General Assembly
General Assembly
The General Assembly is composed of representatives of the Plant ETP. It ensures that all ETP activities contribute to the Plant ETP long-term goal: Strengthening European Plant Research and Innovation - Vision 2025. The General Assembly is comprised of plant sector leaders who help define the mission of the Plant ETP and its directions The General Assembly also includes experts, observers and a group of personalities.
Marc Bots, Plant ETP President
Industry
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Marc Bots Head of Crop Efficiency Trait Research |
Bayer CropScience S.A. |
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Garlich von Essen Secretary General |
European Seed Association |
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Alain-Dominique Quintart Head of Government & Public Affairs EAME |
Syngenta |
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Arjen van Tunen CEO |
Keygene N.V. |
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Pierre Broun Head of Nestlé R&D Centre - Tours |
Nestlé Research Centre |
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Wolfgang Kraus Head of R&D Department |
Südzucker |
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Marc Lefèbvre Manager Biotech |
SESVanderHave |
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Aneke Schwager Head of Government Affairs |
KWS SAAT AG |
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Jan Jacobi EU Liaison Officer |
German Federation of Private Plant Breeders |
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Bernard Bejar Director |
Céréales- Vallée, Pôle de Compétitivité |
Agricultural sector
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Emmanuel Rougier Chief Executive Officer |
Groupe Limagrain |
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Pekka Pesonen Secretary General |
COPA- COGECA |
Academia
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Karin Metzlaff Executive Director |
European Plant Science Organisation |
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Ulrich Schurr, Director IBG-2 Plant Sciences |
Forschungszentrum Jülich |
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Mathilde Causse Head Genetics & Breeding of Fruit & Vegetables |
INRA Versailles |
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Simon Vaughan Head of International Programmes |
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden |
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Mark Stitt Director & Research Group Leader |
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology |
Experts
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Yuri Gleba Executive Director, Nomad Bioscience GmbH |
Expert in SME issues |
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Vincent Pétiard Consultant to Nestlé, Nature Source Genetics (NSG) |
Expert in Food sector issues |
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Ralf Wilhelm Institute for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) |
Expert in Regulatory and safety issues |
Observers
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John Bell, Director DG Research and Innovation, Directorate F Bioeconomy |
European Commission |
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Marios Markakis, Research Programme Officer Unit F3: Agri-Food Chain, DG Research and Innovation, Directorate F Bioeconomy |
European Commission |
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Tomaz Calikowski, Research Programme Officer Unit F2: BioBased Products & Processing, DG Research and Innovation, Directorate F Bioeconomy |
European Commission |
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Aldo Longo, Director DG Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate H General Aspects of Rural Development and Research |
European Commission |
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Annette Schneegans, Research Programme Officer Unit H5: Research and Innovation, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate H General Aspects of Rural Development and Research |
European Commission |
Group of personalities
| Dick Flavell | Ceres Inc., former John Innes Centre |
| Mohamed H.A. Hassan | Third World Academy of Sciences |
| Andrzej Legocki | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| Pierre Pagesse | General Confederation of Agricultural Co-operatives in the European Union, COGECA, Limagrain |