Dr Moses Osiru is a Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank based in the Uganda Country office. He holds a Ph.D. in Agriculture (Plant Pathology) and an MSc (Plant Breeding/ Pathology). He has over 20 years of experience in the agricultural and higher education sectors, including close to ten years within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Dr. Moses was the first Manager of the Regional Coordination Unit of the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund of the Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology based at icipe (International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology), Nairobi, Kenya, whose aim is to double the number of African Ph.D.s. As a Regional Pathologist with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Dr. Moses supported smallholder farmers to improve groundnut production and marketing, including by mitigating aflatoxin contamination in groundnut in Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Ghana (based in Bamako, Mali) and in Eastern and Southern Africa (based in Lilongwe, Malawi). While working at the Ministry of Agriculture (PMA Secretariat, NARS Secretariat) in Uganda, Dr. Moses facilitated the reviewing and reforming of Uganda's agricultural research, leading to the new Uganda Agricultural Research Policy in 2004. He also led the development of ECOWAS's Strategy and Action Plan for the Control of aflatoxins in West and Central Africa and a needs assessment for African agricultural research and training institutions to enhance collaboration with Brazil.