Knowledge Based Bio-Economy towards 2020
Turning Challenges into Opportunities
Director General - Central Food Research Institute (CFRI), Budapest, Hungary
Chair - European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Director Programme Biobased Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
Professor, Chair of Biochemistry – CNAP University of York
CEO - CropDesign, Gent, Belgium
Chairman - FlandersBio
Managing director - nova Institut
Chief Scientific Adviser to the Irish Government
Professor of Animal Genetics in Trinity College, Dublin
Head of Unit, DG Entr, EC
Program manager - Center for Industrial Research and Service, Iowa State University, BioPreferred
CEO - Festel Capital
Former European Commissioner
Director General - CIAA, Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EU
European Commissioner for research, innovation and science
President - European Plant Science Organization
CEO - INRA, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Director Policies, Regulations & Feedstocks - Stora Enso Biorefining & Bioenergy
President - DuPont Europe, Middle East & Africa
President - DuPont de Nemours International SA. Geneva
Program Manager, International Industrial Biotechnology Network - UN Industrial Development Organization/University Gent
Flemish Minister for Innovation, Public Investment, Media, and Poverty Reductio
MEP – European Parliament
MEP – European Parlaiment
Managing director - PharmaMar
Chief Scientific Officer - Danisco A/S
Member of the Research and Technology Council “BioEconomy“ of the German Federal Government
Minister-President of the Flemish Government
Finnish member of the European Parliament - European Parliament
Commissioner for Environment, European Commission
President and CEO - Novozymes A/S
CIAA
Program Director - ROQUETTE FRERES
President of the Vegetal Based Association
Director, DG Research, Directorate Biotechnology, Agriculture and Food, EC
Mrs. SALAS BENITEZ MARIA ANGELES
Director, DG Agri, EC
University of Bologna - Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Director-General of DG Research, European Commission
Director - Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
Deputy Director-General Research, EC
Member of the Managing Board of Directors - Royal DSM
COPACogeca
Professor of Genetics at the University of Milan, Italy
Leader of the Plant Molecular Genetic Group of the Department of Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology at Milan
Secretary-General, Flemish Government – Department Economy, Science and Innovation
Director - German Institute of Food Technologies
Director - Wageningen UR Livestock Research
President of the Animal Task Force
