Hakluyt
UK
British strategic intelligence firm, formed by two veteran MI6 spies, that worked for Monsanto.
Articles: Monsanto's Spies, Hakluyt Report: White House Has Monsanto’s Back
White House Has “Monsanto’s Back on Pesticides,” Newly Revealed Document Says
Bernd Halling
Germany
European public policy manager of EuropaBio.
Profiles: Powerbase
Article: Fake Blood on the Maize
See also: EuropaBio
Karl Haro von Mogel
USA
Co-founder with Anastasia Bodnar of Biofortified, where he is Director of Science and Media and Co-Executive Editor of the Biofortified Blog. His Biofortified co-directors have included Anastasia Bodnar, Kevin Folta, Pamela Ronald and David Tribe.
Profiles: SourceWatch
Articles: Once aligned to fight for Monsanto, GMO activists now battle among themselves
How "the Biofortified boys" defended the pesticide industry's secrets in Hawaii
Biofortified Aids Chemical Industry PR & Lobbying Efforts
New row erupts over Folta's failure to disclose lucrative Bayer consultancy
Tell the Truth About GMOs, Avoid Myths Put Out by Biotech Industry and its Followers
Links to: Biofortified, Anastasia Bodnar, Kevin Folta, Pamela Ronald, David Tribe, Mary Mangan, Cami Ryan, Drew Kershen, Calestous Juma, Steve Savage, Kavin Senapathy, Food Evolution
Jonathon Harrington
UK
Pro-GM agricultural consultant, and part of the biotech industry-funded lobby group CropGen, who claims to have grown GM crops in Wales against the unanimous wishes of the Welsh Assembly.
Profiles: Powerbase
Article: No evidence for Harrington claim
See also: CropGen
Wallace A Hayes USA
Editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) when it published a paper by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini. Became a Monsanto consultant, then retracted the Séralini paper.
Articles: Uncovered: Monsanto campaign to get Séralini study retracted
Retraction by corruption: the 2012 Séralini paper
See also: Richard Goodman, David Saltmiras, Dan Goldstein, Eric Sachs and Bruce Hammond
HarvestPlus
USA
Also known as the Challenge Program on Biofortification, HarvestPlus is a programme of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) to produce nutritionally enhanced crops (in practice, this often means GM) for the Third World.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, International Rice Research Institute
Brian Heap UK
Former vice president of the Royal Society. Former director of research at the Roslin Institute. Helped co-author two (Royal Society and Nuffield Council) of the four reports rushed out in an attempt to discredit the research of Dr Arpad Pusztai.
Profiles: Powerbase
Book chapter: The 'Star Chamber' (Chapter 6 of Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat, by Andy Rowell)
Articles: Strange Bedfellows
Links to: Royal Society, Peter Lachmann, Robert May, Nuffield Council, Sense About Science
Ron Herring
USA
Cornell based political scientist and advisor, along with CS Prakash, to the industry-linked Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education (FBAE) based in Bangalore.
Article: China, Rice and GMOs, Response to Herring from DDS
See also: Shanthu Shantharam
David Hill
UK
Director of the PR and lobbying firm Bell Pottinger and former managing director of its subsidiary Good Relations, where he was a public relations advisor to Monsanto. Was director of communications for former UK prime minister Tony Blair.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Bell Pottinger Good Relations, Chime Communications
Hill and Knowlton
USA
PR and lobbying firm at the centre of controversy for its work for the tobacco industry and for garnering support for the US invasion of Iraq. Spiked held events at its London HQ. Hill and Knowlton also helped sponsor a Spiked London conference minimising risk.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Spiked
John Hillman
UK
Former director of the Scottish Crop Research Institute and formerly on the board of the BioIndustry Association. Has followed Dennis Avery in making unsubstantiated pejorative claims about organic food.
Profiles: Powerbase
Articles: Prof Hillman attacked for promoting bogus claims
See also: Dennis Avery, BioIndustry Association, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Bill Macfarlane Smith, Mike Wilson
Hoover Institution
USA
Pro-corporate think tank. Henry I. Miller, who lobbies for GM food, is a senior research fellow.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Henry I. Miller
Rob Horsch USA
Former Monsanto Vice President. Horsch said his role at Monsanto is to "create goodwill and help open future markets". Florence Wambugu's GM sweet potato project was Horsch's brainchild together with another colleague at Monsanto in consort with Joel Cohen from USAID. Became Deputy Director for Agricultural Research & Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2006-2018). On the Advisory Council of the Global Farmer Network. On the board of 2Blades Foundation, which is funded by the Gatsby Foundation and collaborates closely with the Sainsbury Laboratory, and which has partnered with Bayer and Monsanto.
Horticulture Research International (became Warwick HRI, closed 2009)
UK
Was the UK government's main testing and development arm for market gardening, fruit and related crops. Under Mike Wilson, who became HRI's director in 1999, it took on a markedly pro-GM trajectory. Wilson claimed biotechnology was a key growth area for horticulture and that he had "brought new contacts to the organisation which, I believe, will bring in substantial sums of money." In 2000 he controversially shut down a highly regarded non-GM HRI research centre that had pioneered biological pest control, among other alternatives to GM. In 2003, HRI was merged with the University of Warwick and then reconstituted as Warwick HRI. Wilson said this had "secured the future of UK horticultural research and development" but in 2009 Warwick decided to close down Warwick HRI as the centre was losing the university £2 million a year.
Profiles: Powerbase
See also: Mike Wilson
Hudson Institute
USA
Conservative free market think tank with biotech industry funding. Hosts the Center for Global Food Issues, formerly directed by the late Dennis Avery.
Profiles: Powerbase, SourceWatch
See also: Alex Avery, Michael Fumento