Prof. Paul S. Teng is the former Chair of the ISAAA Board of Directors and the non-Executive Chair of Asia Biobusiness Pte Ltd. He is also the Dean and Managing Director of the National Institute of Education International (NIEI), the education consultancy/outreach arm of NIE. Paul has worked on food security and the role of plant diseases in causing epidemics and crop losses globally. He is also involved in a network of national program scientists. He has produced over 250 journal papers, eight books, and numerous conference papers. His areas of expertise include food security influencer, policies and technology, climate change and agricultural production, commercialization and biosafety of crop biotechnology, bioentrepreneurship, and urban agriculture and aquaculture.