Mr. Godson Aryee Zagbede is a Principal Technologist at the Farm Animal and Technology Division of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Animal Research Institute (CSIR-ARI). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) degree in Animal Breeding and Genetics from University of Education, Winneba and a certificate in Animal breeding and Genetics from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His research interests are broadly centred in the area of genetic improvement of populations through selection. He views animal breeding in a systems context involving the integration of knowledge and understanding of business goals, production systems, processing and marketing in concert with quantitative and molecular genetics. His activities have focused on the use of genomic data to predict offspring performance. These endeavours include theoretical aspects of prediction, development of software to apply the statistical theory to real-life data and the application of software to national and international datasets for a wide variety of traits representing a range of livestock and other species. This encompasses design, enhancement, implementation and monitoring of genetic improvement programs. He works well with other researchers and equally enjoys working with enthusiastic producer and industry groups that seek to include animal breeding approaches in the attainment of their farm or ranch business goals. He presently has six (6) peer-reviewed journal papers to his credit.