Dr Peter Beetham has over 30 years of experience in the bio-agriculture community.
He was employed by the Victorian Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (DARA) in Australia from 1985 to 1992, serving as a Scientific Officer based at the Plant Research Institute (PRI), working with research groups throughout Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. He continued his research as a postdoctoral scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University, where he was one of the pioneers of the early work that led to the RTDS technologies.
Dr Beetham is the co-founder and chief executive of US-based agricultural biotechnology company Cibus Global LLC where he led the scientific and regulatory endeavours as R&D director. He has been president and chief executive of Cibus since July 2014. Prior to Cibus, he was the research director of plant and industrial products division at ValiGen, formerly Kimeragen Inc.
