John Innes Centre
UK
Though only around 10% of this research institute's funding comes from industry sources, it is heavily oriented towards corporate (especially GM) interests. A former acting director, Mike Gale, told his local paper that a GM moratorium would be a serious financial blow to the JIC: "It would be very, very serious for us." The article continues, "A ban would choke off many grants which the John Innes Centre receives from industry to research genetic modification techniques." The Sainsbury Laboratory is part of the JIC. The company Norfolk Plant Sciences, founded by Jonathan Jones and Cathie Martin, was spun out from the JIC.
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Report: Biospinology in our science communication?
Article: Two-faced science
See also: David Baulcombe, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Phil Dale, Jonathan Jones, Chris Lamb, Mike Gale, Tony Trewavas, Derek Burke, Cathie Martin, Julian Little
Gary Johns
Australia
A senior fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs and head of its NGO Project, which published a monthly newsletter "dedicated to watching activist NGOs".
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See also: Institute of Public Affairs
Huw D Jones UK
Professor of Translational Genomics for Plant Breeding at Aberystwyth University, with a particular interest in gene editing. Longtime advocate for the deregulation of gene-edited GMOs. Previously a Senior Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research. Member of the UK government's Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE). Also a member of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP), which advises the UK Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland, and of the ACNFP PGT Subcommittee on products of genetic technologies destined for food and feed purposes. Member of the GMO panel of the European Food Safety Authority (2009-2018). Member of EPSO - a scientist lobby group active in promoting deregulation of new GMOs at the EU level. Member of Plant ETP, which was set up by EPSO and the GM industry lobby group EuropaBio. On the editorial board of GM Crops & Food.
Articles: Majority of members of UK's new GMO regulatory committee have conflicts of interest
New men at GMO advisory body ACRE appear as conflicted as those they replaced
EFSA GMO-Panel: Still biased
How "natural" is new GM?
Linked to: Rothamsted Research, Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE), Food Standards Agency, EPSO, EuropaBio, GM Crops & Food
Jonathan Jones
UK
Fellow of the Royal Society and a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre. Co-founder in 1997 of Mendel Biotechnology, which from its inception had Monsanto as its "most important customer and collaborator". According to Mendel, "The interests of Mendel and Monsanto are highly aligned". Mendel also collaborated with Bayer, and with BP on biofuels, before its R&D section was sold off to a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Co-founder in 2007, with JIC colleague Cathie Martin, of the JIC spin-out company Norfolk Plant Sciences. Has attracted controversy for the splenetic nature of some of his attacks on biotech industry critics, the misleading nature of some of his claims, and for not being sufficiently open about his vested interests.
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Articles: GMO Scientist Defends Monsanto Links
GMO Scientist Misleads University Students
Two-Faced Science
See also: Monsanto, John Innes Centre, Royal Society, Sainsbury Laboratory, David Baulcombe, Cathie Martin, Innogen
Sharad Joshi
India
Founder of the farmer unions Shetkari Sanghatana and Kisan Coordination Committee, both of which have been used to promote GM crops in India and the rest of the world.
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See also: Kisan Coordination Committee
Calestous Juma
USA 
Kenya
Harvard-based Kenyan with close ties to Monsanto, who was caught up in a scandal over non-disclosure of those ties in an article defending GMOs where, according to the Boston Globe, "Monsanto not only suggested the topic to professor Calestous Juma. It went so far as to provide a summary of what the paper could say and a suggested headline. The company then connected the professor with a marketing company to pump it out over the Internet as part of Monsanto's strategy to win over the public and lawmakers". Juma received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which created a fellowship to honour him after he died. The investigative journalist and author Tim Schwab says the reason the Gates Foundation and Monsanto both worked so closely with Juma was because as an African scholar at a prestigious university he made an ideal representative for their shared goal of introducing GMOs to Africa. The Juma article at the centre of the non-disclosure scandal was published by the the zealously pro-GMO Genetic Literacy Project, who describe Juma as "a proud supporter" of theirs.
Article: Harvard Professor Failed to Disclose Monsanto Connection
Prof Failed To Disclose Connection to Company in Paper
These Emails Show Monsanto Leaning on Professors to Fight the GMO PR War
Linked to: Monsanto, Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation