{"id":15346,"date":"2026-06-20T12:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/dg-sangingas-tenure-extended-to-ensure-stability\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:39:45","slug":"dg-sangingas-tenure-extended-to-ensure-stability","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/dg-sangingas-tenure-extended-to-ensure-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"DG Sanginga\u2019s tenure extended to ensure stability"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CGIAR-IITA Board of Trustees (BoT) has announced a one-year extension for Director General Nteranya Sanginga\u2019s leadership tenure. Board Chair, Dr Christian Borgemeister, disclosed this to the Institute\u2019s staff in a video address, where he explained the rationale for the decision to have the DG stay until November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Nteranya Sanginga, IITA Director General<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur reasoning as the IITA Board was that this would assure stability for the center during a period of unprecedented uncertainty because of the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the transformation of the CGIAR to the One CGIAR,\u201d Borgemeister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know that it would have been far too risky for the center to experience a transition in leadership during such a moment of volatility and a health crisis, and we strongly believe that this extension will assure a much smoother succession to new leadership,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Echoing those sentiments, members of the IITA Senior Staff Association welcomed the new development. In an earlier meeting with the former Board Chair, Dr Amos NamangaNgongi, some staff also spoke of the possibility of an extension of DG Sanginga\u2019s contract because they believed he had been good for the Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his tenure, Sanginga has overseen the large-scale delivery of research solutions to end-users, through partnerships with both public and private sector actors. He has also championed youth empowerment through agriculture, setting up the IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) and the Start Them Early Program (STEP) to teach young Africans about agricultural value chains from a \u201cfoundational\u201d age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanginga has accepted the extension offer and plans to build new initiatives on the foundation of the successes already achieved. \u201cObviously, Dr Sanginga will need your continued support to successfully steer our center through this very difficult time.\u00a0And we on the board are absolutely convinced that this will happen,\u201d Borgemeister concluded.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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