Murray McLaughlin, PhD, is the president of McLaughlin Consultants and an advisor to Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) and Forest Products Innovation (FPI). He earned his BSc from McGill Univ. and his PhD from Cornell Univ., both in agriculture. From 2010 to 2016, he was the executive director of BIC and the Sustainable Chemistry Alliance in Sarnia, Ontario. McLaughlin has held various positions, including the Director of Business Development for the Canadian Light Source, president of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies, Deputy Minister of Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food, and president of Ag-West Biotech, Inc. He was the recipient of the LSO Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 and was recognized as a global leader in the advanced bio-economy at the Biofuels Digest Conference in 2016.