Supervisory Board Member
Ertharin Cousin
Member of the Supervisory Board of Bayer AG since October 2019, elected until 2024
Independent Consultant
Memberships in comparable supervising bodies of German or foreign corporations:
- Camelot North America (Board of Directors)
- Mondelez International, Inc. (Board of Directors)**
** listed company
Curriculum Vitae
| May 12, 1957 | born in Chicago, USA |
| 1979 | BA Criminal Justice and Political Science, University of Illinois, USA |
| 1982 | Doctor of Jurisprudence, University of Georgia School of Law, USA |
| 1994–1997 | United States Department of State, White House Liaison, Special Advisor to Secretary for 2016 Olympics, Washington D.C., USA |
| 1997–2002 | Albertsons LLC, Senior Vice President, Boise, USA Jewel Food Stores, Vice President Government and Community Affairs, Chicago USA |
| 2003–2006 | Feeding America (formerly America’s Second Harvest), Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chicago, USA |
| 2006–2009 | The Polk Street Group LLC, Founding President and Chief Executive Officer, Chicago, USA |
| 2009–2017 | United States Department of State, U.S. Ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies, Rome, Italy |
| 2012–2017 | United Nations World Food Program, Executive Director, Rome, Italy |
| since 2017 | Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Center on Food Security and Environment, Visiting Scholar (until 2019 Payne Distinguished Lecturer), Stanford, USA The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Distinguished Fellow, Chicago, USA |
| since 2019 | Food Systems for the Future, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Chicago, USA |