IPCMembers
IPC's members represent a geographically diverse set of leaders and experts in agricultural trade policy.
Bernard Auxenfans
(France)
Managing Director
Kincannon & Reed
IPC Member since 1993.
Bernard Auxenfans is an experienced and successful chief executive in agribusiness who joined Kincannon & Reed as its Managing Director for Europe in 2002. He began his career at Monsanto in 1969 as a sales representative in France. Auxenfans then transfered to the USA and was promoted as the company's International Herbicide Marketing Manager. In 1978, he became its General Manager for Brazil; he then lead the whole Latin America Region in 1981. He was named Vice President and General Manager of Monsanto's Global Agricultural Operations Division in October 1990 and was later appointed President of Monsanto Europe-Africa (Mesa) in May 1997. Named as the Chief Operating Officer of the Agriculture Business worldwide in 1998, he became Chairman of Monsanto-Europe in 1999. After leaving Monsanto in 2000, he became CEO of FOLNetworks, the United Kingdom's number one Internet Portal company in agriculture, which now operates as FarmingOnline.
Malcolm Bailey
(New Zealand)
Dairy Farmer and Member of the Board
Fonterra Coopertive Group, Ltd.
IPC Member since 2004.
Malcolm Bailey is currently a dairy farmer and Member of the Board of Fonterra Cooperative Group, Ltd. Bailey is a former National President of Federated Farmers, a former Fonterra Shareholder Counselor, and has been a Special Agricultural Trade Envoy for the New Zealand Government. He is presently an External Monetary Policy Adviser to the Reserve Bank. Bailey has nine years experience as a member of the Technology NZ Reference Group analyzing research and development projects and has served on the Animal Remedies and Pesticides Boards, as well as a director of Embryo Technologies Ltd. since 1993.
Devry Boughner
(United States)
Director, International Business Relations
Cargill, Inc.
IPC Member since 2008.
Joachim von Braun
(Germany)
Director General
International Food Policy Research Institute
IPC Member since 2007.
Joachim von Braun has been director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) since 2002. He guides and oversees the Institute's efforts to provide research-based sustainable solutions for ending hunger and malnutrition. Under his leadership, IFPRI has continued to grow, and has significantly expanded its teams based in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in response to research challenges and partners' needs.
Before coming to IFPRI, von Braun was director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and professor of Economics and Technological Change at the University of Bonn. He was also professor of Food Economics and Policy at Kiel University, Germany. He received his doctoral degree in agricultural economics from the University of Goettingen, Germany in 1978.
IFPRI is a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Within the CGIAR, von Braun has helped to organize the creation of a Global Food and Agriculture University, and chairs a platform on agriculture and health and one that liaises with the private sector.
von Braun serves on the boards of several academic journals, as well as on the international advisory boards of a number of research and policy organizations. From 2000 to 2003 he was president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). He has published research on international development economics topics, including science and technology; on policy issues relating to trade and aid, famine, health, and nutrition; and on a wide range of agricultural economics research issues. von Braun has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, Egypt, Russia, and China.
 Jason Clay
(United States)
Senior Vice President
World Wildlife Fund
IPC Member since 2008.
Dr. Jason Clay is Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Markets, World Wildlife Fund. He leads WWF-US’ work on forests, fisheries, agriculture, aquaculture, and finance. He is lead in the WWF Network on aquaculture and agriculture, as well as supply chain management. Clay studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics before receiving his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1979 in anthropology and international agriculture. Over the course of his career he has worked on a family farm, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and spent more than twenty-five years working with human rights and environmental organizations. In 1988, Clay invented Rainforest Marketing, one of the first fair-trade ecolabels in the United States and was responsible for co-creating Rainforest Crunch and more than 200 other products with combined sales of $100 million.
From 1999-2003, Clay co-directed a consortium with WWF, World Bank, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and National Aquaculture Centres of Asia/Pacific to identify and analyze better management practices that address the most significant environmental and social impacts of shrimp aquaculture. Since then he has co-convened (with the IFC and others) multi-stakeholder roundtables of investors, buyers, producers, researchers and NGOs to identify and reduce the social and environmental impacts of such products as salmon, soy, sugarcane, cotton, and palm oil. Clay leads WWF’s efforts to work with private sector companies to improve their supply chain management, particularly with regard to ingredient sourcing and carbon and water neutrality, and with industries to transform entire sectors by improving their overall performance.
Clay is the author of 15 books, more than 250 articles and 500 invited presentations. His most recent books are World Aquaculture and the Environment (in press, 2009), Exploring the Links between International Business and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Unilever in Indonesia (2005) and World Agriculture and the Environment (2004).
Csába Csáki
(Hungary)
Member, Monetary Board
Hungarian National Bank
IPC Member since 1992.
Csába Csáki is currently a member of the Monetary Board of the Hungarian National Bank. He is formerly the Senior Advisor of Strategy and Policy for the Rural Development Division of the World Bank. Csáki was Past Senior Agricultural Adviser for the Europe and Central Division of Agriculture Industry and Finance of the World Bank. He is also former Professor at Budapest University of Economic Sciences. Csáki is former Rector at Budapest University and former Task Leader of the Food and Agriculture Project for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, located in Laxenburg, Austria.
H.S. Dillon
(Indonesia)
Chair, Center for Agriculture Policy Studies and
Former Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture
IPC Member since 2003.
H.S. Dillon is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Agricultural Policy Studies for Governance Reform in Indonesia. Dillon originally joined the government as the Secretary of Rural Dynamics Study Agro-Economic Survey under the Ministry of Agriculture in 1974. Dillon later became the Director of the Commodity Analysis Division in the Ministry of Agriculture from 1985 to 1990. He became the Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture for Commodity Trade and Development in 1990. He has served as commissioner for the National Commission on Human Rights and has been a member of the Council for the National Economy and the Joint [Anticorruption] Investigation Team. Dillon is a strong advocate for agriculture and agriculture-based industrialization in Indonesia.
Cal Dooley
(United States)
President and CEO, Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and
Former Member, United States House of Representatives
IPC Member since 2003.
Cal Dooley is currently the President and CEO of the Food Products Association (FPA), formerly known as the National Food Processors Association, the largest trade association serving the food and beverage industry in the United States and worldwide. The FPA represents the food industry on scientific and public policy issues involving food safety, food security, nutrition, consumer affairs, and international trade. Prior to being named the FPA's President and CEO, Dooley served as a Member of the US House of Representatives from 1991 to 2004, representing the 20th District of California. He served on the House Agriculture Committee as well as the House Resources Committee. Congressional Quarterly named Dooley one of the House's most influential "Power Players," in recognition of the breadth and effectiveness of his leadership in Congress.
Franz Fischler
(Austria)
Former Commissioner for Agriculture
European Union
IPC Member since 2003.
Franz Fischler was Austria's European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Fisheries from 1995-2004. He originally worked as a University Assistant at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna, where he previously studied. Fischler then worked for the Tyrol Chamber of Agriculture and became the Director in 1985, a position he held until 1989. Between 1989 and 1994, Fischler was the Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry and was elected as Member of the National Parliament in 1990.
Michael Gifford
(Canada)
Former Chief Agricultural Trade Negotiator, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
IPC Member since 2003.
Michael Gifford served as Canada's chief agricultural trade negotiator and principal agricultural trade policy advisor to the ministers of agriculture and trade. He served as the Chairman of the GATT International Meat Council (1980) and acted as the Chief Canadian Agricultural Negotiator in the Canada/US Free Trade Agreement (1986-87), the North American Free Trade Agreement (1990-91), and the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations (1986-1993).
Timothy Groser
(New Zealand)
Former Ambassador of New Zealand to the World Trade Organization and former Chair of World Trade Organization Agricultural Negotiations
IPC Member since 2006.
Tim Groser is currently a Member of the New Zealand Parliament, to which he was elected in 2005. He is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on international trade and, until recently, was New Zealand's Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Chair of Agricultural Negotiations for the WTO. He has served New Zealand with distinction in a number of capacities, including being New Zealand's Chief Negotiator in the GATT Uruguay Round, the Round that brought agriculture into the system of world trade rules for the first time and conferred substantial benefits on the New Zealand economy. Groser has previously served as a policy adviser in a number of key departments of the New Zealand government, including Treasury, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Prime Minister's Advisory Group.
Jikun Huang
(People's Republic of China)
Director, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy
Chinese Academy of Sciences
IPC Member since 2002.
Jikun Huang is founder and director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Huang's research and publications cover a wide range of issues relating to China's agricultural and rural economy. He has received a number of awards and prizes from China's government including: the Prizes for Young Scientists of China; Top Ten Outstanding Youths (Scientists) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Distinguished Scientist Award from the Ministry of Agriculture and Outstanding Youths in National Government Organization. Huang has also received Outstanding Scientific Progress Awards from the Ministry of Agriculture on four occasions.
Sarah Hull
(Switzerland)
Head, Global Public and Government Affairs
Syngenta
Crop Protection AG
IPC Member since 2008.
 Nicolas Imboden
(Switzerland)
CEO
IDEAS Centre
IPC Member since 2007.
Nicolas Imboden, a Swiss national, graduated in law at the University of Geneva, holds a degree in development studies of the then African Development Institute; a M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston and was an AMP student at Harvard. He is partner and cofounder of IDEAS Centre. Previous he was Senior Vice President with SGS (1999- 2002), a Swiss Government trade and aid official with the rank of an ambassador (1992- 1999), Governor of the regional development banks (ADB, AFDB, IDB) and Executive Director at the EBRD (1992). He was the Swiss negotiator for market access and agriculture during the Uruguay Round negotiations (1987- 1992). He also worked in the World Bank as an agricultural economist (1978- 19982), OECD (1974-1978 as researcher on aid monitoring) and UNDP (1972- 1974 as Program Officer in Chad). He was member of the Board of the Foundation of the "Institut Universitaire d'Etudes de Développement" (Geneva) and of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Canada. He has been a member of various Expert Groups of the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and of the UNDP Human Development Report.
Timothy Josling
(United Kingdom)
Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Institute for International Studies
Stanford University
IPC Member since 1997.
Timothy Josling is Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, and a Professor Emeritus at Stanford's Food Research Institute. He also holds a post as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. Josling's work focuses on agricultural trade and food policy issues, as well as economic integration, with a special emphasis on the World Trade Organization, bilateral and regional trade agreements, the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, and US-EU trade relations. Before taking his current positions at Stanford University, he has held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.
Rolf Moehler
(Germany)
Former Deputy Director General
European Commission
IPC Member since 1997.
Dr. Rolf Moehler has served as an official at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn. From 1965 to 1974, he was first counselor at the German Permanent Representation to the European Community in Brussels. From 1970, Moehler served at the German Mission to GATT and to the UN in Geneva. In 1975, he became chef-de-cabinet to European Commissioner Guido Brunner, who held responsibility for European policy on research and energy. From 1978 to 1980, he was head of division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn with responsibility for international economic relations, including the G-7 meetings. In 1981, he was appointed director at the Directorate-general for Internal Market and Industrial Affairs of the European Commission, with responsibility for trade policy, the single market, and industrial policy. In 1986, he became deputy director-general at the Directorate-general for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission with responsibility for international relations. He served as chief agricultural negotiator of the European Community in the Uruguay Trade Negotiations. He retired from the Commission in 1996.
Joe O'Mara
(United States)
President, O'Mara & Associates and
Former Special Agricultural Trade Negotiator
IPC Member since 1997.
Joe O'Mara is currently the President of O'Mara & Associates, an international trade-consulting firm. O'Mara also serves on the United States Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade. Previously, as Counsel for International Affairs to the US Secretary of Agriculture and as Special Trade Negotiator, O'Mara served as the US Department of Agriculture's senior policy officer on international trade and policy matters. As Special Trade Negotiator, he was responsible for the negotiation of the agriculture provisions of the Uruguay Round WTO negotiations.
 J.B. Penn
(United States)
Chief Economist
John Deere & Company
IPC Member since 2007.
J. B. Penn is Chief Economist for John Deere & Co. Before joining the company in August 2006, he served as Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services in the United States Department of Agriculture for more than five years.
Penn is a native of Arkansas and holds an undergraduate degree from Arkansas State University, M. S. from Louisiana State University and a Ph. D. from Purdue University. He began his career with USDA where he held several increasingly responsible positions including Deputy Administrator for Economics in the Economics and Statistics Service. He also served as Senior Staff Economist in the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Following his work in the federal government, Dr. Penn moved to the private sector for more than two decades. He was a founding principal and president of Economic Perspectives, Inc., a firm of economic and food consultants that was acquired by Sparks Companies, Inc., a larger firm in the same field where he served as Senior Vice President and head of the Washington office from 1988 until 2001.
Penn is a member of the Farm Foundation Board of Trustees, the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, the United States Trade Representative’s Africa Trade Advisory Committee and a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.
Carlos Perez del Castillo
(Uruguay)
Former Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the World Trade Organization
IPC Member since 2006.
Carlos Perez del Castillo is currently an independent international consultant involved in various assignments with governments, private sector, and international organizations. He is the Chairman of the WTO Panel established to examine the dispute over large civil aircrafts between the US and EC (Boeing-Airbus). He is also a Member of the Core Team assigned to with the Independent External Evaluation of FAO. From March 2004 until October 2005, he was the Special Advisor on International Trade Negotiations to the President of the Republic of Uruguay. Mr. Perez del Castillo has had a long and distinguished career in public and international service that has spanned over 35 years. Until recently, he acted as the Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations, the WTO, and other International Organizations in Geneva.
Michel Petit
(France)
Professor, Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen, Montpellier and
Former Director, Rural Development, World Bank
IPC Member since 1998.
Michel Petit has been a professor of agricultural economics in various French higher education institutions since 1968. He served as World Bank Director between 1988 and 1998, first for the Agriculture and Rural Development Department and then as founder of the Agricultural Research & Extension Group. In the 1970s he was for two years Program Adviser for Agriculture at the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India. Petit co-founded the European Review of Agricultural Economics where he served as co-editor and as President. He has also served as President of the International Association of Agricultural Economics and is a Member of the Académie d'Agriculture in France. Petit is currently a Professor at the Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen in Montpellier.
Lord Henry Plumb
(United Kingdom)
Former President, European Parliament and
Former President, National Farmers Union
IPC Member since 1987.
Lord Henry Plumb, knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, founded IPC in 1987. Lord Plumb was first elected to the European Parliament, representing the Cotswold's constituency, in 1979 and was re-elected in 1984, 1989, and 1994. In the European Parliament, from 1979-1982, Lord Plumb was the Chairman of Committee of Agriculture and was then the Chairman of the European Democratic Group from 1982-1987. Lord Plumb is most recognized as holding presidency of the European Parliament from 1987-1989, the first and only Briton to have held this high office position. As President of the EP, Lord Plumb initiated the World Food Conference in April 1988, held in Iowa, USA. After his term as the EP's President, Lord Plumb continued to be involved, and hold a seat, in the European Parliament until 1999.
Before his career in politics, Lord Plumb was the President of the National Farmers' Union (NFU) of England and Wales. Currently, Lord Plumb involves himself in many charitable organizations, such as the Sargent Cancer Care for Children and the Cotswold's AONB Partnership.
Jiro Shiwaku
(Japan)
President, Japan Meat Technology Institute (JAMTI) and
Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries.
IPC Member since 1998.
Jiro Shiwaku is currently the President of the Japan Meat Technology Institute (JAMTI). Previously, he served as President of the Agricultural and Livestock Industry Promotion Corporation as well as President of the Agriculture & Fishery Cooperative Savings Insurance Corp. Shiwaku also served as the Vice Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries.
James Starkey
(United States)
Former Vice President, Universal Corporation and
Former Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, US Department of Agriculture
IPC Member since 1997.
James Starkey is formerly the Vice President of the Universal Corporation and the Senior Vice President of the Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, one of the world's leading leaf tobacco merchants and processors. Mr. Starkey is also the Chairman of the Board of the Tobacco Merchants Association and a former Member of the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations (APAC). Involved in the US Government, Mr. Starkey served as the Acting Under Secretary and Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs & Commodity Programs for the US Department of Agriculture, as well as the Assistant US Trade Representative for the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Jerry Steiner
(United States)
Executive Vice President
Monsanto Company
IPC Member since 2003.
Jerry Steiner is the Executive Vice President of Commercial Acceptance for the Monsanto Company, a corporation that is a leading provider of agricultural products and solutions through the use of unparalleled innovation in plant biotechnology, genomics, and breeding to improve productivity and to reduce the costs of farming. Steiner's responsibility is to lead global corporate Government, Public, and Industry Affairs, as well as develop business with downstream partners in the grain and food industry. Steiner has worked for Monsanto for more than 20 years and been involved in biotechnology issues for more than eight years. From 1996-1998, Steiner led the Global Product Strategy group. He lived in Brussels for two years, serving as the General Manager of Monsanto's Agricultural European and African business. In 2000, Steiner left Monsanto to join Celera Genomics in Rockville, Maryland, to build and operate the ag- and pharma-genomic services business unit. In June of 2001, he rejoined Monsanto as Vice President, Corporate Strategy.
Robert L. Thompson
(United States)
Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and
Former Director, Rural Development, World Bank
IPC Member since 1987.
Bob Thompson holds the Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He previously served as Director of Rural Development at the World Bank. From 1993-1998, he was President and CEO of the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development. Before that he was Dean of Agriculture at Purdue University from 1987-1993, Assistant Secretary for Economics at the US Department of Agriculture from 1985-1987, and Senior Staff Economist for Food and Agriculture on the Council of Economic Advisors. Thompson, as a founding member of the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC), served as its chairman from 2000-2006. He is Past President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.
Ann Tutwiler
(United States)
Managing Director for Trade and Development
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
IPC Member since 2006.
Ann Tutwiler joined the Hewlett Foundation in January 2006, after serving for four years as president and chief executive officer of the International Food & Agriculture Trade Policy Council, an organization that she co-founded in 1987. She served as Associate Director of the Council from its inception until 1992. Between 1992 and 2002, she was Director of Government Relations for the North American oilseed crushing and corn refining companies of Eridania Beghin-Say, the French food producer. Previously, Ms. Tutwiler was a policy associate at the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy and a policy analyst and Presidential Management Intern at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Ms. Tutwiler received a BA from Davidson College and a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She recently received the John W. Kuykendall Alumni Service Award from Davidson College for her work in agricultural trade and development.
Ajay Vashee
(Zambia)
President
Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions
IPC Member since 2003.
Ajay Vashee is a top African farm leader, currently serving as the President of the Zambian National Farmers Union (ZNFU). Vashee was instrumental in the foundation in 1992 of the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU), a loose federation of farmers' organizations in Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Namibia, for which he serves as the President as well. He was a member of Zambia's delegation to the WTO Ministerial Meetings in Seattle and Cancún and works closely with the International Trade Department on regional, bilateral, and multilateral trade negotiations, in particular the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Southern African Development Conference (SADC), the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union. He represents ZNFU and SACAU in several international organizations, including as a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP).
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