ECPA
The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) represents the interests of the crop protection industry at a European level. Its members include all major companies, SMEs and national associations across Europe. For more information: www.ecpa.eu
REPLAY 2018
video highlights
Interview with Luis Planas, Spanish minister of agriculture, fisheries and food at our 2nd Agriculture and Food Summit
POLITICO Agriculture and Food summit’s panel discussion on the future of agriculture in the context of cuts in the CAP
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2018 SPEAKERS
Faustine Bas-Defossez
Head of Agriculture and Land Management Program, Institute for European Environmental Policy
Faustine Bas-Defossez is Head of the Agriculture and Land Management Program at the Institute for European Environmental Policy, a position she has held since April 2018. Previously, Bas-Defossez spent eight years leading the largest…
Ariel Brunner
Senior Head of Policy, BirdLife Europe and Central Asia
Ariel Brunner is the Senior Head of Policy for BirdLife Europe and Central Asia, a global environmental NGO. He coordinates work on a wide range of EU policies ranging from nature and biodiversity conservation,…
John Clarke
Director for International Relations, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
John Clarke is the Director for International Relations at the DG Agriculture and Agricultural Development in the European Commission. He was previously Head of the EU Delegation to the WTO and the UN in…
Sabine Jülicher
Director for Food and Feed Safety, Innovation, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Dr Sabine Jülicher is Director for food and feed safety, innovation in the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety at the European Commission since 2015. She is responsible for policies related to a…
Christiane Lambert
President, Fédération nationale des syndicats d’exploitants agricoles
Christiane Lambert is the first female president of the Fédération nationale des syndicats d’exploitants agricoles (FNSEA), the National Federation of Farmers’ Union in France, and has almost 40 years of experience as a farm…
Luis Planas
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Spain
Luis Planas is the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the Government of Spain. Previously, Minister Planas was Secretary General of the European Economic and Social Committee from 2014 to 2018. Prior to…
Alberto D’Avino
Deputy Head of Unit, Research and Innovation, Directorate General Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), European Commission
Alberto D'Avino is the Deputy Head of the Research and Innovation Unit in DG Agriculture and Rural Development at the European Commission, a position he has held since January 2017. He contributes to the…
Jérôme Bandry
Secretary General, CEMA European Agricultural Machinery
Jérôme Bandry is the Secretary General of CEMA European Agricultural Machinery, the association representing European agricultural machinery industry. With 10 national member associations, the CEMA network represents more than 4,500 manufacturers, production more than…
Minette Batters
President, National Farmers’ Union of England & Wales (NFU)
Minette Batters is the President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales (NFU). Additionally, Batters runs a tenanted family farm in Wiltshire. The mixed farming business includes a 100 cow continental cross…
Daniel Calleja Crespo
Director-General for Environment, European Commission
Daniel Calleja Crespo has been Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General (DG) for Environment since 2015. He has held many posts within the European Commission, serving as Director General of the DG…
Jim Collins
Chief Operating Officer, Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont
James C. Collins Jr. is the Chief Operating Officer for Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont™. Collins joined DuPont as an engineer in 1984 and began his career in DuPont Manufacturing. He held positions…
Paolo De Castro
Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Paolo De Castro a Member of the European Parliament and First Vice-Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. De Castro is represents the Partito Democratico as part of the Group of the…
Arash Derambarsh
City Councillor, Courbevoie (France)
Arash Derambarsh is a City Councillor for the City of Courbevoie, France, a position he has held since 2014. Additionally, he is a practicing lawyer at the Paris Bar. Derambarsh initiated legislation which became…
Guilhem de Seze
Head of Scientific Evaluation of Regulated Products Department, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Guilhem de Seze joined the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in September 2016 as Head of the Scientific Evaluation of Regulated Products (REPRO) Department, a department providing scientific advice on pre-marketing risk assessment of…
Herbert Dorfmann
Member of the European Parliament, Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Herbert Dorfmann is a Member of the European Parliament, a position he has held since 2009. He represents Euroregion Tirol-South Tyrol-Trentino and the Belluno and Friuli areas, as a member of Südtiroler Volkspartei (South…
Angela Frigo
Secretary General, European Food Banks Federation (FEBA)
Angela Frigo is the Secretary General of the European Food Banks Federation (FEBA), a European non-profit organization which works in collaboration with 24 members and 4 projects in European countries. In her position, Frigo…
Edwini Kessie
Director of the Agriculture and Commodities Division, World Trade Organization (WTO)
Edwini Kessie is the Director of the Agriculture and Commodities Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Previously, he was the Chief Trade Adviser to the Pacific Island Countries and Chief Executive Officer of…
Dr. Andrea Kohl
Acting Director, WWF European Policy Office
Dr. Andrea Kohl is currently acting Director and the main spokesperson and representative for WWF in Brussels. EPO represents the WWF network towards the EU institutions, with the aim of influencing regulatory and policy…
Dr. Klaus Kunz
Head of Sustainability & Business Stewardship, Bayer
Dr. Klaus Kunz is the Head of Sustainability and Business Stewardship at Bayer, a position he has held since 2018. Previously, Kunz was the lead for Regulatory Policy and Compliance from 2016 to 2018.…
Henri Landes
Executive Director, GoodPlanet Foundation
Henri Landes is Executive Director of the GoodPlanet Foundation. He is also a Lecturer on climate policy at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris (SciencesPo). As cofounder of CliMates, a think and do tank…
Alan Matthews
Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Alan Matthews is Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His research interests are in the areas of agricultural policy and international trade policy, including their implications for development and…
Rudolf Moegele
Deputy Director General, Directorate General Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), European Commission
Rudolf Mogele is the Deputy Director-General at the Directorate General Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission in charge of Directorates dealing with "Audit of agricultural expenditure", a position he has held since…
Roberto Moncalvo
President of Coldiretti Piedmont and National Board Member, Coldiretti
Roberto Moncalvo is President of Coldiretti Piedmont and a National Board Member, after being appointed in November 2018. Most recently, Moncalvo was President of Coldiretti, a position he held since 2013. Additionally, he is…
Joao Pacheco
Joao Pacheco, Senior Fellow, Farm Europe
Joao Pacheco is a Senior Fellow at the think-tank Farm Europe. Previously, Pacheco was Deputy-Director General in the Directorate General for Agriculture of the European Commission, in charge of policy management for the European…
Camille Perrin
Senior Food Policy Officer, BEUC (The European Consumer Organization)
Camille Perrin is the Senior Food Policy Officer at BEUC, The European Consumer Organization, where she deals with a variety of issues pertaining to food law, including European legislation on food labeling, food hygiene…
Pekka Pesonen
Secretary General, COPA-COGECA
Pekka Pesonen is the Secretary General of Copa, representing European farmers, and Cogeca, representing European agri-cooperatives since 2006. Together, Copa Cogeca count more than 70 national farming organizations from across Europe. Previously, he served…
Arnold Puech d’Alissac
Bureau Member, Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants Agricoles (FNSEA)
Arnold Puech d’Alissac is a Bureau Member at the Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants Agricoles (FNSEA) in charge of international and European issues, a position he has held since 2014. He has also been…
Max Schulman
Arable Farmer; MTK Finland
Max Schulman grew up on his family’s farm which he took over in 1986. Stor-Tötar Gård, is an old farm that combines arable land and forestry in South Western Finland that has been in…
David Wilkinson
Senior Procurement Director Agriculture, PepsiCo
David Wilkinson is Senior Director of European Agriculture for PepsiCo Europe. PespsiCo is a leading food and beverage company in Europe and one of the largest buyers of potatoes and significant purchasers of corn,…
2018 sponsors
FOUNDING PARTNER
PRESENTING PARTNER
Corteva Agriscience™
About Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont
Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont™ (NYSE: DWDP), is intended to become an independent, publicly traded company when the previously announced spinoff is complete by June 2019. The division combines the strengths of DuPont Pioneer, DuPont Crop Protection and Dow AgroSciences. Corteva Agriscience™ provides growers around the world with the most complete portfolio in the industry — including some of the most recognized brands in agriculture: Pioneer®, Encirca®, the newly launched Brevant™ Seeds, as well as award-winning Crop Protection products — while bringing new products to market through our solid pipeline of active chemistry and technologies. More information can be found at www.corteva.com.
2018 supporting organizations
BIRDLIFE
Stichting BirdLife Europe (also referred to as “BirdLife Europe” or “BirdLife Europe and Central Asia” elsewhere on this website) is the European and Central Asian Division of BirdLife International, and is one of the six regional offices, or secretariats, of BirdLife International, a global Partnership of autonomous, national non-governmental conservation organisations, with a large grassroots membership in 120 countries and territories.
BirdLife International’s mission is to conserve wild birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, by working with people in their communities towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.
Stichting BirdLife Europe has an international team of permanent staff responsible for conservation, science, policy, advocacy, capacity building, fundraising, communications, finance and administration supporting the 48 European and Central Asian BirdLife Partners.
CEMA
CEMA is the association representing the European agricultural machinery industry. With 11 national member associations, the CEMA network represents both large multinational companies as well as the numerous European SMEs active in this sector. CEMA represents more than 4,500 manufacturers, generating an aggregated annual turnover of more than EUR 26 billion. 135,000 people are directly employed in the sector, with a further 125,000 people working in distribution and maintenance.
FONDATION GOODPLANET
An extension of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s artistic work and commitment to the environment, GoodPlanet, a recognized public interest foundation, aims to make ecology a central issue in order to encourage people to take concrete action for the Earth and its inhabitants.
Created in 2005, the GoodPlanet Foundation develops artistic (7 billion Others, HUMAN, etc.) and educational projects to raise awareness among the general public worldwide.
Through its United Carbon Action Programme, the GoodPlanet Foundation has supported 37 solidarity and environmental projects in 18 countries to date, enabling the construction of some 6,000 biogas reservoirs, the installation of 10,000 solar cookers, and the construction of 7 bioclimatic schools. Altogether, these projects have benefited over 120,000 people.
The Foundation also supports companies in their CSR strategy, and more particularly in their initiatives to measure, reduce and offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2015, the GoodPlanet Foundation launched the programme “The solution is on the plate!” which promotes 60 solutions and 100 concrete initiatives for responsible food consumption, taking into account pleasure, public health, and climate protection.
In July 2015, Paris City Council entrusted the Domaine de Longchamp to the Foundation for a 30-year period.
The first site dedicated to ecology and humanism in Paris, inaugurated in May 2017, free and open to all, the Fondation GoodPlanet – Domaine de Longchamp promotes the values of generosity and sharing. With its proactive and participatory programme, the Fondation GoodPlanet – Domaine de Longchamp welcomes and aims to inspire all those looking to contribute to a more sustainable and just world.
The GoodPlanet Foundation has been awarded the IDEAS Label for its governance, financial management, and efficient programmes.