Elohor Mercy Diebiru-Ojo is an Associate Specialist, Seed Systems. She holds a BSc in Crop Science from Delta State University and MSc in Crop protection and Environmental Biology. She obtained her PhD in Plant breeding from the University of Ghana, Accra in 2017. She was a Norman Borlaug Leap Fellow where she served as a visiting scientist in Cornell University, USA from 2014 to 2015.  Elohor also holds the position of Vegetative Seed Specialist with IITA BIP-GoSeed. She currently leads the Development of Early Generation Seed Enterprises Component of the BASICS-II project and GoSeed yam component of the Program for Seed System Innovation for Vegetatively propagated crops in Africa (PROSSIVA) Project. She worked with the Yam Improvement for Incomes and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA) project where she built and implemented models for commercialization of early generation seeds in yams using novel technologies. She works with the cassava breeding program tocontribute to several cassava breeding projects and seed systems components of different projects and programs like NextGen, HarvestPlus, GIZ etc. She also contributed to the development and  release of four cassava varieties in 2020 and 2021 and has strong skills in analytical science, project management and implementation.