Participants
Wolfgang Pfeiffer

Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Plant Breeding Coordinator
HarvestPlus c/o CIAT
Cali, Colombia

Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer is the Plant Breeding Coordinator for the CGIAR HarvestPlus Biofortification Challenge Project. He provides overall leadership for all plant breeding activities, including the development and implementation of product concepts, enabling technologies and related plant science research. Dr. Pfeiffer obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Agricultural Sciences from Stuttgart–Hohenheim University in Germany. Before joining HarvestPlus, he was Head Plant Breeder/Project Manager of the Intensive Agro-ecosystems Program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico. He was responsible for applied and strategic bread wheat, durum wheat and triticale improvement under CIMMYTs global germplasm development mandate. Dr. Pfeiffer has 25 year’s of experience in the international agriculture arena in crop improvement, research strategies and methods, human resource development, and coordinating global and regional networks and projects.