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 Robert Horsch
Monsanto Company
Dr. Robert Horsch is Vice President, Product and Technology Cooperation, at Monsanto Company, with responsibility for public-private partnerships to
help smallholder farmers in developing countries gain access to better
agricultural products and technologies. He received his Ph.D. in Genetics
at the University of California, Riverside, in 1979, and then conducted
postdoctoral work in plant physiology at the University of Saskatchewan. In
1981 he joined Monsanto Company and led the company's plant tissue culture
and transformation efforts until 1995. In 1996 he became Vice President
and General Manager of the Agracetus Campus of Monsanto Company's
Agricultural Sector in Middleton, Wisconsin, serving in that capacity until
the end of 1999. Dr. Horsch has served on the editorial boards of several
leading journals in the plant sciences and also as an advisor to the
National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. He has published
more than 50 articles on plant biology and plant biotechnology and is a
frequent speaker on these subjects, including Congresssional testimony. In
1999 he was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Clinton
for contributions to the development of agricultural biotechnology. He is
currently a member of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee and the United
Nations Millennium Goal Task Force on Hunger.
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