Professor Karim Maredia is an assistant dean and director of International Programs for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University. For the past 35 years, Prof. Maredia has worked with numerous international agricultural development projects. Prior to joining MSU, he worked with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico as a research scientist. Prof. Maredia has extensively traveled to more than 60 countries around the world and has disseminated knowledge, information, and new technologies widely to the global agricultural community. He has published more than 100 papers, policy briefs, book chapters, and co-edited eight books.

Since 2017, Prof. Maredia has been serving as a member of the African Union (AU) High-Level Panel on Emerging Technologies. He has been actively engaged in empowering young scholars from developing countries and promoting excellence in education. In May 2009, Prof. Maredia was awarded an honorary doctorate degree (doctor honoris causa) by the University of Ricardo Palma in Peru for his contributions to international human resources development. He has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards for his extensive global work. Most recently, Prof. Maredia was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) in New Delhi, India, in January 2023.