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Rotary
International Birmingham Convention
REMaRAG
was at STAND 380 in the
House of Friendship
Our Annual General
Meeting with Frédéric
Baur as guest speaker took
place on
WEDNESDAY
24th JUNE
11.30
- 12.30
Regrettably
for the first time ever attendance at our
AGM was very sparse, usually we have
to close the doors on 100+ This year
our meeting coincided with a Plenary
session and the location of our breakout
room was a good 15 minute walk away from
the H of F and not the easiest of
routes. Nevertheless Frédéric gave
us plenty to think about for the future
and our working relationship with Syngenta
augurs well for the future.
Frédéric
Baur is a fellow from the
Mulhouse Rotary Club (D. 1680). He was
invited to join in 2008 with the objective
of kicking-off a community based project
for malaria prevention. He is French and
grew up in Dakar, Senegal where he caught
malaria, as many children there. He is
currently Global Head of Vector Control
for Syngenta since January 2008. For
Syngenta and previously Novartis Crop
Protection, he was Business lead for fruit
and vegetable crops for the region Europe
/ Africa / Middle-East (2004-2007), Head
of Marketing Germany (2002-2004), Head of
Marketing Korea (1998-2002) and marketing
manager insecticides for Latin America
(1996-1998). From 1984 to 1988, he was
Operation Director for a French cotton
company in Togo and Zaire.
He
holds a master in Agronomy from Gembloux
University in Belgium and is married to
Juliet who is English. They have a son of 14
and daughter of 12. The family lives in
France, in the Switzerland and Germany
border region and Frédéric works in
Basel, Switzerland.
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