by Adriana Varón | CIAT Mar 30, 2017
He proudly says that he has known CIAT for the past 50 years. When he was a little boy, his father brought him to the Center uncountable times; few years later he came back as a college student; then, being director of the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, he spent time at CIAT’s genetic laboratories applying molecular biology tools for the study of biodiversity and here he established a tissue bank. Today, he returns, this time to join the Board of Trustees, like his father, Armando Samper, one of the main architects behind the creation of CIAT. “Hence my affection and admiration for this place,” he says.
It’s Cristián Samper Kutschbach, biologist from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, with master’s and doctorate degrees in Biology from Harvard University. He was founder of the Humboldt Institute in Colombia and, for nine years, he was director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Since 2012, he is the president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) headquartered in New York.
With regard to the celebration of CIAT’s 50th anniversary, Samper recognizes the importance of “reflecting not only on everything that has been done, but also on the impact achieved and the global impact that we could accomplish.”
See more: http://blog.ciat.cgiar.org/cgiar-and-ciat-are-an-anchor-for-building-a-sustainable-future-cristian-samper/
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