42 ANNUAL DIRECTORY 2017 KATHERINE RICH (NZ Food and Grocery Council) Rich has been chief executive of the industry lobby group since 2009, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts from Otago University. Her early career involved analyst positions with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. She entered Parliament in 1999 as a National list MP, and rose quickly through the hierarchy, eventually ranked 4th in the party caucus and appointed the party’s spokesperson on education. Notable achievements include leading National’s support for a bill to allow mothers in prison to keep their babies with them until they turn two (2006) and revealing irresponsible government spending (including the hip-hop tour spending debacle) in 2004. Rich has served on the Health Promotion Agency, the Food Industry Group and the Red Meat Sector Strategy’s co-ordinating group. JAMES PARSONS (Beef + Lamb New Zealand) The youngest ever elected chairman, Parsons began his term in 2014 and relocated from a Far North farm to a 478ha stud sheep and beef venture at Tangowahine in Northland. He gained a Diploma in Farm Management from Lincoln University, and has a strong history of industry service, including chairman of Federated Farmers Meat and Fibre for Northland, and Beef + Lamb NZ northern North Island farmer-director since 2009. In 2008, he was a Nuffield Scholar and completed a report ‘Supply Chain Relationships and Value Chain Design’, visiting developed markets in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, China, Mexico, Brazil and Australia over six months. PROFESSOR WARREN MCNABB (Riddet Institute) McNabb has recently joined Massey as the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) deputy director. He is also a Principal Investigator at Riddet, and is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences. McNabb was appointed research director for AgResearch in 2011, after joining the organisation in 1993 as senior research scientist in the Nutrition and Behaviour Group. He was promoted to eminent research scientist in 2004, then to general manager of the Food and Textiles Group in 2009, and his recent research has focused on nutrigenomics and nutritional epigenetics,food-host-microbial interactions and food for human health and wellbeing. McNabb has authored more than 200 publications, including several book chapters and invited reviews. He completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Honours) 1st Class in Animal Science at Massey University in 1986, and a PhD in Animal Science at Massey University in 1990. WHO’S WHO
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