Bragato Research Institute (BRI) has announced the appointment of Dr Juliet Ansell as CEO.
Ansell comes to BRI from her current role as Head of Core and Resilience Innovation at Zespri with Bragato Chair, Mark Gilbert, saying: “Juliet is a skilled science leader, bringing a wealth of experience in research and innovation to lead BRI in its next phase of accelerating research and innovation for the New Zealand wine industry.”
Ansell trained at Kings College London and has a PhD from Oxford University.
She has lived and worked as a scientist in the UK, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Australia before taking up a role at Plant & Food Research in New Zealand.
In that role, Ansell led major research programmes with government and industry support involving lab-based research and human clinical trial work.
She was seconded to Zespri in 2014 as Innovation Leader, initially working on human health and nutrition, delivering scientific substantiation of health communications and claims to marketing, before taking up the role of Head of Core and Resilience Innovation.
She has been an elected member of the Executive Council of AgriTechNZ representing Major Corporates.
Ansell will be relocating to Marlborough for the role, with her appointment effective from 15 July 2024.
She says she is looking forward to working with the wine industry, making new connections, meeting new people, and getting to spend more time in Marlborough and other wine regions of New Zealand.
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