Roslyn Moore

Eric Trachtenberg

Eric Trachtenberg is the Executive Director of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) where he provides strategic leadership to serve the cotton and textile community through promotion, knowledge sharing, innovation, partnerships, and by providing a forum for discussion of cotton issues of international significance.

Before coming to ICAC, he led design and oversight of more than $800 million in investments to improve food security, support agricultural transformation, and strengthen land productivity at the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). To date, 22 of MCC’s compacts have included food security-related investments totaling over $5 billion, including investments in improving land governance in over 15 countries.

His earlier background includes 15 years’ service with USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) including diplomatic assignments in the Russian Federation, China, and Taiwan and founding the agricultural practice at McLarty Associates, a global strategic advisory firm.

He has Masters’ Degrees in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University, another in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and Bachelors’ degrees in Government and Economics from Cornell University.

Rebecca Ballard

Cali Noland

Sheena Zadeh-Daly

Aurelian Lis

Ujjwal Kumar

Ujjwal Kumar is Lead Architect for Azure, emerging tech (Quantum Computing, Gen AI, Metaverse, Blockchain), security & sustainability at Microsoft Technology Center APAC, Singapore. He has 20+ years of diverse technology experience in various industry domains.  This spans his time in Microsoft with global partner enterprise architect, commercial software engineering, developer evangelist teams and more across Azure, AI, blockchain, security, mixed reality, IoT, through to quantum computing.

In his current role, he works with several top strategic customers, partners and enable them in accelerating their digital transformation journey through ideation, architecture & rapid prototype development. He has led several key projects from Microsoft in Singapore which includes SIA Kris+ blockchain based application, Surbana Jurong smart city, CCN Cargo network, CapitaLand bot. Ujjwal is also co-lead of Microsoft's internal worldwide Quantum Computing community and Azure Quantum Ambassador.

On academic front he has a master’s degree in information & technology leadership from National University of Singapore and professional certifications in Quantum Computing, leadership from Delft University, INSEAD & MIT, USA.