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Dr. Rattan Lal, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Univer­ of (2014­2016), and he is among Researchers
Dr. Rattan Lal
Dr. Andrew Hammermeister

sity Professor of Soil Science and Director of in Agriculture (2014­2020), as well as ranked
the CFAES Carbon Management and Seques­ #111 globally and #1 in Agriculture and
tration Center at The Ohio State University, as Agronomy among the top 2% of scientists by
well as an Adjunct Professor of University of Ioannidis et al. (2019, 2020). He has received
Iceland and the Indian Agricultural Research an Honoris Causa degree from nine universi­
Institute (IARI), India. He received a B.S. from ties in Europe (Nor way, Moldova, Germany,
Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India Spain), USA, South America (Chile) and A sia
(1963); M.S. from Indian Agricultural Research (India); the Medal of Honor from UIMP, San­
Institute, New Delhi, India (1965); and Ph.D. tander, Spain (2018); the Distinguished Ser vice
from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Medal of IUSS (2018); and is fellow of the five
Ohio (1968). He ser ved as Sr. Research Fellow professional societies. Dr. Lal has mentored
with the University of Sydne y, Australia (1968­ 112 graduate students, 54 postdoctoral resear­
69), Soil Physicist at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria chers and 181 visiting scholars from around
(1970­87), and Professor of Soil Science at the world. He was President of the World Asso­
OSU (1987 to date). His research interests ciation of Soil and Water Conser vation (1987­
include soil carbon sequestration for food and 1990), International Soil and Tillage Research
climate security, conser vation agriculture, soil Organization (1988­1991), Soil Science Society
health, principles and practices of soil erosion of America (2006­2008), and the International
control, soil structure and carbon dynamics, Union of Soil Sciences (2017­2018). He holds a
eco­intensification of agroecosystems, soil Chair in Soil Science and Goodwill Ambassa­
restoration, the fate of soil carbon transported dor for Sustainability Issues for the Inter­Ame­
by soil erosion, and sustainable management rican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
of world soils. Prof. Lal is Editor­In­Chief of (IICA), Costa Rica, and member of the 2021
Advances in Soil Science and of the Enc yclo­ United Nations Food Security Summit Science
pedia of Soil Sciences. He was the Speaker Committee and Action Tracks 1 and 3 Commi­
for Summer 2019 commencement, and TEDx ttees. Dr. Lal is laureate of the GCHERA World
speaker for the Ohio State University in 2021. Agriculture Prize (2018), Glinka World Soil Prize
He has authored/co­authored over 1000 refe­ (2018), Japan Prize (2019), U.S. Awasthi IFFCO
reed journal articles and more than 550 book Prize of India (2019), Arrell Global Food Innova­
chapters, has written and edited/co­edited tion Award of Canada (2020), World Food Prize
more than 100 books. Prof. Lal has cumulative (2020), and Padma Shri Award (2021) of the
citation index of 120,000 and h­index of 164. Government of India.
He was included in the Thomson Reuters list
Dr. Andrew Hammermeister is the Director coordinated national initiative for organic agri­
of the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada cultural research in Canada where he leads
(OACC) and Associate Professor in the Faculty national organic research priority setting,
of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, Nova coordination, and impact assessment . He
Scotia, Canada. He has a B.Sc. in Agriculture sits on the national organic standards review
specializing in Soil Science from the University committee and several other organic sector
of Saskatchewan, M.Sc. in Land Reclama­ committees.
tion and Ph.D. in Applied Ecology from the
University of Alberta. Andrew has worked with
the OACC since 2002, collaborating in research
on grain, vegetable and fruit cropping systems,
exploring soil fertility and weed management.
Most recently he has been studying, small
bush fruits such as haskap, landscape biodi­
versity, and applications of smart technologies
to organic agriculture. Andrew is the Science
Director for the Organic Science Cluster, the
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