Helen Browning OBE (chair)

Helen Browning, who was awarded an OBE in 1998 for services to organic farming, runs a 1350 acre organic livestock and arable farm in Wiltshire which supplies organic meat to multiple retailers. Helen has worked with many food and farming organisations over the last twenty years. She is currently Director of the Soil Association. Her prior roles include Food and Farming Director and then Policy Advisor of the Soil Association (until March 2010), and External Affairs Director at the National Trust. She was chair of the England Animal Health and Welfare Implementation Group throughout its life (2005-09), a member of the Government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (‘the Curry Commission’), a member of the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission (AEBC) until it disbanded in April 2005, and a member of the Meat and Livestock Commission until its end.