Fund Council Membership
The Fund Council is a representative body of Fund Donors and other stakeholders, composed of donor countries, multilateral and global organizations and foundations, and representatives of the South.
- Donor Countries are members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the four constituencies used for Council membership purposes are: Europe, North America, Asia and the Pacific;
- Multilateral and Global Organizations and Foundations are multilateral organizations contributing to the Fund, foundations contributing to the Fund, and the Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR);
- Developing Countries and Regional Organizations serving the South comprises representatives for the following constituencies:
(i) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), (ii) Asia, (iii) Pacific, (iv) Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA), (v) Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and (vi) the Regional Fora (for agricultural research constituted by countries in each developing country region).
The minimum contribution to be eligible for representation in the Fund Council is US$ 500,000.
Fund Council Chair
The Fund Council Chair is nominated by the World Bank President from among the Vice Presidents of the World Bank, after informal consultation with the Fund Donors. The Chair leads the conduct of the Fund Council’s business, chairs the Fund Council meetings, and represents the CGIAR Fund in external fora. The current chair is Rachel Kyte. Kyte was appointed Fund Council Chair on November 9, 2011, by the Fund Council.
Click here for Rachel Kyte's short bio
Inaugural Fund Council
The inaugural Fund Council, established on the basis of prior contributions (2007-2008), has 22 seats allocated as follows (as of September 21, 2011):
| Composition of CGIAR Fund Council | ||
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Chair: Rachel Kyte
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| Donor Countries | ||
| Europe | Philippe Thevenoux | European Commmission |
| Carmen Thoennissen | Switzerland | |
| Philip Chiverton | Sweden | |
| Alan Tollervey | United Kingdom | |
| North America | Iain MacGillivray | Canada |
| Robert Bertram | United States | |
| Asia | Kenichiro Tanaka | Japan |
| Pacific | Nick Austin | Australia |
| Developing Countries and Regional Organizations | ||
| Sub Saharan Africa | Romano Kiome | Kenya |
| B.Y. Abubakar | Nigeria | |
| Asia | Anping Ye | China |
| S. Ayyappan | India | |
| Pacific | Raghunath Ghodake | Papua New Guinea |
| CWANA | Rachid Dahan | Morocco |
| LAC | Luciano Nass | Brazil |
| Regional Fora | Ahmed Nasser Al-Bakri | Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) |
| Multilateral and Global Organizations and Foundations | ||
| World Bank | Juergen Voegele | |
| IFAD | Rodney Cooke | |
| FAO | Xiangjun Yao | |
| Foundations | Prabhu Pingali | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Jean Lebel | IDRC | |
| GFAR | Monty Jones | |
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TOTAL
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22 | |
The following underlying principles are embedded in Fund Council membership:
1. Donor country seats will take into account recognition of share of their funding (not exact proportionality), and regional balance. This will recognize, over time, the value of unrestricted or program funding, whether supporting the SRF or its component programs.
2. The Council will maintain North-South balance in its membership.
3. Constituencies are free to rotate their seats according to their own rules (which should be shared for information with the Fund Council in the interest of transparency, not decision).
4. In the event that a Southern constituency does not have a qualifying Fund Donor, a regional organization should be asked to manage a process that will decide on a Fund Council representative to serve until a qualifying member emerges.
5. Members will be expected to disclose and manage conflicts of interest.
6. Effectiveness of the initial Fund Council will be reviewed as part of the external review of the System in three years, and suggested revisions might be proposed to change Fund Council composition. In this case, a special meeting including all Fund Donors will be called to decide on any changes (as needed).
The term of membership for the inaugural Fund Council is three calendar years for all members, unless otherwise agreed by the Fund Council.