Malick N. Ba (Ph.D)

Dr. Malick Niango Ba (Burkina Faso) is a principal entomologist with 20 years of research on insect pests of legumes and cereals in West Africa. He is since August 2022 the Regional Director for West and Central Africa of the World Vegetable Center, based in Cotonou, Benin. Prior to WorldVeg, Dr. Ba worked from 2013 to 2022 at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and from 2002 to 2012 at the Burkina Faso National Agricultural and Environmental Research Institute (INERA). He had different visiting/scholarship positions in different US universities (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Purdue University, Michigan State University). He has also held managerial roles for 13 years; first as head of INERA’s research program on Legume grains and as ICRISAT Niger country representative/ Deputy regional director for ICRISAT West and Central Africa region. Dr. Ba is a member of the Entomological Society of America, the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, the African Association of Insect Scientists, and the International Organization of Biological Control. He has to date published more than 60 papers in peer review journals and co-authored a dozen of book chapters and manuals.