Hale Ann Tufan, from Turkey, completed her PhD at the John Innes Centre, and worked for CIMMYT, University of East Anglia School of International Development. Her current work focuses on building gender responsive agricultural research systems as principle investigator of the Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) project, and leading the participatory breeding and gender research work with the NextGen Cassava Breeding project, both through Cornell University.