25/06/09 – Organizers of EXPO Milano 2015 announced the approval of the establishment of the Expo Scientific Committee, which will contribute to maintaining a high level of quality in the content and projects of the Expo in 2015.The committee will be presided by Professor Roberto Schmid, Director of IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia - Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia) and former Rector of the University of Pavia, who has an extensive experience in the field of education and research.Adriano Gasperi, doctor, coordinator of programs in development cooperation in several countries, and former Executive Secretary of the 15th Antarctic Consultative Meeting (ATCM), will be the Secretary-General.

The other members announced- the final list of committee members will be finalized in the near future – were:

• Per Pinstrup Andersen, agricultural economist and former Director-General of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), who launched the initiative, “Vision 2020,” a research program on global food security
• Joachim Von Braun, a member of the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Professor of economics and policies of food, and former President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
• Ismail Seralgedin, Director of the Biblioteca Alessandrin and Co-Founder of the Global Water Partnership
• Claudia Sorlini, Professor of agriculture microbiology, Dean of the Agriculture Faculty at the University of Milan, head of Center of Advanced Studies and Research in the “agri-food” sector in dry zones at the Univerisity of Haim Shans in Egypt
• Francesco Salamini, Professor of genetic technologies at Università Statale Milano, member of Accademia dei Georgofili and Accademia Nazionale di Agricoltura, former Director of the Department of Plant Cultivation of the Max-Planck Institute in Cologne
• Gian Michele Calvi, President of EUCENTRE (European Center for Earthquake Engineering), Professor of structural design at the University of Pavia, and Director of the Center of Research and Graduate Studies in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology at the IUSS of Pavia
• Enrico Porceddu, Professor of agricultural genetics at University of Tuscia, internationally-recognized expert in the field of plant genetics, and coordinator of the doctoral program at the Ricerche Internazionali in Agrobiodiversità.

(Source: EXPO Milano 2015 official website - www.milanoexpo-2015.com)