(CBE, DL, BSc, PhD, CSci, FIFST, FIFT, FIAFST, FRSA)

Appointed Governor December 2009.

Colin Dennis has retired as Director-General of Campden BRI, formerly Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association Group, headquartered in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.

Prior to moving to Chipping Campden in 1981, he worked for 11 years at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, including a period on secondment at the Norwegian Food Research Institute near Oslo. During his 21 years as Director-General of Campden BRI the business grew from c.£2.5m in 1988 to over £18.25m in 2008 with over 2000 clients in over 60 countries and now employs 385 staff.

He was appointed a Governor at the Royal Agricultural College in 2009 and has been a Visiting Professor since 2007. He serves as a Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire, is a Board Member of the National Skills Academy, the Countryside and Community Research Institute and has been a Non Executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service. He has also served on several Government and Industry Advisory Committees in the UK and overseas, including Australia, USA and Abu Dhabi, and was elected Chairman of the IATC's Industry Advisory Group in July 2009.

Colin's leadership in Food Science and Technology has been recognised internationally by his election in 2001 as a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists in the USA and as a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology. He has just completed a two year term as the Chair of the Scientific Council of the International Union of Food Science and Technology.

He graduated from Sheffield University with 1st Class Honours in Botany and Biochemistry where he subsequently did a PhD in Mycology.

Colin was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the agri-food industry in the 2009 New Year Honours List.

He currently sits on the School of Agriculture Advisory Board and is a Pension Trustee.