Tove Blytt Holmen
Born: 04 May 1952, Norway
Position: Deputy Director General, Quality Assurance and Development, Net-work Norway Council (NNR)*
Education:
1971 – 1976 Cand.agric. dairy technology (equivalent to Master of Science in Dairy Technology) The Agricultural University of Norway (NLH)
1976 Pedagogy for scientific personnel teaching at universities, NLH 1978 – 1986 Ph.D. courses: Biochemistry, Protein Chemistry, Dairy Technology 1996 Further education course in politics and planning
Work experience:
1977 – 1991 Various scientifically related positions, Institute of Food and Dairy Technology, NLH
1991 - 1994 Development and administration of Centre for Continuing Education, NLH
1994 - 1995 Head of Division, Ministry of Agriculture
1995 – 1998 Director of studies (registrar) and of continuing education, NLH 1998 - Deputy Director General, Quality Assurance and Development,
Net-work Norway Council (NNR)1 Positions of trust:
1975 – 1994 Member of working groups, councils and faculty board concerning Agricultural University of Norway and related fields of work 1994 – 1995 Member of steering group for further education of farmers (rep
senting Ministry of Agriculture)
re-1995 – 1997 Hotel and conference centre (Sem Gjestegård), Chairman of the Board 1999 - ENQA, European Network of Quality Assurance in Higher Education,
member of the steering group.
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1 Network Norway Council, NNR, is an advisory body to the Ministry of Education and Research in long term mat-ters concerning higher education, and also the national agency for quality assurance of higher education.
Orla Grøn Pedersen
Date of birth: 4 December 1944
Career:
1991- Director, The Danish Bacon and Meat Council (DBMC) and Direc-tor of the National Committee for Pig Production.
Member of the board of directors of the Danish Agricultural Advi-sory Centre.
1986 – 1999: Head of the Department, DBMC 1978 – 1986: Head of the Department, DBMC
1973 – 1978: Advisor, DBMC
Professional experience:
1986- External examiner at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Univer-sity
1991- Secretary to the Research Committee of the Pig Industry and member of the Research Committee of the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
2001- Chairman of The Danish Pig Genome Partnership and Director of The Danish Pig Genome General Partnership. Member of the International Board of The Sino-Danish Pig Genome Consortium.
Member of the National Committee on Animal Welfare, the Dan-ish Ministry of Justice
Member of the European Pig Selection and Production Associa-tion
Concurrent occupation:
Developed a new research and test programme, the Danish Ap-plied Pig Research Scheme in 1973
Papers to congresses and symposia in Europe, Australia and the United States
Educational background:
M.Sc., Agriculture, 1973 from the Royal Veterinary and Agricul-tural University.
Specialist courses on animal science in Denmark and abroad.
John J. Robinson Education:
1966 - The Queen's University, Belfast, Ph.d.
1963 - The Queen's University, Belfast, BAgr (First Class Hons) Appointments:
1998 - present Professor of Animal Reproduction, Scottish Agricultural College (Aber-deen).
1994 - 1998
Senior Scientist, Animal Reproduction, Scottish Agricultural College (Aberdeen)
1968 – 1994 Applied Nutrition Department, RRI: 1968 Senior Scientific Officer; 1973 Principal Scientific Officer; 1983 Senior Principal Scientific Officer (Indi-vidual Merit)
1967 - 1968 Agricultural Research Council post, Department of Agriculture, Wye College, University of London
1963 – 1967 Research in sheep nutrition, Department of Crop and Animal Hus-bandry, Queen's University, Belfast.
John Robinson has served on several UK Government Advisory Committees and was a member of the 1982 European Society for Animal Production team that reported on Perspectives and Pros-pects for Livestock Production in Europe.
Committees and Profes-sional Organisations:
Steering Committee of the Scottish Initiative for Foetal and Post Natal Development
Steering Committee of the Boyd Orr Research Centre Editorial Board of the Journal of Animal Feed Sciences
Past President and now Honorary Life Member of the British Society of Animal Science.
Expertise: Whole animal reproductive physiology and its associated technologies including semen cryopreservation, artificial insemination, in vitro embryo culture, embryo metabolism and embryo transfer. Research programmes on cervical function; the embryonic programming of foetal growth and development; and improvements in reproductive efficiency through nutrition spanning the science disciplines, thus optimising their scientific and practical value.
Peter van der Schans
Born: 16 May 1926, the Netherlands
Life experience:
1999 - Honorary President of Stoas
1991 – 1999 Chairman of the Foundation for Agrarian Educational Science and Teacher Training (Stoas)
Degree certificate: Engineer (Master of Science Wageningen Univer-sity)
1985 – 1991 Chairman of the Association of the 14 Dutch Universities (V.S.N.U.) 1978 – 1985 Chairman of the Board of the Agricultural University Wageningen 1964 - 1978 Managing director of (Primary, Secondary and Higher) Agricultural
Education and Training in the Department of Agriculture, Nature and Food
1961 – 1964 Chief of the Inspection of Agricultural Education at the Ministry of Agriculture
1958 - 1961 Inspector of Agricultural Education at the Department of Agriculture 1955 - 1958 Civil Servant at the Ministry of Labour
1951 – 1955 Civil servant at the autonomous Foundation of Public Rights for Agri-culture
1952 Degree Certificate: Dip.Ing.Agr. (MSc. Agricultural University Wage-ningen)
1945 - 1952 Student at the Agricultural University Wageningen
1926 - 1945 Living at family farm in the delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse Primary and secondary education.
Some other passions in
former days: Chairman of the Dutch Foundation for Educational Research (S.V.O.) Vice-chairman of the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences
Member of the Board of the Agricultural Centre I.A.C. Wageningen Member of the Board of the International Institute Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences I.T.C. Enschede
Chairman of the Association of Dutch horse-riding schools Chairman of the Dutch Jockey Club.
Harald von Witzke Academic background:
1982 - Göttingen University, Germany, Dr. sc. agr. habil. (post doctoral degree), agricultural economics
1977 - Göttingen University, Germany, Dr. sc.agr. (Ph.D), agricultural economics
1974 Göttingen University, Germany, Dipl.-Ing. agr. (M. Sc.).
Professional experience:
1994 - Professor and Chair for International Agricultural Trade and Development, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
1991 – 1992 Director, Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
1983 – 1994 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, Depart-ment of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Min-nesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
1982 - 1983 Associate Professor (Privatdozent), Göttingen University, Ger-many
1974 – 1982 Research Fellow and Research Associate, Göttingen University, Germany.
Honorary appointments:
1998 Scientific Council, International Center for Business and Public Management, Olsztyn University, Olsztyn, Poland
1994 International Affiliate, Center for International Food and Agri-cultural Policy, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA 1992 Adjunct Faculty, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Areas of academic emphasis: International Trade and Development
Public Choice, Game Theory, Institutional Economics.