Noted Environmental Leader Dr. Jason Clay Joins DuPont Biotech Advisory Board

Energy Resource, Dec 7, 2006

ENERGY RESOURCE-7 December 2006-Noted Environmental Leader Dr. Jason Clay Joins DuPont Biotech Advisory Board(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com

DuPont today announced that World Wildlife Fund executive Dr. Jason Clay has joined its external Biotechnology Advisory Panel.

Clay, vice president for the Center for Conservation Innovation at the World Wildlife Fund, has spent more than 20 years working with human rights and environmental organizations. In the 1980s, he was one of the inventors of "green marketing" and established a trading company that developed markets for rainforest products with nearly 200 companies in the United States and Europe.

Recently, Clay has helped examine the social and environmental impacts of commodity production. In 1999, he created the Shrimp Aquaculture and the Environment Consortium to help address the environmental and social impacts of shrimp aquaculture. Clay was also founder and editor of the award-winning Cultural Survival Quarterly, the largest circulation anthropology and human rights publication in the world.

"Jason Clay's extensive work to identify and analyze better management practices to reduce the environmental and social impacts of agriculture will prove invaluable as we work toward achieving our expanded business sustainability commitments that address safety, environment, energy and climate change in the global marketplace," said DuPont Chairman and CEO Charles O. Holliday Jr. "His expertise and global perspectives, as well as those of our other panel members, are assets to our decision-making process as we bring new products to market."

Established in 2000, the DuPont external Biotechnology Advisory Panel is an independent panel charged with providing counsel to guide DuPont's actions, help create positions on important issues, as well as challenge the organization in the development, testing and commercialization of new products based on biotechnology.

Other panel members include:

-- Dr. Marcelo Carvalho de Andrade, founding chairman of Pro-Natura, the first international nongovernmental organization headquartered in the southern hemisphere to specialize in sustainable development.

-- Father Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J., Ph.D., research associate professor in the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center and an expert on human genetic engineering, cloning and stem cell research.

-- Chebet Maikut, president of the Uganda National Farmers Federation(UNFFE), one of the largest farming organizations in Uganda.

-- Dr. V. Prakash, director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), internationally recognized for his work in sustainable food and nutrition security.

-- Dr. Sven Thormahlen, vice president of the Research and Development Organization of the Danone Group, one of the leading dairy products, biscuits and mineral water companies.

The work of the advisory panel is facilitated by the Keystone Center, a non-profit organization based in Keystone, Colo., which includes a regular audit of DuPont's progress in the biotechnology arena. The public report is available at www.dupont.com/biotech.> ((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@scitech21.com))

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