Board of Trustees

Dr Colin Ruscoe - Chairman

Colin is chairman of BCPC (British Crop Production Council).
He currently works for SynTech Research where he is Director of Communications responsible for contributing to global strategy for marketing and customer service, and for the Innovative Vector Control Consortium where he is on the Executive and Expert Scientific Advisory Committee.
Prior to that he held senior positions within Syngenta and Zeneca Agrochemicals including: Research Station management, European Technical management, R&D Portfolio Planning, Environmental Science, Formulation, Regulatory, Market and R&D Information.

Tony Pexton

Tony Pexton, OBE is a Yorkshire farmer, overseeing the operation of the family business. He is also Chairman of NIAB and was Chairman of the Sustainable Arable Link Research and Development Programme Management Committee for Defra until the LINK programme was terminated earlier this year.
He was elected to the NFU Council in 1981 and went on to serve as Chairman of the National Cereal Committee from 1987 to 1992 and as Vice-President and Deputy President between 1992 and 2000. He has also served on the Council of the Oxford Farming Conference, acting as Chairman in 2002, and as a Board member of Assured Food Standards, and Chairman of the Assured Combinable Crops Scheme. Between 2002 and 2004 he was President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists and appointed Chairman of the Farmers Club in 2007. In 2005, he was awarded the OBE for services to agriculture.

Rev Prof David Atkinson

Currently Scottish Episcopal Church Minister in Aberdeenshire, Convenor of the Scottish Churches Rural Group and Principal Editor of the Church of Scotland report on Fair Trade in Food (2007), Contributor to Engineering Genesis, a study of the potential impact of genetic modification of food. 

Advisor to Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Organiser of Annual Agricultural Consultation , St Georges House, Windsor Castle, Vice Chairman of the British Crop Production Council. 
Formerly Vice Principal and Academic Director, Scottish Agricultural College. He is also editor of several Scientific Journals and author of over 250 Scientific papers.

Dr John Fisher

Peter Moring

Dr Trevor Lewis

Dr Trevor Lewis CBE, MA, PhD, DSc was formerly Head, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Director AFRC Institute of Arable Crops Research, Visiting Professor in Invertebrate Zoology, University of Nottingham, President and currently Honorary Fellow, Royal Entomological Society of London.