Cary Fowler<sup>*


*</sup>Cary Fowler is Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. In 1985 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (the “Alternative Nobel Prize”). In the 1990s, at FAO, he headed the production of the United Nation's first global assessment of the world's planet genetic resources; he drafted and supervised negotiations of FAO's Global Plan of Action, adopted by 150 countries, and served as Special Assistant to the Secretary General of the World Food Summit. He represented the CGIAR in negotiations on the International Treaty. He is currently Chair of the International Advisory Council of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. His address: Global Crop Diversity Trust, c/o FAO, Viale delle Terme di Carcalla, 00153 Rome, Italy.cary.fowler@croptrust.org