DSF Multi-stakeholder Advisory Council
Multi-stakeholder Advisory Council (ADCO)
- Is a resource for Governors to both challenge and source solutions to DSF related sustainability challenges.
- Is a ‘sounding board’ for Governors when evolving the DSF model.
- Members are specifically selected from a range of stakeholder groups identified by the DSF as having an interest in the sustainable development of the sector.
- Has two physical meetings per annum (One with the DSF Governors) and other ‘calls’ as and when required.
- May be required at times to provide input if requested by the EWG or the DSF Development Group.
- Is chaired by the DSF Governor representing the International Dairy Federation, providing a direct link to the Governors.
- Undertakes regular reviews to ensure the ADCO has the necessary stakeholder input.
- Also operates as the ADCO for the Sustainable Dairy Partnership based on their understanding of the fundamentals of the DSF.
Piercristiano Brazzale
Piercristiano Brazzale
ADCO Chair IDF PresidentPiercristiano is the Co-CEO of Brazzale Dairy Company Group which includes several farms of milk, pig and cow breeding and dairy processing plants of butter and several types of cheeses. located in Italy, Czech Republic, China and Brazil. The company export dairy products around the world in 65 countries.
He is also the Supervisor and technical manager of a 5,000-ha family-owned farm with a milk production of 900 grazing lactating cows up to 2006. A silvopastoral system for carbon neutral meat production of 4,000 grazing cattle with a 1,300-ha eucalyptus plantation for timber production that which contributes actively for better levels of carbon footprint and sustainability.
Brazzale is also the President of Fil-IDF and stands on four committees including: SCENV (environment), SCDST (dairy technologies), SCFM (farm management), and SCNH (nutrition and health).
Alisha Staggs
Alisha Staggs
The Nature ConservancyWith more than 15 years of experience in environmental sustainability, field work, agriculture, and animal care, Alisha Staggs is director of the dairy program for The Nature Conservancy’s North America Agriculture Program. She brings deep experience from both the non-profit and corporate sectors, and previously held roles at Walmart, EDF and WWF. Alisha holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. in Field Biology.
Brian Maughan
Brian Maughan
RabobankBrian Maughan is an Executive Director with the Financial Advisory and Solutions Team in Rabobank, based at its office in Dublin, Ireland. Brian is a part of a multi-disciplinary global team which services Rabobank’s wholesale food and agri client base as a trusted advisor and corporate finance solution provider. Brian has worked with Rabobank since 2005 and throughout that time has worked with the bank’s clients to develop and execute tailored solutions to address their more complex financing needs. He has extensive experience working with dairy sector clients in Europe, developing solutions across a range of areas such as working capital financing, strengthening cooperative capital and farmer finance programs.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Limerick, a Graduate Diploma in Accounting from Dublin City University and is an Associate of the Irish Tax Institute. He previously worked as a tax consultant with PwC in Dublin and London and as a European Tax Manager with General Electric.
Chris Brown
Chris Brown
ASDAChris is the Senior Director Sustainable Supply Chains for ASDA. Previous to this appointment he held positions in Government and at the Meat and Livestock Commission where he was Beef Strategy Manager. He moved into retail as Agricultural Technologist with Marks and Spencer before joining ASDA. His remit covers supply chain standards development, Greenhouse Gas management and new product development. He was a member of the Bioscience for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Strategy Advisory Panel of the BBRSC (2016 -2022).
Donald Moore
Donald Moore
Global Dairy Platform & DSF Chairman Global Dairy PlatformDonald is the Executive Director of the Global Dairy Platform (GDP), based in Chicago USA, and serves as Chairman of the Dairy Sustainability Framework, as a leader of the Pathways to Dairy Net Zero initiative, and as a member of the UN Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL) Guiding Group. He is the past Chairman of the International Agri-Food Network (IAFN) and the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) to the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
Before joining GDP in 2010, Donald spent 10 years with Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd. in a variety of roles including Managing Director, Oceania; Director, Business Development and Director, Ingredients Marketing. While with Fonterra Donald represented the cooperative on the boards of many of its joint venture businesses in Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Europe.
Prior to his involvement in the dairy sector, Donald spent 10 years as Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand’s largest independent business and information management consulting firm where he oversaw its international expansion, opening offices across South East Asia.
Born in Northern Ireland, Donald emigrated to New Zealand in the early 1970’s and then moved to the United States to join Global Dairy Platform in 2010.
Ernesto Reyes
Ernesto Reyes
GDP Sector Lead for Dairy DevelopmentErnesto is the Sector Lead Dairy Development at the IFCN Dairy Research Network Center; he is currently in charge of the Dairy Development strategy for the Global Dairy Platform (GDP).
Together with the FAO, IFAD, and GDP, Ernesto is leading an initiative called Dairy Impact Methodology (DIM), that produces evidence about the socio-economic role of the dairy sector. DIM is also developing tools and methodologies for calculating the social benefit of the dairy sector at the regional level. DIM initiative is currently implementing some pilots in Asia and Africa.
Ernesto is a livestock economist with more than 25 years of livestock development’s experience at the global level. He currently chairs the Action Network (AN), Livestock for Social Development, AN of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (FAO livestock initiative).
Haley Grimes
Haley Grimes
American HumaneHaley Grimes serves as the Director, Farm Program Operations for American Humane. As Director of Farm Program Operations, Haley oversees the farm animal welfare audit and compliance programs. This includes providing field support for American Humane Certified™ producers, processors, retailers, and food service companies as well as the implementation of American Humane CertifiedTM standards. Haley was a Field Operations Manager with American Humane for two years prior to becoming the Director, Farm Program Operations.
Prior to joining the American Humane team, Haley worked for Country View Family Farms/Clemens Food Group as an Animal Care Quality Specialist. In this role, Haley worked closely with company team members, producers, plant team members, livestock haulers, and industry leaders on swine animal handling, animal care, and biosecurity programs and auditing. Before her work in the swine industry, Haley worked at Sheetz, Inc., where her responsibilities included reviewing and updating food recall and food defense programs as well as assessing the company’s HACCP program.
Haley attended Texas A&M University and received a B.S. in Animal Sciences with a minor in Business Administration and a certificate in meat science, as well as a M.S. in Animal Sciences with certificates in meat science and food safety.
Kevin Bellamy
Kevin Bellamy
Kevin Bellamy is a self-employed dairy industry addict involved with a number of dairy sustainability and dairy innovation projects on a global scale in developing and developed markets. After a career focused on for-profit and not-for profit activities in dairy spanning all aspects of the dairy sector Kevin continues to work towards future proofing and developing the dairy industry’s future. In a career which spanned from the UK’s Milk Marketing Board; through being CEO of the UK milk “Check off” organisation, being the founding CEO of Global Dairy Platform and Global Dairy Sector Head at, Dutch Bank, Rabobank, Kevin has gained knowledge of most aspects of the dairy sector. He now works to contribute knowledge and experience where useful to support investment and developing commercial projects.
Mary Ledman
Mary Ledman
RabobankMary Ledman joined RaboResearch as ‘Global Sector Strategist – Dairy’ based in the Chicago office in January 2018. Mary is a thought leader who has extensive knowledge of international dairy markets and policy with over thirty years of experience in the sector, including USDA, Kraft Foods, Stella Foods, and the publisher of the Daily Dairy Report.
As Rabobank’s Dairy Strategist, Mary leads a team of seven analysts around the globe and is tasked with analyzing developments in the regional and global dairy markets, developing the bank’s medium-term dairy forecasts and advising the bank on its engagement with the dairy industry.
Mary holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Agricultural Journalism and a Master of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University. In addition, she received Fulbright Scholarship to conduct comparative research on U.S. and European dairy policies at the University of Goettingen, Germany.
Mitch Kanter
Mitch Kanter
Dairy ManagementMitch Kanter, PhD serves as the Chief Science Officer for the Global Dairy Platform (GDP), a position he has held since December 2018. GDP leads a global collaboration of dairy companies, associations, scientific partners, and others to demonstrate the role of dairy in a healthy diet, as well as the dairy sector’s commitment to sustainable food production.
Dr. Kanter has worked in the healthy food and beverage industry as well as the agricultural sector for over 30 years, serving in diverse roles for various multinational companies, including Director of The Gatorade Sports Science Institute and Director of Nutrition Science & Scientific Communications for the Quaker Oats Company; Director of Nutrition Research for General Mills; Discovery Director, Director of Venturing, and Senior Research Fellow for Cargill, and Chief Science Officer for the Alliance for Potato Research & Education (APRE). Dr. Kanter has also served as the Executive Director of the American Egg Board and as Chief Science Officer for FoodMinds.
Dr. Kanter holds BS and MS degrees from Queens College in New York City, as well as MS and PhD degrees from the Ohio State University. He served as an NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Preventive Medicine Dept. at the Washington University School of Medicine after receiving his PhD, and spent four years as an assistant professor at Northeastern Illinois University and Rush Medical School after graduation. He currently holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at the University of Minnesota.
Okeyo Mwai
Okeyo Mwai
ILRIDr Ally Okeyo Mwai is a quantitative animal geneticist and is currently a Principal Scientist and Deputy Program Leader-Livestock Genetics Program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Okeyo holds a PhD in Animal Genetics and Breeding from University of Nairobi and Master of Science in Animal Science from University of California, Davis,USA. Okeyo has more than 36 years of experience in practical design, leadership and implementation of livestock (cattle, sheep, goats and poultry) genetic improvement programs in developing countries, specifically in Kenya, Eastern and Southern Africa, South Asia and South East Asia regions and has published and co-published more than 5 book chapters and 300 scientific article in refereed journals and international scientific conferences, as well as several manuals.
He currently leads the African-Asian Dairy Genetics Gain Research Program (African Dairy Genetic Gains (ADGG)), and research on innovative application of emerging genomic and information technologies aimed at transforming tropical smallholder dairy systems and previously Senior Research Office in-charge goat Breeding Research Facility and Flock, National Animal Husbandry Research center, Naivasha, Kenya: Scientific Research Division, Ministry of Livestock Development.
Okeyo’s current research focus includes design and evaluation of sustainable livestock, genetic improvement programs, especially dairy cattle improvement and ICT and related ICT and genomic innovations that deliver impact at scale. Other interests include innovative use of sensors to capture difficult to measure phenotypes, capacity building and mentoring of young animal scientists and front-line extension agents working around livestock improvement in general and facilitation of pro-sustainable policy changes and implementation processes. He also has great passion for environmental health, especially tree planting and, soil and water management and conservation.
Partha Ray
Partha Ray
The Nature ConservancyDr. Partha Ray is a dairy scientist and a veterinarian with over 10 years of experience working with dairy production stakeholders to develop on-farm and system level solutions to improve dairy production sustainability. Following a B.S. in Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry and a M.S. of Veterinary Science, Animal Nutrition in India, he received his Ph.D. in Animal Sciences, Dairy from Virginia Tech.
Ruaraidh Petre
Ruaraidh Petre
GRSB (Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef)Ruaraidh (Rory) has been the Executive Director of GRSB since 2012. He studied agriculture in Edinburgh, specialising in livestock production, and an MSc in tropical animal production and health. His early career was in commercial livestock and farm management in New Zealand, Australia and Scotland.
He went on to work on farming systems in India and veterinary development in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Subsequently in Africa he managed a range of farmer support and development projects, serving as regional director for Solidaridad in Southern Africa as well as International Livestock Programme Coordinator until joining GRSB.
Over the past decade he has overseen the growth of the sustainable beef roundtable network to include 24 countries with a common commitment to making sustainable beef part of a thriving food system. The GRSB released its global goals on reducing climate impact, nature positive production and animal welfare in early July 2021 and is currently working on the MRV framework to report on progress.
