Re-Imagine Europa’s Task Force on Sustainable Food Systems and Innovation is composed of a Steering Committee, responsible for the overall management, and an Expert Committee, serving as the main constituent body of the Task Force, bringing together a wide range of expert and stakeholder perspectives. Stakeholder and wider public engagement are crucial to ensure ample consideration of the role that science and innovation can play in tackling these key issues.
STEERING COMMITTEE
- Dr Peter Kearns, Director of RIE’s Task Force on Sustainable Food Systems and Innovation; former Principal Administrator, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Prof. Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Emeritus Research Director in French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
- Prof. Maria da Graça Carvalho, Former Member of the European Parliament
- Prof. Paolo De Castro, Former Member of the European Parliament
- Mr Garlich von Essen, Secretary-General of Euroseeds
- Prof. Dirk Inzé, Emeritus Group Leader, VIB
- Prof. Urs Niggli, President of agroecology.science
- Mr Patrick Pagani, Deputy Secretary General, Copa-Cogeca
- Prof. Pere Puigdomènech, Chair of ALLEA Task Force Intellectual Property Systems for New Genomic Techniques; Institute of Catalan Studies & Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Mr Nils Torvalds, Former Member of the European Parliament
EXPERT COMMITTEE
Prof. Warwick Anderson, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
Dr. Ana Atanassova, Head of Regulatory Policy Seeds & Traits- BASF
Dr. Hidde Boersma, Founding member of wePlanet, Microbiologist & Science Journalist
Prof. Janusz Bujnicki, Head, Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw
Mr Peter Chase, Visiting Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Mr René Custers, Regulatory & Responsible Research manager at VIB
Mr. Harry Dalton, Food Team Leader at Generation Climate Europe (GCE)
Mr Jens Degett, Vice-President, European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations
Mr Philippe de Jong, Partner, ALTIUS
Prof. Joost Dessein, President, European Society for Rural Sociology; Associate Professor, Ghent University
Dr. Alain Deshayes, Member of the Board, Association Française des Biotechnologies Végétales
Dr. Oana Dima, Science Policy Manager, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology; Coordinator, European Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing (EU-SAGE)
Mr Philippe Dumont, Member of the Board, Association Française des Biotechnologies Végétales
Prof. Dennis Eriksson, Associate Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Ms Mella Frewen, Senior Advisor, Penta; Board Member, Foundation Earth; Board Member, RISE Foundation
Dr. Steffi Friedrichs, Director, AcumenIST
Mr Csaba Gaspar, Programme Manager, Forest Seed and Plant Scheme, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Mr Bernd Halling, Head of Policy and Outreach, Re-Imagine Europa
Mr Kris Heirbaut, Farmer and co-owner of Heirbaut aLgriculture
Mr Dirk Hudig, Senior Advisor, European Regulation & Innovation Forum
Prof. Peter Jackson, Co-Director, University of Sheffield Institute for Sustainable Food
Dr. Petra Jorasch, Manager Plant Breeding and Innovation Advocacy, EuroSeeds
Dr. Marcel Kuntz, Research Director, Laboratory of Plant and Cell Physiology, French National Centre for Scientific Research
Dr. Martin Lema, Adjunct Professor in Biotechnology, Quilmes National University
Dr. Paul Leonard, Director, EU Government Affairs, BASF Agricultural Solutions
Mr Norbert Lins MEP, Vice-Chair, Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, European Parliament
Prof. Ewa Łojkowska, Head of Department of Plant Protection and Biotechnology, University of Gdansk
Mr Michele Lucherini, Attorney of Law and founding member of L&P Legal
Mr Mark Lynas, author and journalist
Prof. Michaël Matlosz, President, EuroScience
Prof. Monika Messmer, Group lead, Plant Breeding, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Dr. Amrit Nanda, Executive Manager, Plants for the Future ETP
Dr. Marcin Napiórkowski, Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw
Prof. Andrzej Nowak, Chief Narrative Scientist, Re-Imagine Europa; Professor of Psychology, University of Warsaw & Florida Atlantic University
Mr Antoine Oger, Research Director & Head of programme, Global Challenges and SDGs, European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
Prof. Mario Enrico Pè, Affiliate Professor, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Mr Marco Perduca, Founder & Board Member, Science for Democracy
Ms Annick Pleysier, Head of EMEA Public Affairs, Science and Sustainability at Bayer Crop Science
Prof. Kai Purnhagen, Director, Centre for German & European Food Law, University of Bayreuth
Dr. Karel Říha, Deputy Director for Research, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University
Dr. Claire Skentelbery, Director General, EuropaBio
Ms Erika Staël von Holstein, Chief Executive Officer, Re-Imagine Europa
Prof. Joyce Tait, Co-Director, Innogen Institute, University of Edinburgh
Mr Paul M. Temple, Farmer and Board Member of the Global Farmer Network
Ms Irène Tolleret, Former Member of the European Parliament
Prof. Piet van der Meer, Guest Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University
Dr. Wouter Vanhove, Operational Director, Lignaverda
Mr Dirk Vlaemynck, Farmer and co-founder/co-owner of Tomato Masters
Dr. Karen Wagner, Head of International Relations, acatech
Prof. Andreas Weber, Chair, Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University
Prof. Justus Wesseler, Chair, Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University & Research
