Louise Fresco#
| Membership Number: | 4407 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.louisefresco.nl |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - 2022 President of the Executive Board - Wageningen UR - Wageningen
- 2006 - 2014, July 1st - University Professor - University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam
- 2009 Non-Executive Director & member Corporate Responsibility and Reputation Committee - Unilever
- Professor at Wageningen University
Fields of Scholarship
- Tropical agriculture
Honours and Awards
- 2014- Corresponding member - Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, the Section of Technical Sciences - Brussels
- 2013- Distinguished Visiting Scholar Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF) Pretoria
- 2012- Foreign member - Académie d'Agriculture de France - Paris
- 2009- Member - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - Amsterdam
- 2000- Corresponding member - Spanish Real Academia de Ingeniería - Madrid
- 2000- Foreign member - Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry - Stockholm
- 2000-Member - Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities - Haarlem
- Other current activities
- 2013- Member - Advisory Board - Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food in the Low Countries
- 2010- Member - Board - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Amsterdam
- 2010- Advisor - Office Chérifien des Phosphates (Groupe OCP) - Morocco2010- Member - Council of Advisors - World Food Prize - Des Moines - U.S.A.
- 2006 Member - International Trilateral Commission - France | U.S.A | Japan
- 2006 Member - Board - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation - the Netherlands
- Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (based in Stockholm), a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (based in Madrid), a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and a foreign member of the French Academy of Agriculture
- Distinguished Visiting Scholar of the Academy of Science of South Africa
- Corresponding member of Belgium's Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences
- Nearly ten years service as Assistant-Director General at the a Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, spent extensive periods in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She is also a member of the Trilateral Commission. In 2014 the EU Commission asked her to chair the Evaluation of the Seventh Framework Program for Research
- Comenius and Groeneveld prizes
