46th Annual Conference and
2010 Future Leaders Forum

June 6-9, 2010

"Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Development"

Speakers and Panelists

Owen Cylke, World Wildlife Fund

Owen Cylke is director, WWF Macroeconomics Program Office, which is engaged around issues related to development and the environment, more recently climate, development and the environment. He has been engaged over the past twenty years as a senior policy advisor with the Tata Energy Research Institute, National Environmental Policy Institute, Winrock International and WWF. Earlier he served as president of the Association of Big Eight Universities, a consortium of mid-west research universities. Mr. Cylke has also served as a senior officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Over a twenty five year career there, he served as deputy assistant administrator for Food and Voluntary Assistance, director of the U.S. Economic Assistance Mission to India and deputy director in Afghanistan and Egypt.

He retired with the rank of Career Minister. Mr. Cylke is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale Law School. He served in Ethiopia as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the Haile Selassie I University, Faculty of Law.

Mr. Cylke's 2010 Presentation