Cherie Tan is Head of Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability, Asia Pacific for Bayer Crop Science and a member of the APAC Crop Science Leadership Team. She leads a regional team focused on policy, stakeholder relations and sustainability to secure the company's license to operate and enable business growth and performance in the Asia Pacific region.

Bayer is the world's leading agriculture enterprise with crop protection, seeds, and digital farming businesses. The company is committed to a vision of "Health for all, Hunger for none", to a world where biodiversity thrives in harmony with humankind, where farms are more sustainable, and with plants that are more adaptive and resilient.

Cherie brings over 20 years of managing corporate reputational risks, building private-public partnerships and strengthening engagement with government and NGO stakeholders across diverse issues, which she gained while working in Agriculture supply chains, finance, sustainability and smallholder program development. She has also managed relationships with large agri-conglomerates, supported rural ag-cooperatives with microfinancing, and developed partnerships with rural farming communities.

She held previous roles as Vice President and Communications at Asia Pacific Rayon,Director of Unilever's sustainable sourcing and smallholder livelihoods initiatives, Global Palm Oil advocacy leader at WWF International, and senior relationship manager at Rabobank.

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