Dr Kathryn Knight
Chris Hartfield
Chris Hartfield’s career within the farming industry started in research, where he spent six years working on the biocontrol of pest insects. He then spent four years working with farmers to deliver UK Government agri-environment schemes, before joining the National Farmers’ Union in 2004. Most of his NFU career has been spent on horticultural policy, heading-up that team for two years. In 2017 Chris joined a new NFU plant health unit as senior regulatory affairs adviser, and also headed-up the NFU’s science and regulatory affairs team for a short while.
His work focusses on the regulatory process and its implications for availability and use of crop protection products, and the relationship with UK regulatory authorities, EU institutions and international regimes. Chris is the NFU policy lead on Brexit implications for pesticides. For the last ten years he’s also led the NFU’s work on bee health and insect pollinators.
Faheem Padia
Silvia Balzaretti
Sabrina Okombi
Sabrina has a background of Pharmacist, completed by a PhD in medicinal chemistry.
During 8 years, she held a position of project manager, and developed several models for the evaluation of the biological efficacy of active ingredient for cosmetic applications.
Since more than one year, she has been leading projects and an innovation platform dedicated to the skin microbiota and their application in skin care.
Sue Llewellyn
Harald van der Hoeven
Harald van der Hoeven started to work in personal care in 1999 where he specialized on R&D and formulating of skin care cosmetics.
In 2006 Harald joined CLR in Berlin and took over as Director R&D. Since May 2013 he is Technical Marketing Director at CLR, involved in both R&D and technical and scientific support of CLR's customers.
Sarah Brown
Pai is an organic skincare brand developing all-natural efficacious products from its own custom built facility in West London. Pai's mission is to do the right thing for you and your skin by creating products that are so natural, ethical and sustainable they have goodness built in.