Honorary Co-chairs

MSc (University of Arkansas, USA), First Plant Nematologist of Nepal; Former chief of Plant Pathology Division, Department of Agriculture; and former Executive Director of NARC.

PhD, former Director of Danish Government Institute of Seed Pathology for Developing Countries, Denmark; FIS World Seed Prize Winner.

DSc, Professor of Plant Pathology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark; the seventh Professor in the line of professors who hold the world's oldest chair of plant pathology founded in Denmark in 1883.