Banks Baker is Global Director of Product Sustainability for PIC, a global animal genetics and biotechnology company. He is responsible for the global introduction and launch of one of the first gene edits for commercial livestock, a pig that is resistant to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus.

Banks supports genetic improvement and gene editing as a way to continually improve animal agriculture and provide holistic benefits across the value chain, including improved animal welfare, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and more efficient protein production.

Previously, Banks led protein sustainability for McDonald’s USA, creating and implementing greenhouse gas reduction strategies and managing animal health and welfare commitments and antibiotic policies.

Banks has an undergraduate business degree from Warren Wilson College and holds master’s degrees in agriculture and business from Colorado State University and The University of Notre Dame.