Mohamed Bedair is the regulatory compositional biology lead at Bayer Crop Science working on the safety assessment of genetically modified crops. He has a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Oklahoma State University, studied plant metabolomics as a postdoctoral fellow at the Noble Research Institute before joining Bayer in 2011. At Bayer, he held various roles in Crop Science research and development, characterizing new products, understanding mechanism of action, and confirming the safety of new GM crops. He has been a member of the AFSI Crop Composition Database Working Group for the last 5 years.

Muffy Koch is a senior regulatory manager at the J.R. Simplot Company and has 35 years of experience in the regulation and safety assessment of GMOs. She was educated and trained in South Africa, as a botanist and microbiologist. She worked for 8 years as a microbial and plant genetic engineer, for 10 years as a South African interim regulator, for 15 years training regulators internationally in the safety assessment of GMOs, and more recently in Boise, Idaho, helping to confirm the safety of new potato varieties.

Dr. Bhavneet Bajaj is an experienced scientist working at the intersection of science and policy in the Food Systems space. She has led and managed an extensive portfolio of projects including on food and feed safety, biosafety, innovative technologies in agriculture, crop composition, and food and nutrition. In her current position at the Agriculture & Food Systems Institute (AFSI), she uses her expertise to lead international training workshops for risk assessors and regulators in South and Southeast Asia. She has worked on international development projects in South Asia for regulatory harmonization of safety assessment of genetically modified foods and enabling environment for genome editing policies in Bangladesh and the Republic of Korea. She serves as part of the AFSI delegation to the OECD Working Party on the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds. She has expertise working as a developer utilizing biotechnology for creation of improved plant varieties at (the then) DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology, expression analysis of carotenoid biosynthesis pathway in tomatoes at USDA Agricultural Research Service and metabolic profiling of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland. Dr. Bajaj is certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute.