Julian Alston
Professor, Department of Agricultural Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, USA
Julian M. Alston is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of the University of California at Davis. Professor Alston was raised on a farm in northern Victoria, Australia. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Melbourne, a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from La Trobe University, and a PhD in Economics from North Carolina State University. Prior to beginning in his current position in 1988, Professor Alston was the Chief Economist in the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in Victoria, Australia, where he had been employed in various capacities since 1975.
Gerard Barry
Program Leader, IRRI Program 4: Rice and Human Health, and Head, Intellectual Property Management Unit, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines
Dr. Gerard Barry is the HarvestPlus Rice Crop Team Leader www.harvestplus.org and Program Leader for the International Rice Research Institute www.irri.org Program 4 on Rice and Human Health, Coordinator of the Golden Rice Network www.goldenrice.org and Head of IRRI’s Intellectual Property Management Unit. Prior to joining IRRI in November 2003, Dr. Barry spent more than 20 years with Monsanto Company in St. Louis, USA, where he had various responsibilities, including co-head of the Rice Business Team, Head of the Rice Genome and Rice Genomics projects, and Director of Research for developing country research cooperation. Dr. Barry is co-inventor on 20 patents, co-author of more than 50 research articles, and has been a frequent invited speaker at international conferences. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from University College, Cork, Ireland, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York. Dr. Barry was also formerly Charge de Recherche at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France.
Dr Yves Bertheau
INRA Research Unit for Plant Pathology and GMO Detection Methods, Versailles, France
Dr. Kevin Boyce
Director of Seed Technology Institute Australia (STIA), Adelaide, Australia
Dr Boyce is the Director and Company Secretary for the Seed Technology Institute Australia. He is also a past president and personal member of the International Seed Testing Association, former Head of PIRSA Seed Services, Director of Seed Quality Management Australia P/L, Chairman of Technical Committee on training of the Australian Seed Federation and a member of the Technical Committee of the Australian Seeds Authority. Dr Boyce is an international consultant in Argentina, the Sultanate of Oman, Tunisia, and China and technical consultant for Sagric International in their projects in most middle East and North African countries.
Mr Alexander Döring
Secretary General of the European Feed Manufacturers Federation (FEFAC), Brussels, Belgium
Peter Flottmann
CEO, Grain Growers Association Ltd, North Ryde, Australia
Mr Peter Flottman is Chief Executive Officer of the Grain Growers Association Ltd, Australia’s largest grain producer services organization. His experience over 25 years in the grains industry includes senior marketing and trading roles with AWB Ltd, Continental Grain and Goodman Fielder Ltd as well as NSW Farmers Association and running his own private agribusiness consultancy.
Mr Flottman’s industry representation has included Council Member of the Australian Agribusiness Association, Executive Member of the Australian Rural Leadership Network and he is currently a member of the Cotton Catchment Communities Advisory Panel and Grain Trade Australia`s arbitration panel. He is also an interim Director of GGA`s subsidiary companies BRI Australia and interim Chairman of Agricultural Reconnaissance Technologies. Mr Flottman is a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership programme and Monash Mount Eliza Business School.
Randal Giroux
Scientific Lead, Cargill Inc and Chairman Global AP Coalition
Dr. Randal Giroux currently serves as Cargill Incorporated’s Science and Regulatory Leader for Agricultural Biotechnology. He is recognized both nationally and internationally as an industry expert in the integration of agricultural biotechnology in global food and feed supply chains. In addition to supporting Cargill businesses globally around agricultural biotechnology, Dr. Giroux is active professionally working with both science and trade organizations across the supply chain. Based on his background and experiences with both agricultural biotechnology and Cargill’s global supply chain businesses, Dr. Giroux possesses unique skill sets that allow him to understand biotechnology at a highly technical level and as well as its potential for impacts and opportunities for agricultural-based downstream stakeholders. Most recently, Randal concluded his tenure as a member of the USDA Agricultural Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21).
Phillip Glyde
Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), Canberra, Australia
Phillip Glyde is a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. He has responsibility for matters relating to agricultural productivity, food regulation and security, international farm trade and market access.
Phillip Glyde is also responsible for the department’s economic and scientific research activities and is the Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE). ABARE provides economic policy analysis and forecasts to enhance the competitiveness of Australia’s agricultural, fishing, forestry, energy and minerals industries.
Phillip has worked for the Australian Government on natural resource management, environment and industry issues both domestically and internationally, for the last 28 years.
Phillip has an Honours Degree in Natural Resource Management from the University of New England and a Bachelor of Economics Degree from the Australian National University.
Dennis Gonsalves
Center Director, United States Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center and Research Leader, Tropical Plant Genetic Resources and Disease Research Unit, USDA ARS, Hilo, Hawaii
Dennis Gonsalves was born and raised on a sugar plantation in Kohala, Hawaii. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Horticulture in 1965 and a Masters degree in Plant Pathology in 1968 from the University of Hawaii and a PhD in Plant Pathology from the University of California at Davis in 1972. He worked at the University of Florida from 1972 to 1977 and at Cornell University from 1977 to 2002. Dennis is currently the director of the USDA Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii. He led the research team that developed and commercialized the transgenic papaya in Hawaii.
Robert Green
President Australian Oilseeds Federation, Australia
Robert Green comes from a rural background and holds a Bachelor of Business degree. He joined Cargill in Towoomba in 1984 and held several roles in the Grain and Oilseeds businesses within Cargill in Australia before taking up an assignment with Cargill in the Netherlands. Mr Green has also held positions with Cargill in Thailand and Singapore. In 1999, Mr Green returned to Melbourne and eventually took up the position of Commercial Manager for the Grain and Oilseeds business in Australia. In recent years he has assumed other roles including General Manager, Strategy and Business Development , Director of some of the Cargill JV’s in Australia most notably the grain origination activities of AGAS (Australian Grain Accumulation Services)and Corporate Affairs Manager for Cargill Australia. Mr Green’s Industry activities includes positions as the President of the Australian Grain Exporters Association and the Australian Oilseeds Federation.
Geoff Honey
CEO Grain Trade, Australia
Mr Geoff Honey has been involved across the agricultural supply chain starting with family farming experiences through to managing a futures and grain marketing advisory firm. Overseas experience was gained in 1998 as the Team Leader on an agricultural commodity marketing project funded by the World Bank in Central Asia.
Mr Honey has been the Chief Executive Officer of Grain Trade Australia, since July 2003. Within Australia, GTA is tasked with the development of grain standards and terms of trade to facilitate commercial grain transactions across Australia.
Mr Honey is a Churchill Fellow with professional qualifications in agricultural science, arbitration and teaching.
Ram Kaundinya
CEO of Advanta India, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Prof Bernhard Koch
Deputy Director of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for European Tort Law, Professor of Civil Law, University of Innsbruck, Vienna, Austria
Professor Bernhard A. Koch was born in 1966 in Feldkirch (Austria). He studied law in Innsbruck (Mag. iur. 1989), Tübingen (Germany, Dr. iur. summa cum laude 1992), and Michigan (USA, LL.M. 1993). He completed his habilitation for private law and comparative law in 1998.
Professor Koch started to work as an assistant at the University of Innsbruck in 1985, where he was awarded tenure in 1999. After two years on leave for work at ECTIL and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he returned to Innsbruck, where he holds a chair in civil law. He also teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Professor Koch has been the Deputy Director of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for European Tort Law (ETL) since 2004. His main fields of research are tort, real property and family law as well as conflicts of law. Koch is a member of the European Group on Tort Law.
Michael Leader
European Seed Association/EuropeBio, Monsanto, Melbourne, Australia
Mr Michael Leader is the Corporate and Regulatory Affairs Lead for Monsanto Australia. In this capacity, he is responsible for the company’s public, government and industry outreach activities, as well as for obtaining regulatory approvals and ensuring regulatory compliance for Monsanto products being imported into, or used in Australia. Mr Leader has been in the position for 9 months, prior to which he spent 6 years working in Brussels, Belgium with the international biotech industry trade associations CropLife International and EuropaBio. In this capacity, he was heavily involved in international negotiations involving the issue of coexistence. Mr Leader was also part of the public service team that developed Australia’s Gene Technology Act. He holds both a law and a science degree from the Australian National University.
Gary Martin
President, North American Export Grain Association, USA
Gary C. Martin has served since June of 2000 as President and Chief Executive Officer of the North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA,) the association of US grain and oilseed exporters. Among several related activities, he currently serves with the US Department of Agriculture and US Trade Representative Agricultural Policy Trade Advisory Committee, and the Executive Committee of International Grain Trade Coalition.
Before assuming the presidency of NAEGA, Mr. Martin was a NAEGA Board Director and officer, representing Farmland Industries, Inc. At Farmland he had several responsibilities including Director of Trade and International Relations, Director of Grain Marketing, and Founder and President of Farmland Graños in Mexico.
From 1990 to 1992 Mr. Martin served the Administration of George H.W. Bush at the US Department of Agriculture as Deputy Administrator of Commodity Operations and as an officer of the Commodity Credit Corporation. In the first year of the Clinton Administration, from 1992 to 1993, he served as an advisor to the Special Ambassador to the former Soviet Union at the US Department of State.
Gary Martin earned a B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, with highest honors, from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is also a graduate of the University of Missouri, Institute of Cooperative Leadership, and has graduate studies in International Transactions at the George Mason University.
John Miller
President of NAMA (North American Millers Association) and owner Miller Milling Company
James Neilsen
Roundup Ready Canola Technology Specialist, Monsanto Australia
James has a degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Tasmania and completed a PhD thesis investigating “Water use of irrigated forage brassicas” in 2002. From 2003 to 2008 James worked for CSIRO Plant Industry in Narrabri New South Wales investigating the response of cotton plants to water stress. He started with Monsanto in September 2008 as the canola technical specialist. James works on the positioning of Roundup Ready® canola in the farming system, in addition to, researching trait performance.
Prof Yufa Peng
Professor and Director, State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Beijing, China
Professor Yufa Peng is chief scientist and director at the Center for Biosafety Research, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is well experienced with biosafety research and regulation of crops derived from modern biotechnology. His major emphasis in recent years has been on developing methodologies for safety assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). He is an overall coordinator for several national projects on biosafety assessment and management of transgenic plants. He is a member of the National Biosafety Committee in the People’s Republic of China, director of the Chinese Society for Plant Protection’s Committee on Biosafety, and vice-president of the Chinese Society for Plant Pathology. He also acts as Chinese delegate for Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology and in the expert group of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Biotechnology for China. Professor Peng has participated in EU FP6 SELAMAT project (Safety enhancement of edible products, legislation, analysis and management, with ASEM countries, by mutual training & research), which aims at creating a network for international co-operation on food safety issues between Europe and Asia.
Peter Phillips
Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Dr. Peter W.B. Phillips, an international political economist, is Professor in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. He undertakes research on governing transformative innovation, including biotechnology regulation and policy, innovation systems, intellectual property, supply chain management and trade policy. He is co-PI of a $5.4 million, four-year Genome Canada project entitled Value Addition through Genomics and GE3LS (VALGEN) which began October 1, 2009. His latest book-Governing Transformative Technological Innovation: Who’s in charge?-was published by Edward Elgar in June 2007.
Dr Chris Preston
School of Agriculture, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, Australia
Dr. Chris Preston is an Associate Professor of Weed Management at the University of Adelaide. He heads a research group focused on understanding and managing herbicide resistant weeds in Australian cropping systems. This includes research on factors driving the evolution of herbicide resistance in weeds. Dr. Preston has also published research on herbicide resistant gene flow between weeds, crops and crops and weeds. Dr. Preston has contributed extensively to the public debate about the introduction of GM canola in Australia and is a winner of the Grains Research and Development Corporation Seed of Light Award for research communication.
Dr Carl Ramage
Biosciences Research Division, DPI, Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre, Bundoora, Australia
Carl is the Compliance Manager within the Biosciences Research Division of the Department of Primary Industries. He has over 15 years experience working in gene technology as a research scientist and more recently in regulatory compliance management.
Carl led the team that developed and field tested Australia’s first and largest field trial to assess GM wheat for drought tolerance.
Dr Emilio Rodriguez Cerezo
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain
Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo has a degree in Agronomy (1983) and a Ph D in Plant Pathology (1988). He has been active in the interface between biotechnology and policy since 1997 when he was elected member of the first EU Scientific Committee for Plants managed by DG SANCO. In 2001 he joined the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) located in Seville-Spain. Since the Dr Rodriguez-Cerezo has run research and policy support in the fields of coexistence between GM and conventional production and in the economic impacts of GM crops.
Prof Roseli Rocha dos Santos
Head of Quality, Sustainability Research Group (QUIS), Unibrasil, Curitaba, Brazil
Professor Roseli Rocha dos Santos is QUIS (Brazil Integrated Faculties - UNIBRASIL) Research Group leader. She received her Bachelor Degree on Sociology by the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil and her Sociology PhD by Paris X University, Nanterre (1987). She was Professor and research team leader at Federal University of Paraná until 2001. Currently she is a researcher at UNIBRASIL. She has coordinated various projects on Rural Sociology, Organization Sociology Food systems in Brazil and Food quality. She is now responsible for the Co-Extra (GM and non-GM supply chains: their CO-EXistence and TRAceability) research group in Brazil.
Prof Rick Roush
Dean, Land & Food Resources, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Professor Roush’s career spans research, teaching, regulatory, and administrative appointments in both the US and Australia, including as Director of the University of California (UC) Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture Programs (2003-2006), Director of the CRC for Australian Weed Management (1998-2003), and as associate professor at the University of Adelaide (1995-2003) and Cornell University. From 1998 through 2003, Professor Roush also served on the Australian government genetic engineering regulatory committees, and on panels for the US EPA.
Professor Roush’s research has focused on strategies to slow insect pests and weeds from evolving resistance to GM crops, but he has also published extensively on biological control of insects and weeds.
Prof Dr Joachim Schiemann
Head of Institute for Biosafety of GM Plants, Julius Kühn Institute, Braunschweig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Joachim Schiemann, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Biosafety of Genetically Modified Plants, Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants. He is an Honorary Professor at University of Lüneburg. Prof. Dr. Schiemann received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Martin-Luther-University Halle in 1977. From 1976 to 1991 he worked as senior scientist at the Institute for Plant Biochemistry Halle and the Central Institute for Genetics and Crop Plants Research Gatersleben. From 1991 to 2007 he was senior scientist at the Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology and Biosafety, Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) and head of the Genetechnology and Biosafety Division. He has coordinated several national and EU-funded cluster projects on biosafety research. From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the Scientific Committee on Plants of the European Commission, Health & Consumer Protection Directorate-General, and from 2003 to 2009 he was a member of the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). From 2004 to 2008, Prof. Dr. Schiemann was President of the International Society for Biosafety Research (ISBR).
Prof. Dr. Schiemann is currently the Workpackage leader and member of Management Board and Executive Committee in the EU-funded project CO-EXTRA.
Dr Stuart Smyth
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Dr. Smyth received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan in 2005 and his research has focused on how societies regulate innovation. The focus of this research is on the innovation of agricultural biotechnology. Dr. Smyth is part of a group of academics that recently received $5.4 million in funding from Genome Canada to examine the genomic, economic, environmental, ethical, legal and social (GE³LS) issues pertaining to bioproducts and biofuels. Much of his resent research has focused on marketplace liabilities created by innovation and has been compiled in a forthcoming book titled, Innovation and Liability in Biotechnology: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives, published by Edward Elgar.
Prof German Spangenberg
Executive Director, Biosciences Research Division, DPI, Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre, Bundoora, Australia
Professor German Spangenberg is Executive Director, BioSciences Research Division of the Victorian Department of Primary Industries (DPI), Director of the Plant Biotechnology Centre and Professor (Plant Genetics and Genomics) with La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Professor Spangenberg received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg and Max-Planck-Institute of Cell Biology in Heidelberg, Germany. He carried out postdoctoral research studies at the Max-Planck-Institute of Cell Biology and the Institute of Plant Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland, becoming Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. In 1995 he moved to Australia to establish a plant biotechnology centre for DPI. Professor Spangenberg is Chief Scientist and Research Director of the Molecular Plant Breeding Cooperative Research Centre and Chairman of the Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre. He also leads the nodes for agrifood applications of the Victorian Microarray Technology Consortium, the Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium and the Victorian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics. Professor Spangenberg is also Director and Chief Scientific Officer of Phytogene Pty. Ltd., a biotechnology spin-off company of the Plant Biotechnology Centre, Managing Director (R&D) of AgGenomics Pty. Ltd., Australia’s first service company in agricultural genomics; and Chief Scientific Officer of Gramina Pty. Ltd. Professor Spangenberg was the recipient of the Australian Thinker of Year 2006 Award ‘in recognition of his world class innovations in pasture plant genomics and biotechnology and his leadership in bringing these innovations to the marketplace for the benefit of the wider community and temperate grassland agriculture worldwide’. In 2007, Professor Spangenberg was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering ‘for his inspiring and innovative research in agricultural biotechnology and as a world leader in pasture plant genomics and gene technology’.
Rene Van Acker
Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dr Guy Van Den Eede
Head of Biotechnology and GMO’s Unit, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Ispra, Italy
By formation, Van den Eede is an engineer in Chemical and Agronomical Sciences (division Industrial Biochemistry and Microbiology) from the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium (1982) with PhD specialisation in molecular biology at the State University Ghent (Belgium) (1982 - 1990).
In 1982 Dr Van den Eede started his career at the laboratory of Genetics, State University Ghent, in the group of Professor Marc Van Montagu, carrying out a molecular study of the symbiotic interaction between a soil bacterium and a tropical leguminous plant in collaboration with the ORSTOM laboratory in Dakar, Senegal. In Senegal, he was co-ordinator of an agricultural project which aimed at using green manure in rice cropping, as well as teaching and consulting for various national and international organisations.
Dr Van den Eede was appointed at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy in 1990. Since 2003, he has been Head of the Unit Molecular Biology and Genomics, with his Unit madated to operate the Community Reference Laboratory for GM Food and Feed. Tasks include the validation of detection methods for GM labeling and traceability compliance, distribution of control samples and provision of expert advise in cases of litigation.
Dr Van den Eede is the Chairman of the European Network of GMO Laboratories and member of different advisory boards. The Unit has forty members of staff working on projects of molecular biology, bioinformatics and molecular databases, method validation, biometrics and statistics. In support to the implementation of the EU policies on GMOs, Dr Van den Eede has been involved in risk assessment related to the widespread use and/or consumption of GMOs. Dr Van den Eede is also involved in the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and is a member of the management board of the Black Sea Biotechnology Association (BSBA).
Stephen Vandervalk
Alberta Vice President, Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association
Stephen Vandervalk is a 32 year old, fourth generation farmer from Fort Macleod. He farms with his father and brother and they grow red & white spring wheat, durum, canola, mustard, peas, barley and timothy. They also operate Falcan Industries Ltd., an equipment manufacturing business.
Stephen came back to the farm in 1999 after spending 4 years at the University of Calgary studying geology and economics. After university he spent a few winters traveling to places like Australia and Brazil to learn more about their agriculture. He has also been to Japan on a trade mission.
Stephen is currently the Alberta Vice President of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association and a director with the Alberta Winter Wheat Producers Commission. He also serves as the Vice President of Grain Growers of Canada. He has participated in Canadian Foodgrains Bank projects at Claresholm and Granum.
Stephen and his fiancé Michelle Bushaw plan to marry in the summer of 2010.
Andrew Weidemann
Farmer, VFF Grains Group Deputy President, Rupanyup, Australia
Andrew currently holds industry positions as Deputy Chairman BCG (Birchip Cropping Group) Farmer Research Group, VFF Grains Group Deputy-President, GCA Policy Council Representative, Our Rural Landscapes Precision Ag Advisory Steering Committee and Longernong College Advisory Committee.
Andrew holds an Advance Diploma of Agriculture and a GRDC Research Horizons for Grain Leaders of the Future Course Graduate. He was awarded the 2006 National Australia Bank Wimmera 2020 Young Agribusiness Achiever Award.
He is married to Julie and has three children Matthew, Sarah & Jordan. Their farm uses the latest technology available in Precision Ag incorporating a Quality Assurance system and on farm Storage system.
Justus Wesseler
Professor in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Justus Wesseler is Associate Professor for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His research focuses on the interlinkages between agriculture, environment, and development including among others the economics and policy of biotechnology. Justus contributes to several biotechnology projects, is co-editor of AgBioForum, board member of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnoloy Research (ICABR) and editor of the book “Environmental Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops” published by Springer Press. His research on the economics and policy of biotechnology has been published in more than 30 journal and book contributions. For further information see http://www.socialsciences.wur.nl/enr/staff/index.htm.
Prof William (Bill) Wilson
North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Dr. William W. Wilson received his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Manitoba in 1980. Since then he has been a Professor at North Dakota State University in Agribusiness and Applied Economics with periodic sabbaticals at Stanford University, teaching on Commodity Trading, Risk Analysis and Agribusiness Strategy. Recently, he was named as a University Distinguished Professor at NDSU, an honorary position. He was recognized as one of the top 10 Agricultural Economists in 1995.
Dr Wilson’s focus is risk and strategy as applied to agriculture and agribusiness with a particular focus on marketing, procurement, transportation and logistics, international marketing and competition. He is the Co-Director of the Center of Excellence in AgBiotechnology at North Dakota State University, working with industry and researchers to increase commercialization of agbiotechnology to crops grown in North Dakota. He has published extensively on topics related to AgBiotechnolgy and works routinely with industry and organizations (including, EU Co-existence, Joint Wheat Industry Biotechnology, GMACC amongst others) on agbiotechnology
Dr Wilson led a project for the United States on privatization of the grain marketing system in Russia in the early 1990’s. He currently has projects and/or clients in US, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, China, Australia, and France. He served as a Board member of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange for 12 years, on the FGIS Advisory Board, and currently serves as a Board member of several regional firms.