Michel Ghanem

Michel Edmond GHANEM is a Crop Eco-Physiologist and Agronomist that holds an Agronomy Engineering degree (Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth, USJ and Université catholique de Louvain, UCLouvain), a M.Sc. (D.E.A.) and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Louvain (Université catholique de Louvain, UCLouvain), Belgium, and an accreditation to supervise research (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches- HDR) from the University of Montpellier, France. He started his post-doctoral career as a Research Fellow at the CEBAS-CSIC (Murcia, Spain) where he was actively involved in the conception and the coordination of an EU-funded FP7 project in the field of root-science research (ROOTOPOWER - Empowering root-targeted strategies to minimize abiotic stress impacts on horticultural crops). Since then, he served at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA-CGIAR), Rabat, Morocco as Crop Physiologist where he established and led the Crop Physiology laboratory that was serving the global breeding and crop improvement efforts of ICARDA mandate crops. Pr. Ghanem was also the Program Leader for Genetic Resources at the Land Resources Division of the Pacific Community (SPC, Suva, Fiji) where he led the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT).