The Borlaug Dialogue 666 Grand Ave, Suite 1700 Des Moines, IA 50309 USA Ph: 515-245-3783 • Fax: 515-245-3785 Email: wfp@worldfoodprize.org
FOUNDATION John Ruan, Chairman Emeritus John Ruan III, Chairman Amb. Kenneth M. Quinn, President COUNCIL OF ADVISORS H.E. Corazon C. Aquino Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Hon. George Bush Hon. Jimmy Carter H.E. Joaquim Chissano Margaret Catley-Carlson Chair, The Global Water Partnership Dr. Zhangliang Chen Vice-Governor, Guangxi Province, China A.S. Clausi Past President, Institute of Food Technologists Sir Gordon Conway UK Dept. for Intl. Development Michael G. Gartner Pulitzer Prize Winner Dr. Gregory L. Geoffroy President, Iowa State University Hon. M. Peter McPherson President, NASULGC Cynthia H. Milligan Dean, College of Business Administration University of Nebraska H.E. Roberto Rodrigues Former Minister of Agriculture, Brazil
On behalf of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, I extend a warm welcome for you to join us October 15-17 for our International Symposium at the Downtown Des Moines Marriott and our Laureate Award Ceremony at the magnificent Iowa State Capitol. Please plan to arrive by mid-day Wednesday, October 15, as our conference has been extended to three days. Register now to ensure you will have a place for what promises to be a dynamic series of “conversations” about the most pressing issues the world will face in terms of agriculture and development in the coming 50 years. We are extremely grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for its collaboration and support in shaping the focus of this conference, which will attract leading scientists, officials and leaders from over 60 countries to participate. We are also pleased that the generous support of the Mathile Institute has facilitated an increased national expansion of our Global Youth Institute for high school students. This is my tenth year of association with the World Food Prize. Over that decade, it has been our goal to build our annual symposium into a “Davos” of global food security, drawing the most influential individuals from around the globe for an annual “conversation” on feeding the world. To that end, we have shaped this conference - now known as the “Borlaug Dialogue” - to focus on the most cutting edge issues in food and agriculture, with the participants inspired by our founder’s historic achievements as the “Father of the Green Revolution.” To fulfill that goal, the World Food Prize Foundation is also undertaking a $29.8 million restoration of the century-old Des Moines Public Library (pictured above) as the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates. This historic edifice will be the new home of the Borlaug Dialogue beginning in 2010, honoring the “man who has saved more lives than any other person who ever lived.”
Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President
Register online now at www.worldfoodprize.org