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Bruce Dale Invited to Join International Policy Group’s Steering Committee

Bruce Dale, University Distinguished Professor of chemical engineering and materials science and associate director of the MSU Office of Biobased Technologies, is internationally known for his biofuel research. Now the world is looking to him to learn how biofuels will affect agricultural production, climate change and trade policies.

 

The Geneva-based International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) has invited Dale to join the group's steering committee as it creates a series of white papers on climate change, agriculture and trade. Accredited by the United Nations and World Trade Organization, the ICTSD consults for and participates in many conferences and other activities sponsored by those organizations.

"I'm the only technical person on the steering committee," said Dale. "It's a very diverse, very international group. The ICTSD invited me to be a member because of my expertise in second-generation biofuels, biofuel life cycle analysis and the carbon consequences of new agricultural practices to produce biofuel raw materials."

"I'm looking forward to participating," Dale said. "It gives me a chance to share MSU research with the world and show how MSU's biofuel research has global implications."

Visit MSU's Engineering website to read the announcement