44th Annual Meeting

June 1-3, 2008

"Innovative Public-Private Partnerships that Promote
International Agricultural and Rural Development"

Speakers and Panelists

Lloyd Le Page

Mr. Lloyd Le Page is responsible for coordinating global sustainable development activities for Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business. Pioneer Sustainable Agriculture and Development (PSAD) program, which Lloyd leads, is focused on creating novel partnerships and innovative business approaches to reach previously under-served markets and to provide a foundation for sustainable business and community growth. Lloyd interacts at all levels with Private, Public, Non-profit and Academic sectors both in the US and in developing countries. These interactions are mainly focused on small farmer and sustainable development issues for Asia, Africa, Central America and Eastern Europe.

Prior to his current responsibilities, Lloyd worked for Pioneer as regional supply chain manager for Africa, and previously as production manager for South Africa and Zimbabwe. In these roles Lloyd managed large capital

expansion projects as well as addressing supply chain and product deployment challenges of reaching small and large farmers in Africa. He was also involved with trade and regulatory issues of seed movement and was responsible for implementing quality management systems such as ISO9001:2000 in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Egypt. Lloyd participated in various committees of Africa-Bio, SANSOR and the Seed Trade.

Lloyd serves as Vice President of the Iowa Council for International Understanding (ICIU) and board member for the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD). He participates on the advisory panels of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa (PCHPA), the West Africa Seed Alliance (WASA), and the Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Lloyd was one of the participants in the establishment of the Base of the Pyramid Protocol led by the Johnson School of Business at Cornell.

Although Lloyd is British, he spent his childhood in Africa. Prior to Pioneer, Lloyd's career involved farm and livestock management, agro-processing and finally sales agronomy in Zimbabwe. Lloyd moved to Iowa with his family in 2004 and lives in Johnston, Iowa.

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