Susan Knowlton
Senior Research Manager
Corteva™ Agriscience

Susan is a Senior Research Manager with Corteva™ Agriscience (formerly DuPont Pioneer) and the technical lead on the North America Oils team responsible for commercial development of high oleic oils. Susan has worked on soy oil and protein functionality for over 25 years and has been the driving force in successfully bringing Plenish® high oleic soybean oil to the market. Susan joined DuPont in 1982 as a research scientist and has enjoyed a diverse set of professional and managerial positions within the company’s agriculture research organizations. Throughout her career, she has championed the soy ‘output traits’ programs which seek to tailor crop compositions to improve the nutrition and functionality of food ingredients for consumers and food manufacturers. Susan has well over 20 published articles in scientific journals and books, speaks regularly at both national and international conferences, and is an inventor on six patents on high oleic soybean oil.