Jose Zaglul

President Emeritus of EARTH University

Dr José A. Zaglul is the President Emeritus of EARTH University, Costa Rica, dedicated to preparing leaders with ethical values to contribute to the sustainable development of the tropics and to construct a prosperous and just society. Dr Zaglul was President of EARTH University since its inception in 1989 until December 2017.

Prior to serving as EARTH University’s President, Dr Zaglul was Head of the Animal Production Department at the Centro Agrícola Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) in Costa Rica, an international centre for tropical research and the oldest postgraduate school of agriculture in Latin America. He was also a Food Science professor and later Vice President of Research and Extension of the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR) from 1981 to 1985.

Dr Zaglul is the former President (2005-2007) and a current Executive Committee member of the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture (GCHERA), the founder and president of the Central American and Caribbean Meat Processing Simposia (1983-2005) and serves on the Boards of the American University of Beirut, Citizens in Solidarity and United World College. He served as the co-chair of the five-year SEMCIT international seminar series (Sustainability, Education and the Management of Change in the Tropics) and travels extensively around the world to present EARTH University’s innovative educational model and raise funds for the institution.