--------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:35:21 -0600 Subject: [biotech_activists] ProdiGene CEO is an advisor to USAID!
Biotech Activists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Posted: 11/18/2002 By [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================ >Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:58:40 -0500 >From: ISE Biotechnology Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >AgProfile interview with Anthony G. Laos > >Anthony G. Laos, president and chief executive of ProdiGene, Inc. >was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of >the Board for International Food and Agriculture Development >(BIFAD). Mr. Laos will serve a four-year term, expiring on July 28, >2005. > >BIFAD, which consists of seven members all appointed by the >President, provides advice to the Administrator of the United States >Agency for International Development (USAID) on international food >issues such as agriculture and food security. BIFAD also assists and >advises the U.S. Government Inter-Agency Working Group on Food >Security in carrying out commitments made in the U.S. Country Paper >for the November 1996 World Food Summit and on the Plan of Action >agreed to at the summit. > >"I am honored to be appointed to this position by President Bush," >Laos says. " I welcome the opportunity to work with my fellow >colleagues in promoting USAID policy and increasing world food >production." > >ProdiGene, headquartered in College Station, TX, is a private >biotechnology company that is developing and manufacturing >industrial and pharmaceutical proteins from a transgenic plant >system. > >------------------------------------------------------- >| Check out the neRAGE biotechnology news wire at | >| http://www.neRAGE.org | >------------------------------------------------------- >| Institute for Social Ecology, Biotechnology Project | >| Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering | >| 1118 Maple Hill Road | >| Plainfield, VT 05667 | >| (802) 454-7138 | >------------------------------------------------------- >| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.neRAGE.org | >------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ How to Use this Mailing List ============================================================ You received this e-mail as a result of your registration on the biotech_activists mailing list. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message type: unsubscribe biotech_activists For a list of other commands and list options, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message type: help Please direct content questions about this list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please direct technical questions about this service to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
