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Elsa Alina Murano (born Elsa Alina Casales; August 14, 1959) has been the Director of the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture & Development at Texas A&M University's Agriculture & Life Sciences program since 2012. She was the 23rd President of Texas A&M University from January 3, 2008, until her effective resignation on June 15, 2009.During August 2021 to June 2022, she temporarily stepped away from the Institute to assume the role of Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives at Texas A&M's Agriculture & Life Sciences Program, where she focused on federal initiatives engagement.
Before her current directorship at the Institute, Murano held multiple key positions. She was the President of Texas A&M University from 2008 to 2009, the Vice Chancellor and Dean of Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences from 2005 to 2007, and the U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety from 2001 to 2004.In 2006, Murano joined the board of directors at Hormel Foods.