President of the International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage, ICID (2020-2023); Fellow at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK

Professor of plant science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Associate Director of the Center for Desert Agriculture; Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Red Sea Farms LLC

Head of the Research and Extension Unit, Office of Innovation at FAO of the UN

Director of Strategy at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco

Senior scientist based at CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Full professor of soil science and program lead of the Center for Soil and Fertilizer Research in Africa (CESFRA) at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Morocco

Founder & Director The Salt Doctors, Netherlands

Africa Genome Center, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Ben Guerir, Morocco

Prof. of Soil and Water Sciences, Soil Science Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia