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Nathalie DiNicola

Nathalie DiNicola
Director, Technology International Development
Monsanto
St. Louis, USA

Natalie DiNicola has worked with Monsanto for seven years.  She currently serves as the Director of International Development Partnerships leading efforts to ensure smallholder farmer access to improved agricultural technologies, including the company’s drought tolerance traits, through humanitarian channels in developing countries.

Prior to that position, she served as Environmental Stewardship Lead with responsibility to coordinate issues such as Insect Resistance and Weed Resistance Management strategies across different crops and geographies.  She has also worked on projects to harmonize global regulatory structures and promote biotechnology acceptance, and served within Monsanto State and Local Government Affairs with responsibility to oversee legislation and regulations affecting the chemical, seed and pharmaceutical businesses.  Natalie also serves on Monsanto’s Political Action Committee (PAC) to review corporate support of political candidates and raise internal support for PAC donations.

Prior to her employment with Monsanto, Natalie served as the 1996 Federation of Animal Sciences Societies Congressional Science fellow in Washington D.C. where she worked for Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) on agriculture and environment-related issues and focused on the use of science in policy making.  She continued working as the Congressman’s legislative assistant for three years before moving to Monsanto.

She received her B.A. in Biology and Environmental Biology from St. Mary’s College in 1989 and her Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995.  Natalie is involved in Monsanto’s United Way activities including membership in the Women’s Leadership Initiative and the launch of Monsanto’s United Way auction, and she participates in the Rebuilding St. Louis program.