Peter ETTEMA
Chair of the FAO LEAP Steering Committee 2024
Chief Adviser to the Deputy Director General, Māori Partnerships and Investment, Ministry for Primary Industries, New Zealand
Cluster: Governments

Thanawat TIENSIN
Co-Chair of the FAO LEAP Steering Committee
Assistant Director-General, Director, Animal Production and Health Division and Chief Veterinarian at FAO

Sophie BERTRAND
Co-Chair
Sophie leads European communication programmes on sustainability for the European Milk Forum and is Director of Communication and Environment for the French Dairy Interbranch Organization. For over 20 years, she has led and participated in various scientific and technical projects to improve the environmental performance of the dairy industry, including the French Livestock Institute (9 years) and the French Dairy Interbranch Organization (10 years). Sophie has chaired the International Dairy Federation’s Standing Committee on Environment and led technical groups to deliver sector-specific guidelines. She has also served as a member of several FAO LEAP TAGs. She holds a Master of Science in Agriculture.

Raimon RIPOLL-BOSCH
Co-Chair
Raimon is an Associate Professor of the Wageningen University & Research’s Animal Production Systems Group. He has been involved in several research projects and initiatives at the international, regional and national levels and is interested in understanding the role of livestock in developing a sustainable future. Raimon uses a systems approach to explore the complex interactions between livestock farming, climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services and the economy. Raimon holds a PhD in sustainability assessment of livestock farming systems.

Barbara AMON
Co-Chair
Barbara is an Associate Professor in Environmental and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy of Potsdam, Germany, where she coordinates the research programme “Precision farming in crop and livestock production”. Barbara also participates in many panels dealing with sustainable agriculture, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability and the FAO LEAP Partnership. She is also Co-Chair of the Agriculture and Nature Panel under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections and the Expert Panel on Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrogen under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen.

Philippe BECQUET
Co-Chair
Philippe is an animal nutritionist at the Institut National Agronomique in Paris, France. He has spent his last 40 years in the animal nutrition and feed environment holding various positions in different companies, ranging from feed production and marketing to marketing and regulatory support for feed additives. In recent years, Philippe has built his own business and now supports the International Feed Industry Federation as a technical expert. During the last few years, he has contributed to activities involving the sustainability of livestock production, including the development of the Product Environmental Footprint of compound feed for livestock in the European Union, the FAO LEAP guidelines on feed additives and the FAO LEAP report on methane.

Tim MCALLISTER
Co-Chair
Tim McAllister is a Principal Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge, Alberta, where he leads a diverse research team that has published over 900 scientific papers studying strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, improve water use efficiency, curtail antimicrobial resistance, improve food safety and enhance biodiversity. His recent interests include studying the role of livestock in provision of ecosystem services within a circular bioeconomy. He is the past Chair of the FAO LEAP Steering Committee and currently co-hosts the popular “Cows on the Planet” podcast with Kim Stanford.