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| Members of Council - 2011-2012: |
Council is elected from among the members of the Society, and Council elects its own
President. Members of Council normally serve for 3 years - the term can be extended to 6 if
re-elected - and meet 4-5 times per year. The main function of Council is to decide on the
topics and authors for the presentations at Meetings and Conferences, and also to oversee
the running of the Society. Council appoints a Secretary to organise the Society's affairs.
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John Peace, President of the Society
John Peace joined the fertiliser world in 1969 with the sulphur distribution and grinding company, Seaton Chemical Developments Ltd. In 1985, with his wife Susan, he founded J & S Technical Services Ltd. Since then the company has grown both in product range and supplier base, operating worldwide with sulphur products from Asia, Canada, France, Saudi Arabia and the USA. Having sold his company in 2006, although remaining a director, he is now an independent consultant in sulphur handling, grinding and forming.
John is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Chemist. a Member of the Society of Chemical Industry and of the Royal Society of Chemistry, being also a Volunteer for their Benevolent Fund.
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Peter Scott, Vice President
Peter Scott graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1984 with an Honours Degree in Forestry specialising in forestry nutrition and fertilisation. He has been actively involved in a wide range of roles in the fertiliser industry for twenty six years, initially with Scottish Agricultural Industries before establishing his own fertiliser company, Scotphos Ltd with Gordon Howe in 1991. He has been Technical Director of Carrs Fertilisers since 1995 following their acquisition of Scotphos Ltd, in which capacity he is responsible for new product development and the company’s technical advisory services. Peter’s particular interests are the use of nutrient management planning as a proactive, on-farm management tool to optimise nutrient efficiency and profitability and the continuous improvement of the standard of advice on nutrient management offered by the fertiliser industry. He chaired the AIC Fertiliser Sector Agriculture and Environment Committee from 2002 – 2008 and remains a member of the committee.
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Kevin Moran, Immediate Past President
Kevin Moran obtained his PhD in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry from the University of London in 1974. After a short spell in teaching he joined Phosyn in 1978 as Technical Co-ordinator to develop the R&D, analytical and technical services to support the Company's micronutrient products mainly in Europe and North Africa, and subsequently worldwide. Following the acquisition of Phosyn by Yara International in June 2006 he will maintain a global focus on the role of micronutrients and foliar fertilisers in agricultural production.
Kevin has a number of scientific publications which focus mainly on the development of innovative micronutrient products as well as on Decision Support Systems for optimising the timing and types of applications in fertiliser programmes.
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Philippe Eveillard
Philippe Eveillard joined the French Fertilizer Manufacturers Union, UNIFA, based in Paris, in 2003. Previously he had been an international product manager for the joint SCPA - Tessenderlo Group of companies for ten years.
His focus at UNIFA is on agriculture and the environmental policies with influence on fertilisation. He also manages the statistical department at UNIFA which is officially in charge of collecting all the statistics on the fertiliser business in France. He graduated from the French National Agronomic Institute INA in Paris, and is married with three sons.
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Ernest Kirkby
Ernest Kirkby is a graduate of the University of Durham (Kings College, Newcastle upon Tyne) and a native of the north-east of England. He is now Life Fellow of the University of Leeds where he has devoted most of his academic life to the teaching and research of Plant Nutrition. In this University he also held the posts of Warden of Sadler Hall 1964- 1983, then Warden of Devonshire Hall 1983-1996 and served as an elected member of Senate and Council. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Kentucky USA in 1979, and the University of Malta 1996 and was awarded The Leonard Slater Fellowship at University College University of Durham 1986-1987.
He is the author and co-author of numerous publications in Plant Nutrition but probably is most well known for his co-authorship with Professor Konrad Mengel of the University of Giessen Germany, of the highly respected text, Principles of Plant Nutrition, the fifth edition of which was published in 2001. He served as a long-standing member of the International Council on Plant Nutrition representing the UK and for many years as a member of the editoria boards of the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis.
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Hash Navsaria
Hash Navsaria graduated in Chemical Engineering and Management Economics from the University of Bradford in 1974. He joined Fisons Fertilisers directly from University and is now the Safety Manager for Yara International. Prior to his present position, he held various posts including Process Engineer, Process Control Engineer, Production Manager, HR and HESQ Manager and Operations Manager for Yara UK. In all his positions the 'human factor' has been of key interest and development in improving performance standards in productivity, quality and safety.
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Jaap Schröder
Jaap Schröder is a senior researcher in the Agrosystems Department of Plant Research International, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His work focuses on nutrient fluxes in arable and livestock production systems at scales ranging from fields to regions. Currently he is involved in the definition of meaningful indicators for the environmental pressure of nutrients. As a spin-off from that work he is an active member of various working groups assessing the long-term impact of regulations on crop yields and environmental quality. The results of his work have been published in a substantial number of papers in international journals. The thread running through these papers is that the simultaneous need for food production and ecosystem quality will pose an ever greater number of challenges for producers and consumers of nutrients.
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Mogens Nielsen
Mogens Nielsen graduated as M.Sc. in Agronomy from University of Copenhagen. He is married and has 3 children and lives on a farm with his family in Jutland. He joined the Agricultural Council in Copenhagen direct from the University for a 5 years period. After this Mogens joined the fertiliser world first Norsk Hydro and later Superfos and Kemira in Denmark in several functions in Agronomy and Sales, latest as Sales and Marketing Director. In 2008 Kemira was taken over by Yara and his position today is Coach for Yara in Denmark and MD for Yaras property in Fredericia, responsible for the sale and demolision of the plant after closure. He has for many years been involved in EFMA (Fertilizer Europe) and IFA.
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Maarten Brand
Maarten was born in 1946 and started his professional business career in 1969 with Vulcaan Fertilisers (DSM-Netherlands), then with Agrariche Unie-Vulcaan Fertilisers and ultimately with Triferto. He was head of the purchasing department and responsible for logistics until his early retirement in 2003. In 2004 he became secretary-general of the N.V.B., the Dutch Fertilizer Blenders Association. In 2009 this Association introduced the first Quality Certificate for Fertilizer Blenders in Europe. Since 2007 he has been vicepresident of the E.F.B.A., the European Fertilizer Blenders Association. Also, since 1993 he has been active as politician for the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD), also serving as a Member of Council.
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John Brightling
John Brightling is a Chartered Engineer who joined ICI in 1987 after graduating from Leicester University in the UK with a BSc (Hons) degree in Mechanical engineering. Since 1998 John has worked in the Johnson Matthey catalyst business selling catalysts and plant services to customers in the Ammonia industry worldwide.He is now the responsible for Sales & Marketing in the Ammonia Industry worldwide for Johnson Matthey.
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Allison Grundy
Allison Grundy graduated in 1997 with a BSc Hons degree in Agriculture with a bias in plant science from the University of Central Lancashire. She also holds a Higher National Diploma in Agriculture from Myerscough College. After graduation she worked for the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in its western region at Harper Adams University College (HAUC).
She continued crop science research in the Crop Environment Research Centre at HAUC until joining Kemira Agriculture (now GrowHow UK) in 2001. She is currently the Arable Agronomist for GrowHow UK Ltd where her role consists of managing the arable research and development programme; providing technical support; both internally and externally to customers and developing new and innovative services to support and encourage the best agronomic use of fertiliser on farm. She is the current chair of the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) Agriculture and Environment Committee.
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Pier Luigi Graziano
Pier Luigi Graziano graduated from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1973 with a degree in chemistry. He has been working for 15 years at the faculty of agronomy of the same University on fertiliser related matters. In 1998, with his partner Marino Perelli, he founded Arvan srl, the consulting company for the industries involved in fertiliser production and trade based near Venice and with an office in Bologna, where he lives. Arvan srl also publishes technical books on fertilisers, the collection of national and European fertiliser legislation and a specific magazine on fertilisers, FERTILIZZANTI, of which Pier Luigi is editor.
Pier Luigi is president of the Associazione Italiana Fertilizzanti, AIF, the largest Italian fertiliser manufacturers association, is member of the technical advisory commission for fertilisers of the Italian ministry of agriculture and represents Italy at the European Fertiliser Blenders Association, EFBA.
Pier Luigi has served in the IFS Council from 1999 to 2004 and has been president in 2002/2003.
Main fields of interest: regulatory aspects, fertiliser formulation and by-products recycling.
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Nigel Binns, Secretary to the Society
Nigel Binns is the Managing Director of Pestex Services and lead consultant for Elytra Ltd. With an Honours Degree in Biology and an MBA, he is also a Chartered Biologist. He has worked for nearly 25 years at all levels in the environmental and public health industries, most recently as Business Director for Rentokil Pest Control. His former roles include Technical Manager at the British Pest Control Association and Company Biologist for Killgerm, Europe's major supplier of pest control products. He also sits on several Government committees covering public health and biocidal products.Nigel is also a board member (and former President and Chairman) of the British Pest Control Association (BPCA), and is the Editor of the scientific journal ‘International Pest Control’
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