Craig Beyrouty
Member, AfricaRice Board
Craig Beyrouty is a soil scientist who has been involved in teaching, research and extension for over 45 years.
He currently serves as Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland in which he oversees college-wide undergraduate and graduate academics, the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station and the state-wide University of Maryland Extension programs.
Prior to his current position he served as Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, Head of Agronomy at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and was a professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas where he taught courses in soil science and conducted soil chemistry and plant nutrition research on rice, cotton, soybean, small grains, and grasses.
Craig also mapped soils for the Soil Conservation Service in Oregon and worked as a research scientist for Castle and Cooke Foods in Illinois. In his role as a faculty member and administrator, Dr. Beyrouty has travelled extensively internationally throughout his career, working in many countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, collaborating with numerous governmental and research organizations to address food insecurity issues in some of the poorest areas of the world.
