Trevor Nicholls Science Protecting Plant Health 2017

Trevor Nicholls

Trevor Nicholls has been Chief Executive Officer of CABI since 2005. He is also a non-executive director of three biotech companies – Avacta Group plc, Conidia Biosciences Ltd and hVivo plc. He has broad experience of initiating change and restructuring organisations. Trevor holds a BA and D.Phil in Biochemistry from the University of York and Diploma qualifications in Marketing (CIM) and Company Directorship (IoD). Under Trevor’s leadership, CABI has defined its mission as the strengthening of global capacity to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. The organisation has developed a strategic focus on providing knowledge to enable poor rural farmers in the developing world to grow more, raise quality and increase income. CABI is leading Plantwise, a global initiative to increase global food security by reducing losses to pests and diseases. CABI delivers its projects in close partnership with national institutions and NGOs in all the countries where it works and has established a very successful joint lab with the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture in China.