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Genetically Modified Crops

About the Working Party

The Working Party's Terms of Reference

Membership of the Working Party


Professor Alan Ryan (Chairman)
Warden of New College, University of Oxford

Professor Derek Burke CBE

Former Vice Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, and Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Novel Foods and Processes (1988-97)

Professor Mike Gale FRS

Director, The John Innes Centre, Norwich

Professor Brian Heap CBE FRS

Master of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Miss Prue Leith OBE

Vice President of the Royal Society of Arts

Ms Julie Hill

Programme Adviser to the Green Alliance, an environmental charity, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) until June 1999
Professor Steve Hughes, Unilever Research Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter

Professor Michael Lipton

Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex

Mr Derek Osborn CB

Chairman of the European Environment Agency, Chairman of UNED/UK and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

(Positions as at publication, May 1999)

Last Updated Fri, 16 February 2007

2003 Follow-up

The Council has convened a new Working Group to re-assess the conclusions and recommendations of the Report in light of recent developments.

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