Please join on May 20 at 3pm (CEST) for the talk between Rita McGrath - professor at Columbia Business School, and Beth Bechdol - Deputy Director-General at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), on "Strategies and Innovation in Times of Uncertainty." Gladys Morales, '19CBS, will moderate the discussion.

The talk is organized by FAO InnoVentures Lab, an incubator and disseminator of the exchanged ideas and insights in the fields of innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship for food and agriculture. Please register for this event on FAO website HERE.

Rita McGrath is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty, and author of the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), and the latest book is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019).

Beth Bechdol has over twenty-five years of experience in the agricultural sector, and prior to FAO appointment Bechdol was the President and Chief Executive Officer of AgriNovus Indiana, the United States agro-bioscience organization.

Gladys Morales is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of GHMG Strategies, a company focusing on digital transformation, strategic partnership, and knowledge sharing.

Various images courtesy Selby Byashimova, personal archives; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "About" webpage.