Dan Jenkins has 30 years of experience working in the food and agriculture industry and serves as the Vice President of Regulatory and Government Affairs for Pairwise. Prior to this Dan was the Managing Director and Chief of Staff of the Agricultural Section of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) trade association in Washington DC.  Dan also led Monsanto’s Regulatory team in Washington DC overseeing all domestic chemistry and biotech crop approvals across FDA, EPA and USDA, and at the beginning of his career, worked in pesticide commercial sales, as well as R&D, for Dow AgroSciences. Dan is a past member of the American Chemistry Society’s editorial board for the Agricultural Science and Technology journal, and a current member of the advisory board to North Carolina State University’s Plant Sciences Initiative’s Center of Excellence for Regulatory Science in Agriculture as well as a board member of the American Seed Trade Association. Dan has recently published in Nature Plants as well as the Society for In Vitro Biology on the topic of gene editing policy. Dan earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, a Master of Science degree in Entomology and Applied Ecology from the University of Delaware and his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School.