Professor Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo is an agronomist and forester with a special interest in non-timber forest products, wild edible plants, orphan crops, and crop wild relative species. He is a full Professor of Conservation Genetics, Forest Ecology, and Ethnobotany at the University of Abomey-Calavi in the Republic of Benin and a visiting Professor at Université Félix Houphouët Boigny in Côte d’Ivoire, University of Costa Rica in Costa Rica and the University of Florianopolis in Brazil. He serves as the Permanent Secretary of the Scientific Council in the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences at the University of Abomey-Calavi. Prof. Assogbadjo holds a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences and his areas of expertise include population genetics, ethnobotany, conservation, and domestication of forest genetic resources. He  has (co)authored 162 scientific articles, 26 books and book chapters, . He has several international prizes some of which include: the Ebi Kimanani Memorial Fellowship Award in 2008 (Peru), the Heinz and Johannes Prize for the best scientific research paper on ecology in Africa in 2009 (Germany), and the 2019 Young African Researchers Award. At AWARD, Achille trains in the Research proposal and scientific writing courses.