Thierno Hady Diallo is a Senior Corn Research Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has a Master’s degree in Agronomy from the State Agricultural Institute of Kishinev, Moldova (Former USSR). After graduation, he worked for three years, then for 12 years on French and US crops and dairy farms, before joining the University’s Corn Evaluation program in 2007. He owns Gamou Farms and runs the Nana Foundation in his native Mali. Today, Thierno and his wife, Jennifer, raise their two boys in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA, where he is a board member of the Soccer Club and of the Police Chief’s Advisory Board. He authored two books, “Nieggri in Moscow under Gorbachev, My life as a foreign student in USSR” and “If you love your kids, set them right for 2045, how to change the world in one generation.”