Stephen Mugo is currently an independent consultant at CENTER FOR RESILIENT AGRICULTURE FOR AFRICA LIMITED (CRA-Africa Ltd). In 2020 he retired as the Africa Regional Representative and Kenya Country Representative at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center CYMMIT, based in Kenya. Stephen has more than 32 years of experience in agricultural research, 17 of them in service to CIMMYT under different capacities, most importantly as a principal scientist and maize breeder.