Nina V. Federoff

Nina V. Federoff was the science and technology adviser to the secretary of state from 2007 to 2010 under the Bush and Obama administrations. She is now a professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University and the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Federoff is an ardent advocate of genetically modified foods.


 * "For the 5-year period before she joined the State Department, Federoff served on the scientific advisory board at Evogene. This Israeli agriculture-biotech firm works closely with Monsanto, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Bayer CropScience, Syngenta and others. She also served on the board of Sigma-Aldrich, a transnational corporation that provides services and products — including transgenic animals — to agricultural biotech companies. And she herself was one of the early patent-holders on transgenic technologies, back in the 1980s."

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * U.S. State Department Promotion of Agricultural Biotechnology
 * U.S. Department of State Biotechnology Outreach Funds
 * Monsanto's Use of Humanitarian Projects to Open Global Markets to GMOs
 * Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project (ABSP) I
 * Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project (ABSP) II
 * Program for Biosafety Systems
 * Presidential Initiative to End Hunger in Africa (IEHA)

Leaked U.S. State Department Cables

 * Hillary Clinton, "Fao Dg Diouf Firm On His Plan For A November Summit," U.S. State Department cable via Wikileaks, March 23, 2009.

External Articles

 * Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, "Wanted Scientific Integrity on GMOs," Ground Truth, Pesticide Action Network North America, February 23, 2012.
 * Robin McKie, "Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era'," The Guardian, February 18, 2012.
 * Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, "Engineering Food for Whom," Pesticide Action Network, August 2011.
 * Nina V. Federoff, "Engineering Food for All," New York Times, August 18, 2011.