Career
Until end 2009 he was the Chair of the Borad of Trustees of the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), based in Aleppo, Syria. An agricultural economist, Gryseels is committed to ICARDA"s mission of alleviating poverty and hunger in dry areas of the developing world. He is currently Director General of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, where he initiated a reorganization and renovation of the museum, which painted until then an uncritical picture of the colonial past of Belgium.
Earlier, he served as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Italy.
He also held other important positions in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, including that of Executive Secretary of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research"s Impact Assessment and Evaluation Group. From 1979 to 1987, he held various senior positions at the International Livestock Center for Africa, in Ethiopia.
