William D. Dar
AKA William Dollente Dar
- 1st Filipino and 1st Asian Director General of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- 1st Filipino and 1st Asian Chair of the Alliance Executive of the Alliance of Centers (AoC, 2005)
- 1st Filipino alumnus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) to become Secretary of Agriculture (1998)
QUOTE
"If we do our job well, the result will be a more just, prosperous and equitable world - a world with the wisdom and resources to tame the monsters of overpopulation and environmental degradation."
DATE OF BIRTH
April 1953
BIRTHPLACE
Ilocos Sur, Philippines
WIFE: Beatriz Meria
CHILDREN: William Jr., May, Celeste, Christine
USEFUL LINKS
Being a different kind of cv. Globally Yours, William Dar
Discovery Manager: William Dar, Merlin of Ethanol
Filipino scientist takes on global desertification
Fighting hunger and poverty* - Keynote speech by William D Dar, Director General, ICRISAT
