Jacob is a molecular geneticist and plant breeder with over thirty years of agricultural research for development and delivery experience with different institutions including the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). For the past twenty years, has focused his effort on delivery at scale of agricultural technologies and innovations to small holder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa through various partnerships models. He has published extensively on biosciences, plant breeding, genetic resources, and agricultural policy.Currently leading agricultural transformation projects in DR Congo