Prof Sanni Oladimeji Lateef is a Professor of Food Science and Technology and Dean, College of Food Science and Human Ecology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. He has over 20 years' experience in research, consultancy and collaborations as a postharvest expert on tropical root crops mostly in West Africa coupled with missions to Latin America, Asia, Europe and other parts of Africa mostly implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Root Crop and Natural Resources Institute, UK, respectively. He is the Country coordinator/Workpackages leader to some NRI EU/Gates sponsored projects since 2008 till date. He won the 2008 Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Award Regional Technology Development in Sub Saharan Africa (http://www.cgiar.org/newsroom/scientific.html). He was the principal Investigator, Food Developers Initiative sponsored by Association of African Universities in Nigeria, Benin and Sierra Leone since 2008-2010 and Food Science and Nutrition Network in West Africa, March 2010-Aug 2011 under the sponsorship of Association of African Universities/UK DFID. He is a mentor to the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development, Former National President, Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology (http://www.nifst.org/), President, African Branch of International Society of Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC).