Full Name
Paul Paul Spencer
Job Title
Global Trade Policy Leader
Company
Corteva Agriscience
Speaker Bio
Paul Spencer joined Corteva Agriscience in January 2019 and is the global trade policy advocacy leader. He provides strategic counsel to the company’s business platforms on a range of trade policy issues, including biotechnology asynchronous approvals, low-level presence, plant breeding innovations, and pesticide maximum residue levels.
Paul represents Corteva externally on trade-related BIO task forces, the CropLife America Trade Steering Group, the U.S. Grains Council’s Trade Policy Advisory Team, the National Grain and Feed Association’s Crop Technology Committee, the Executive Committee of the Coalition to Promote U.S. Agricultural Exports (MAP/FMD) and was selected by USTR and the Department of Commerce to serve on the International Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC-3).
Paul was previously a senior foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service. His last U.S. government position was director of the new technologies and Production Methods Division based in Washington, D.C. This office provides trade policy advocacy and advice on agricultural biotechnology; for example, leading staff-level U.S.-China biotechnology policy discussions and drafting and executing USDA’s genome editing international outreach plan. As a member of USDA’s Biotechnology Task Force, he contributed international policy perspectives to the Department’s work on regulatory reform, interagency regulatory cooperation, and strategic policy planning.
Paul began his career with the Department of Agriculture in 1993. From 2010-14, he was agricultural counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin and was responsible for USDA programs and policies in Austria, Hungary, and Germany. He has also served at U.S. Embassies in Baghdad, Tokyo, and Vienna.
Mr. Spencer holds a Master of Business Administration in international business from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a degree in economics from Colorado State University. He is married to Sandy MacGregor, and they have three children, Grace, Forrest, and John.
Paul represents Corteva externally on trade-related BIO task forces, the CropLife America Trade Steering Group, the U.S. Grains Council’s Trade Policy Advisory Team, the National Grain and Feed Association’s Crop Technology Committee, the Executive Committee of the Coalition to Promote U.S. Agricultural Exports (MAP/FMD) and was selected by USTR and the Department of Commerce to serve on the International Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC-3).
Paul was previously a senior foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service. His last U.S. government position was director of the new technologies and Production Methods Division based in Washington, D.C. This office provides trade policy advocacy and advice on agricultural biotechnology; for example, leading staff-level U.S.-China biotechnology policy discussions and drafting and executing USDA’s genome editing international outreach plan. As a member of USDA’s Biotechnology Task Force, he contributed international policy perspectives to the Department’s work on regulatory reform, interagency regulatory cooperation, and strategic policy planning.
Paul began his career with the Department of Agriculture in 1993. From 2010-14, he was agricultural counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin and was responsible for USDA programs and policies in Austria, Hungary, and Germany. He has also served at U.S. Embassies in Baghdad, Tokyo, and Vienna.
Mr. Spencer holds a Master of Business Administration in international business from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a degree in economics from Colorado State University. He is married to Sandy MacGregor, and they have three children, Grace, Forrest, and John.
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