Arnaud Apoteker, from France, holds a PhD in applied physical-chemical biology and has worked as a post-doctoral student in the University of Arizona on glucose sensor. He has been an environmentalist since he read ‘Limits to growth’ in 1972. He has been working with Greenpeace France from 1991 to 2011 on most of the issues of the organisation: toxics, nuclear, overfishing and played a pivotal role in creating and designing an international campaign on genetic engineering in agriculture that became one of the priorities of the organisation, leading to the Biosafety Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the EU 2001/18 Directive. He then served as an advisor on genetic engineering and pesticide issues to the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament. In 2016-2017, he coordinated the International Monsanto Tribunal. He co-founded the Justice Pesticides Association, which aims to help victims of pesticides with an international database of legal cases related to pesticides in the world. He authored ‘Du poisson dans les fraises, Notre alimentation manipulée’, published in Paris by La Découverte in April 1999 and translated into Italian and Chinese.
