Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is pleased to welcome Mary Shelman, a globally-recognized expert on agribusiness and an ECTC Distinguished Alumni, to speak as part of its LEAF-STEM series. LEAF-STEM is an ECTC science and math initiative designed to enhance awareness through “Lectures & Exploration Activities For Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.”
Shelman will offer a talk called “From Drones to Genes: STEM’s expanding role in food and agriculture” on Wednesday, March 9 at 6 p.m. in room 212 of the college’ Regional Postsecondary Center (RPC). This lecture is free and open to the public. She will also speak to several high school groups throughout the day, and ECTC students in small groups that afternoon.
From her childhood years in Elizabethtown, working in her father’s farm equipment dealership, to her position as Chairman of the Board of a major U.S. seed company, to her decades of industry research at Harvard University, Mary Shelman has a rich, varied, and unique perspective on agribusiness.
A recognized thought leader on the global agri-food system, Mary is the former Director and currently an Advisor to the Agribusiness Program at Harvard Business School. She is the author of more than 60 case studies, has been published in Harvard Business Review, Market Leader, and the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, and teaches in graduate and executive courses around the world.
She serves on the advisory boards of the African Agribusiness Consortium, the International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks, and the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) where she is a past president.
Additionally, Mary selectively works with companies and governments as a strategic advisor and board member. She spent a decade as Chairman of the Board of Ricetec, Inc., now the largest U.S. rice seed company, served on the boards of RiceTec AG and Stiftung Fürst Liechtenstein (Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation), and is currently a Board Director of Cook Simple and Fractal Antenna Systems. She has also advised the Irish government on the strategic direction of the country’s food industry, co-authoring Pathways for Growth which led to the creation of the world’s first country brand based on sustainability.
Mary holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She received the Tradition of Excellence Alumni Award from Elizabethtown Independent Schools and was recognized as a Distinguished Alumni of ECTC in 2009.
For more information, contact Paul Sturgeon at 270-706-8639 or paul.sturgeon@kctcs.edu
Shelman will offer a talk called “From Drones to Genes: STEM’s expanding role in food and agriculture” on Wednesday, March 9 at 6 p.m. in room 212 of the college’ Regional Postsecondary Center (RPC). This lecture is free and open to the public. She will also speak to several high school groups throughout the day, and ECTC students in small groups that afternoon.
From her childhood years in Elizabethtown, working in her father’s farm equipment dealership, to her position as Chairman of the Board of a major U.S. seed company, to her decades of industry research at Harvard University, Mary Shelman has a rich, varied, and unique perspective on agribusiness.
A recognized thought leader on the global agri-food system, Mary is the former Director and currently an Advisor to the Agribusiness Program at Harvard Business School. She is the author of more than 60 case studies, has been published in Harvard Business Review, Market Leader, and the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, and teaches in graduate and executive courses around the world.
She serves on the advisory boards of the African Agribusiness Consortium, the International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks, and the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) where she is a past president.
Additionally, Mary selectively works with companies and governments as a strategic advisor and board member. She spent a decade as Chairman of the Board of Ricetec, Inc., now the largest U.S. rice seed company, served on the boards of RiceTec AG and Stiftung Fürst Liechtenstein (Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation), and is currently a Board Director of Cook Simple and Fractal Antenna Systems. She has also advised the Irish government on the strategic direction of the country’s food industry, co-authoring Pathways for Growth which led to the creation of the world’s first country brand based on sustainability.
Mary holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She received the Tradition of Excellence Alumni Award from Elizabethtown Independent Schools and was recognized as a Distinguished Alumni of ECTC in 2009.
For more information, contact Paul Sturgeon at 270-706-8639 or paul.sturgeon@kctcs.edu