Full Name
Rod Snyder
Job Title
Former Senior Advisor for Agriculture to the EPA Administrator
Company
Junction Strategies, LLC
Speaker Bio
Former Senior Advisor for Agriculture to the EPA Administrator
Rod Snyder served in the Biden-Harris Administration from October 2021 through August 2024 as Senior Advisor for Agriculture to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In March 2024, he was named as the director of EPA’s newly established Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Snyder is recognized for more than two decades of leadership at the intersection of agricultural and environmental policy. From 2014-2021, he served as president of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, which is the largest multi-stakeholder initiative working to advance the sustainability of commodity crop farming in the United States. In this role, he forged science-based consensus among diverse stakeholders across the food and agriculture value chain on complex issues such as climate change, water quality, biodiversity, and pest management. In 2015, Snyder co-founded the Sustainable Agriculture Summit, which has grown to be the largest and most prominent annual sustainable agriculture conference in North America.
Prior to his time at Field to Market, Snyder held positions as Public Policy Director for the National Corn Growers Association and Government Affairs Leader for CropLife America. He has been a longtime champion of agricultural solutions to climate change and has on two occasions organized farmer delegations to participate in UN Climate Summits in Paris and Copenhagen.
Snyder holds a B.A. in Political Science from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He resides on his family farm in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.
Rod Snyder served in the Biden-Harris Administration from October 2021 through August 2024 as Senior Advisor for Agriculture to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In March 2024, he was named as the director of EPA’s newly established Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Snyder is recognized for more than two decades of leadership at the intersection of agricultural and environmental policy. From 2014-2021, he served as president of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, which is the largest multi-stakeholder initiative working to advance the sustainability of commodity crop farming in the United States. In this role, he forged science-based consensus among diverse stakeholders across the food and agriculture value chain on complex issues such as climate change, water quality, biodiversity, and pest management. In 2015, Snyder co-founded the Sustainable Agriculture Summit, which has grown to be the largest and most prominent annual sustainable agriculture conference in North America.
Prior to his time at Field to Market, Snyder held positions as Public Policy Director for the National Corn Growers Association and Government Affairs Leader for CropLife America. He has been a longtime champion of agricultural solutions to climate change and has on two occasions organized farmer delegations to participate in UN Climate Summits in Paris and Copenhagen.
Snyder holds a B.A. in Political Science from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He resides on his family farm in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.
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