Professor Michael Winter OBE
Biography
Professor Winter OBE is a rural policy specialist and social scientist with expertise covering a wide range of environmental and agro-food issues with particular interests in applying inter-disciplinary approaches to policy-relevant research. He is currently the Glanely Professor of Agricultural Change in the Geography Department and a member of the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter.
Past positions held by Professor Winter include membership of the board of Natural England, Defra’s Review Group on Bovine TB, Expert Panel for the National Ecosystem Assessment, Defra’s Science Advisory Council, commissioner and board member of the Commission for Rural Communities and the Committee of Inquiry on Hunting.
Previous roles in government
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Non-executive board member