Rick Gilmore

Johns Hopkins, SAIS: Global Food Safety: The Challenge As Seen through the Lens of Health, Financial, Trade and Security Risks, September 29, 2014.

Keynote Speaker, 2014 Agriculture and Food Expo, Harbin, China: September 12, 2014

USDA, Food Safety and Its Global Consequences, August 25, 2014.

Council on Foreign Relations- Moderator and Presenter/Roundtable- Global Food Safety: Managing Health, Financial, Trade and Security Risks, May, 2014.

2013 Georgia Green Economy Summit, Carbon Financing and Trading: A New Risk Mitigation Strategy, September 25, 2014.

Speech, Supply Chains that Create Value and Reduce Waste, International Food and Agribusiness Management, June 19, 2013.

Keynote Speaker, Investment Summit for Food Safety Technologies, Global Food Safety Forum, Beijing, June 27, 2012.

Speech, USDA/NIFA: A Carbon Strategy for Agriculture in a Challenging Market, May 1, 2012.

CPC/ Climate Change Workshops: TCX/CBEX, September, 2012

Professor, SAIS, Bologna: Global Agriculture in the 21st Century, May, 2012.

SAIS course: Global Agriculture in the 21st Century, January–February, 2012.

Speech, FSMA and Third-Party Accreditation, FSMA Import Regulations, Food Chemical News, December 4, 2011-12.

Interview, Venture Equity/Latin America, September, 2010.

Interview, White House Chronicle/PBS and XM, on food safety, April 10, 2009.

Regular commentator, CNBC Squawk Box Asia and U.S. with recent interviews on commodity prices, biofuels, food safety, and carbon credit instruments, 2008-2011.

“Global Food Security Issues,” speech presented to Ford Fellows of the Global Scholars Program, The Washington Center, Washington, DC, September 29, 2008.

"The Global Commodity Picture: New Industry Drivers," speaker at Commodities Portfolio Management 2008 conference, Boston, September 16, 2008.

Chairman, Soft and Agricultural Commodities Investment Asia conference, Singapore, September 3–4, 2008.

NBC, Today Show interview on commodity prices, June 16, 2008.

Reuters interview broadcast, June 18, 2008: SAT 1 (Germany), RTL (Germany), TVB (China), N24 (Germany), Nippon TV (Japan), N-TV (Russia), TV-2 (Norway), KBS1 (South Korea), BBC Arabic, France 2, Sky News (UK), Deutsche Welle (Germany), TV Tokyo (Japan) and TRT International (Turkey).

Speech, Latin America Private Equity World, Miami, July 5, 2008.

"Sector-Specific Opportunities in Latin America." Speech at Latin America Private Equity World, Miami, July 5, 2008.

"Midwest Floods Pushing Up Already Soaring Prices." Interview, Reuters, June 17, 2008.

"Rising Water, Rising Food Prices," Interview with Richard Gilmore, Agribusiness Expert, for the Today Show, msnbc.com, June 2008.

"Ag Commodity Markets and Food Prices." Interview, White House Chronicle, PBS, June 1, 2008.

"Market Dynamics and Pricing of Biofuels." Speech at Biofuels Development Summit, May 15, 2008.

"Venture Capitalism in the Agro Sector," in Inside the Minds: The Roles and Motivations of Key Players in Venture Capital Deals, Aspatore Books, 2007.

"Get Ready for Health Wars," in Barron's, November 7, 2005.

Panel Moderator: "Ag Biotech IP: Progress and Challenges Ahead," BIO International Conference 2005.

"U.S. Food Safety under Siege?" in Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 22, Number 12, December 2004, p. 1503–1505

"Ag biotech and world food security—threat or boon?" in Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 18, Issue 4, April 2000, p. 361.

"A Breakthrough for World Agriculture?" in Voice, Japan, November 10, 1999.

Contributor, National Policy Association and Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA, "Competition, Cooperation, and Competitive Advantage," in The Future Stakes for U.S. Food and Agriculture in East and Southeast Asia, NPA Report #291, 1999.

"Competition, Cooperation, and Competitive Advantage," in The Future Stakes for U.S. Food and Agriculture in East and Southeast Asia, National Policy Association and US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture Service, 1999.

Contributor, Institute for International Economics. Monograph on trade issues for the next round of international agricultural trade negotiations, 1997.

"Food and Agriculture Companies," in Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Presentation, "How to do Business in India," The MegaShow/FPM&SA, November 1995.

Presentation, Congress of the World Union of Wholesale Markets, September 1995.

Visiting Lecturer, Agrarian Institute of Russia, January 1993.

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Economics, Moscow State University, January 1993.

"World Agriculture without GATT," Choices, Second Quarter 1991.

"Trade Liberalization and Agricultural Prosperity," Newsweek International, October 31, 1988.

"Faces behind the Figures," Forbes Magazine, July 14, 1986.

"International Food Security: The Challenge Ahead," co-author with Barbara Huddleston of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Food Policy, London, February 1983, vol. 8, issue 1, pages 31-45.

A Poor Harvest: The Clash of Policies and Interests in the Grain Trade (Longman, New York: 1982; TBS Britannica, Tokyo: 1982).

"National Food Stabilization--At What Price?" Trends, U.S. Information Agency, February 1981.

Weekly Commentator on Commodity Markets, "Take Two," CNN, 1981-83.

"Grain in the Bank," Foreign Policy, No. 38 (Spring, 1980), published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, pp. 168–181.

"Grain in the Bank," Politique Etrangere, Fall 1980.

"Wheat and Coarse Grains--Stabilization or Status Quo?" in, eds., G. Goodwin and J. Mayall, A New International Commodity Regime, Croom Helm Ltd., 1979.

Visiting Lecturer on Agribusiness, University of Aix-en-Provence, Department of Economics and Chaine 2, French Television, 1979.

Gilmore is on the Board of Investment Circle (Swiss investment group); Volta Rapids Tilapia, Ltd. (aquaculture facility in Ghana); Simplum Group, Ltd. (food safety tracing technology company headquartered in Germany). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Advisory Board of NESsT, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, the Johns Hopkins SAIS Advisory Council, and the Science Advisory Board of the Conservation Law Foundation. He was a member of the President's Business Development Council during the Clinton Administration and is now Chairman Emeritus of the Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations, having previously served as Chairman since its inception in 1977.

Richard Gilmore (born 1943 in New York, New York) is President/CEO of GIC Trade, Inc. (the GIC Group), an international agribusiness company with partner offices in Beijing, São Paulo, Quito, Moscow, and Tel Aviv. He is also Founder and Chairman of the Global Food Safety Forum (GFSF), a non-profit industry organization focused on educational and training activities in Asia with offices in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Vietnam. A trade economist and businessman with a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, where he was a Fulbright Fellow, Gilmore served as Trustee for Bayer CropSciences, Syngenta Corporation, and Agrium, Inc. He is currently Trustee in the U.S. and Canada for Nutrien. He also served as Special External Advisor to the White House/USAID for the Private Sector/Global Food Security and Managing Director of the Global Food Safety Forum (GFSF) in Beijing. Gilmore developed two agro-carbon instruments: Commodity Plus Carbon (CPC)and GIC Ag Carbon Intensity Index (GIC ACH).