José Sarukhán, Chair

Ecology Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Mexico

David A. Andow

University of Minnesota

United States

Mindahi Bastida-Muñoz

Consejo Mexicano para el Desarrollo Sustentable and member of the CEC Joint Public Advisory Committee

Mexico

Andrew Baum

SemBioSys Genetics Inc.

Canada

Susan Bragdon

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

United States

Conrad G. Brunk

University of Victoria

Canada

Don S. Doering

Winrock International

United States

Norman Ellstrand

University of California at Riverside

United States

Amanda Gálvez Mariscal

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Mexico

Luis Herrera-Estrella

Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Mexico

Julian Kinderlerer

University of Sheffield

England

Lilia Pérez Santiago

Union of Zapotec-Chinantec Forestry Production Communities

Mexico

Peter Phillips

University of Saskatchewan

Canada

Peter H. Raven

Missouri Botanical Gardens

United States

Allison A. Snow

Ohio State University

United States

José Luis Solleiro Rebolledo

AgroBIO México, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Mexico

CHAIR

José Sarukhán
Ecology Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico

José Sarukhán is a full professor at the Instituto de Ecologiá at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-UNAM), and the national coordinator of the Mexican National Committee on the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity (Conabio). The former director of the Biology Institute at UNAM served as rector of the university from 1989 to 1997. He is a past president of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1982-1984) and the Latin American Union of Universities (1992-1995), and also chaired the Paris-based International Programme of Biodiversity Science (DIVERSITAS). He was appointed Commissioner of Social and Human Development in 2000 by the President of Mexico-a distinguished responsibility that ended in January 2002. Dr. Sarukhán has published more than 110 research papers and several books, many of which focus on plant population ecology. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology since 1998. He holds a PhD in ecology from the University of Wales, Great Britain.

David A. Andow
University of Minnesota

David A. Andow is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Department of Entomology. He has written extensively on pest control in corn crops, and served on the Science Advisory Panel of the Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Andow holds a PhD in ecology from Cornell University.

Mindahi Bastida-Muñoz is chairman of the Mexican Council for Sustainable Development (COMEDES, AC) and coordinator of the Regional Otome Council of Alto Lerma. He is a doctoral candidate in social sciences at El Colegio Mexiquense and holds a postgraduate degree in political science from Carleton University. The author of Trade Rules and Sustainability in the Americas (1999), Mr. Bastida-Muñoz has also written extensively on relations between the state and indigenous peoples, intercultural education, intellectual property rights to indigenous peoples' traditional knowledge of biodiversity, and other issues. He is the editor of Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean (2001), a publication of the United Nations Environment Programme and others. In 2002, he was named to the Mexican National Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development and joined the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the CEC.

Andrew Baum
SemBioSys Genetics Inc.

Andrew Baum is the president and chief executive officer of SemBioSys and the former director of business development for the Monsanto Company's Sustainable Development Sector. Previously, Mr. Baum spent 16 years at Calgene Inc., a pioneering agricultural biotechnology firm. He started as the company's first employee and rose to the position of president of Calgene's Oils Division, where he developed and implemented all aspects of the company's genetically engineered oils business-one of the first anywhere focused on using genetic engineering to develop output traits. He is currently a chairman of the board of BioAlberta, and a board member of both BIOTECanada and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Mr. Baum received a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California at Berkeley.

Susan H. Bragdon is a senior scientist at the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. She has worked on legal and policy issues related to plant genetic resources, the use and management of biological diversity, and food security. She began her career studying wolves and foxes before turning to law as a means of promoting change on global environment and development issues. Ms. Bragdon worked for the Secretariat for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Convention on Biological Diversity, providing legal advice on intellectual property rights, and the transfer of technology-including biotechnology and access to genetic resources. When the treaty was concluded, she joined the Secretariat as its legal advisor. Ms. Bragdon also served as the senior legal officer for the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste. She holds a master's degree in resource ecology from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Conrad G. Brunk
University of Victoria

Conrad Brunk is a professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. From 1976 to 2002 he was professor of philosophy at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, where he also served as academic dean. His areas of research and teaching include environmental and health risk management, environmental ethics, professional ethics, conflict resolution and philosophy of law. He is co-author of Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment (1991), and a regular consultant to the Canadian government and international organizations on agricultural risk management and biotechnology. Dr. Brunk is also a member of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, and he has served as co-chair of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on the Future of Food Biotechnology as well as the chair of the RSC Standing Expert Panel on Animal Research. He is a founding member of the International Forum for TSE and Food Safety, and holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University.

Don S. Doering
Winrock International

Don S. Doering is a senior associate at the Winrock International. He works on corporate strategy and public policy relating to genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture, and is the principal author of Tomorrow's Markets: Global Trends and Their Implications for Business (2002). Dr. Doering has experience in biotechnology and business in venture capital, strategic and technical consulting, entrepreneurship, and strategy studies. He holds a PhD in molecular biology from M.I.T., was an associate at Calvert Social Venture Partners, founding vice president of AquaPharm Technologies Corporation, and a senior fellow at the Wharton School of Business. Dr. Doering serves on the advisory boards of the Biotechnology Advisory Council of Monsanto, the Institute for Forest Biotechnology, and the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

Norman Ellstrand
University of California at Riverside

Norman C. Ellstrand is a professor of genetics at the University of California Riverside (UCR), and one of North America's foremost experts on gene flow in plants. His current research concerns the movement of crop genes into populations for which they are not intended and the consequences of that movement. He has written over 100 papers, researched in Sweden under a Fullbright Fellowship, contributed to a variety of workshops, and helped create his campus' Center for Conservation Biology. He has also participated in a number of activities of the National Research Council, including a study of environmental impacts associated with the commercialization of transgenic plants.

Amanda Gálvez Mariscal
National Autonomous University of Mexico

Amanda Gálvez Mariscal is a professor of biotechnology and food chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She received her master's degree in food science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has been a titular professor for more than 18 years. Her principle research areas are the modification and application of functional proteins, and the molecular detection of transgenic sequences in corn products. Professor Gálvez was a member of Biosafety Advisory Board of the Intersecretarial Commission for Biosafety and Genetically Modified Foods (Comisión Intersecretarial de Bioseguridad y Alimentos Genéticamente Modificados), and an advisor to the National Commission for Biodiversity Use and Awareness (Comisión Nacional para el Uso y Conocimiento de la Biodiversidad-Conabio) and to Mexico's Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales-Semarnat). Since 1995, she has also been a member of the Mexican delegation of the International Biosafety Protocol.

Luis Herrera-Estrella
Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Luis Herrera-Estrella is an accomplished researcher and leader in the field of plant molecular biology. While still working as a PhD student, he published the first report on the genetic manipulation of plant cells. He also pioneered the development of dominant selectable markers and the use of reporter genes for plant systems, which later became the two most important tools to develop gene transfer systems for economically important crops. His current research is now primarily focused to the development transgenic plants better adapted to marginal soils. Dr. Herrera-Estrella graduated with a B.Sc. degree in biochemical engineering from the Mexican National Polytechnic Institute and received a PhD from the State University in Ghent, Belgium. He has been awarded several national and international prizes, among them the award in biology from the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Minuro and Ethel Tsutsui Research Award of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Javed Husain prize from UNESCO.

Julian Kinderlerer
University of Sheffield

Julian Kinderlerer is the assistant director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics at the University of Sheffield in Great Britain. He has contributed to the drafting of legislation or guidelines for the use of biotechnology products in many countries, including Russia, Mexico, South Africa and Brazil. As the special advisor to a House of Lords investigation into modern biotechnology in 1998, he helped craft a major report on how European legislation should be handled in relation to genetically modified organisms. He has advised the United Nations Industrial Development Organization on a 'decision tree' approach to assessing the risk of transgenic plants in the environment, and was seconded to work in Nairobi for the United Nations Environment Programme. He is a member of the Commission on Environmental Law and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Lilia Pérez Santiago
Union of Zapotec-Chinantec Forestry Production Communities

Since 1995, Lilia Pérez Santiago has worked as an agronomy engineer at the Union of Zapotec-Chinantec Forestry Production Communities in Sierra Juárez de R.I. There, she has conducted research projects regarding the use and conservation of microscopic and macroscopic fungi to provide alternative food sources and revenues to local communities. Ms. Santiago has also conducted DNA research on hybrid corn (maize), and offered training workshops for the production of edible fungi in the Oaxaca region. In 2002, she undertook research to establish a management plan for the use and conservation of four fungus species: Tricholoma magnivelare, Amanita cæsareæ, Boletus edulis and Cantharellus cibarius. Ms. Santiago has advised several biology graduate degree candidates throughout her career.

Peter Phillips
University of Saskatchewan

Peter W. B. Phillips is a professor of agricultural economics and professional associate in management and marketing at the University of Saskatchewan. As the NSERC/SSHRC chair in Managing Knowledge-basíd Agri-food Development, he has researched issues related to intellectual property rights for agricultural biotechnology and trade and marketing issues related to genetically modified (GM) foods. Dr. Phillips is the director of the university's College of Biotechnology; a member of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee (CBAC); co-chair of the CBAC review of the regulation of GM foods; a senior research associate with the Estey Centre for Trade, Law and Economics; and co-principle investigator for Genome Prairie's $3.3 million, four-year Genomics, Ethics, Law and Society Project.

Peter H. Raven
Missouri Botanical Gardens

Peter H. Raven is the director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, a world-class center for botanical research, education and horticulture display. Dr. Raven is himself a renowned botanist and recipient of the National Medal of Science-the highest award for scientific accomplishment in the United States. He is the chairman of the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration and chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A former member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, he is also a member of the academies of science in Argentina, China, India, Italy, Russia, the UK, and several other countries. Described by Time magazine as a "Hero for the Planet," Dr. Raven has written numerous books and publications, including Environment (1997) and Biology of Plants (1998), now in its sixth edition. He holds a PhD from the University of California.

Allison A. Snow
Ohio State University

Allison A. Snow is a professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology at Ohio State University. Trained as a plant ecologist at the University of Massachusetts (PhD, 1982), she received two postdoctoral fellowships before joining the faculty of Ohio State in 1988. Her research has combined molecular and ecological approaches to understand how quickly crop genes move into wild and weedy populations, and the ecological effects of this process. She has collaborated with international scholars on questions related to gene flow and risk assessment, and was recognized as a visionary in the field of agriculture with the first annual Scientific American 50 Award in 2002. Dr. Snow currently serves on advisory panels for the US National Academy of Sciences and many other organizations.

José Luis Solleiro Rebolledo
AgroBIO México

José Luis Solleiro is the technical director of AgroBIO México México, an association of a private sector agricultural biotechnology companies in Mexico. A researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), he is also the founder of the UNAM Center for Technological Innovation. His research has resulted in more than 100 published works, including articles and book chapters. Dr. Solleiro has advised businesses and organizations alike in several areas relating to innovation management. He currently coordinates the CamBioTec project, a multinational network of businesses cooperating to transfer food and environmental biotechnologies. He is a past recipient of the Jesús Silva Herzog Award for Economic Research and of UNAM's University Distinction for Young Academics. He is a Level II National Researcher.