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Giddings, L. Val
Biotechnology policy studies with the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA was closed in 1995).
Biotechnology consultant to the World Bank.
Senior staff geneticist, international team leader, and branch chief for science and policy coordination with the biotechnology products regulatory division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) (1989-97). While at APHIS he served on the U.S. delegations that negotiated the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and represented the U.S. at the UNCED Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. (1)
As of 2005, vice president for food and agriculture at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) (since 1997). (2)
Endnotes:
(1) Biotechnology Industry Organization biography at http://www.bio.org/aboutbio/vp/vgiddings.asp , accessed Jan 16, 2005
(2) Biotechnology Industry Organization biography at http://www.bio.org/aboutbio/vp/vgiddings.asp , accessed Jan 16, 2005
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