Chris Hartfield
Chris Hartfield’s career within the farming industry started in research, where he spent six years working on the biocontrol of pest insects. He then spent four years working with farmers to deliver UK Government agri-environment schemes, before joining the National Farmers’ Union in 2004. Most of his NFU career has been spent on horticultural policy, heading-up that team for two years. In 2017 Chris joined a new NFU plant health unit as senior regulatory affairs adviser, and also headed-up the NFU’s science and regulatory affairs team for a short while.
His work focusses on the regulatory process and its implications for availability and use of crop protection products, and the relationship with UK regulatory authorities, EU institutions and international regimes. Chris is the NFU policy lead on Brexit implications for pesticides. For the last ten years he’s also led the NFU’s work on bee health and insect pollinators.
Faheem Padia
Silvia Balzaretti
Sabrina Okombi
Sabrina has a background of Pharmacist, completed by a PhD in medicinal chemistry.
During 8 years, she held a position of project manager, and developed several models for the evaluation of the biological efficacy of active ingredient for cosmetic applications.
Since more than one year, she has been leading projects and an innovation platform dedicated to the skin microbiota and their application in skin care.
Sue Llewellyn
Harald van der Hoeven
Harald van der Hoeven started to work in personal care in 1999 where he specialized on R&D and formulating of skin care cosmetics.
In 2006 Harald joined CLR in Berlin and took over as Director R&D. Since May 2013 he is Technical Marketing Director at CLR, involved in both R&D and technical and scientific support of CLR's customers.
Sarah Brown
Pai is an organic skincare brand developing all-natural efficacious products from its own custom built facility in West London. Pai's mission is to do the right thing for you and your skin by creating products that are so natural, ethical and sustainable they have goodness built in.
Ruth Bastow
Ruth is the Innovation Director for Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) one of the 4 UK Agritech Centres whose mission is to advance crop productivity in a sustainable manner. Ruth obtained her Ph.D in Plant Genetics from the University of Warwick and carried out post-doctoral roles at the University of Sheffield and the John Innes Centre. Ruth left the bench in 2004 to pursue a career in science strategy, policy and communication. She established the UK Plant Sciences Federation (UKPSF) and was awarded the Society of Biology Presidents Medal for her support of the UK Plant Sciences Community. Ruth has held leadership roles as Head of the ELIXIR UK Coordination Office at the Earlham Institute and was Executive Director of the Global Plant Council. Ruth has generated over 30 peer reviewed publications and worked at/with several key international institutions and bodies including the UN FAO.