Nigel Edwards
Marc Cooper
Alireza Ehsani
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths has been with the British Poultry Council for over fourteen years, first as Policy Director and latterly as Chief Executive. In that time, he has covered welfare, campylobacter, antibiotics, meat inspection, avian influenza, and is responsible for raising the profile of the UK poultry meat sector. Leaving the EU has introduced new challenges in the form of the cost of trade and access to labour.
Richard has a background in mining engineering and began his working life with British Coal in underground mines, and then spent eight years with the Quarry Products Association before moving to the poultry sector.
Patrick Holden
Patrick Holden is the founder and chief executive of the Sustainable Food Trust. Prior to this he was director of the Soil Association (until 2010). His farming experience spans nearly 50 years - Holden Farm Dairy, now the longest established organic dairy farm in West Wales, where he produces Hafod cheese from the milk of his 80 Ayrshire cows.
Katinka de Balogh
Katinka de Balogh graduate as veterinarian from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany and holds a doctorate in tropical parasitology and specializations in tropical animal production and health and veterinary public health. She worked as District Veterinary Officer in rural Zambia and held positions at the WHO and at veterinary faculties in Zambia, Mozambique and the Netherlands. Since 2002, she works for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and presently at the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific as Senior Animal Health and Production Officer, secretary of the FAO Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific and focal point for antimicrobial resistance and FAO/OIE/WHO Tripartite collaboration in the region.
Ian McConnel
Mauricio Umana
Floris Engelhardt
