Clive James

Clive James is the founder and chairman of the board of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the use of agricultural biotechnology, such as genetically modified organisms (GMOs), in the Global South.

"In 1990, Dr James founded ISAAA, a not-for-profit charitable organization, established to facilitate the acquisition and transfer of agricultural biotechnology applications from the industrial countries, for the benefit of resource-poor farmers in the developing world. The mission of ISAAA is to alleviate hunger and poverty in the developing countries. An agricultural scientist, Dr James received his formal training in the UK with a first degree in agriculture from the University of Wales, followed by a PhD from Cambridge University. Prior to his association with ISAAA he was Deputy Director General at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico, where he worked with Dr Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and father of the Green Revolution, who is a patron of ISAAA. The last twenty five years have been spent living and/or working in the developing countries of Asia, Latin America, and Africa and devoted to agricultural research & development issues, and crop biotechnology. He has served, as a research scientist in the UK Ministry of Agriculture, the Federal

Department of Agriculture in Canada, as Senior Agricultural Adviser to the Canadian Bilateral Aid Agency (CIDA), senior officer to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and has consulted for many international development agencies including UNDP, the World Bank and many international philanthropic foundations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation. He has published internationally-recognized Annual Reviews on the Global Status of GM crops, and their contribution to global food, feed and fiber security, since 1996, when GM crops were first commercialized."

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