy has worked with some of the world’s largest companies, and governments across Europe, Asia, Latin American, and the Middle East to support the growth of start-ups. Mostly he has done this through structuring and brokering more productive relationships between large and small organizations. Guy was previously a manager at Accenture Global Strategy, founder of the Opportunity Cooperative, Director at How To Impact and Head of Asia Pacific for Founders Intelligence. At Founders Intelligence, as part of the Founders Forum, he worked with some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and fastest growing start-ups. ​ Guy also ran initiatives to attract private capital to areas of “Green Growth” at the World Economic Forum where he developed new finance mechanisms to de-risk private capital entering the space. ​ Guy will be responsible for leading and running the SparkLabs Cultiv8 program in Australia.

Interest in Agriculture.

Dr. R.R. Sharma has completed his PhD in Horticulture at the age of 42 years from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut (India). At present, he is Principal Scientist at IARI, New Delhi. He has developed several varieties of mango and standardized several postharvest management technologies. He has worked as International Mango Regitrar for 5 years (1999-2004). He is Fellow of 3 Academies, and recipient of several honours and awards. He has authored 10 books and published more than 125 papers in journals of international and national, He has been serving as an editorial board member of 10 International journals.

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