Leaver has a career spanning 20 years in dairy research and 20 years in agricultural education. He retired in 2007 as principal and chief executive of the Royal Agricultural College, prior to which he was professor of agriculture at Wye College, University of London and Imperial College.
He is current chairman of the RASE’s Practice with Science Group, president of the British Institute of Agricultural Consultants (BIAC), a member of the government chief scientific adviser’s Food Research Partnership, and also of the Commercial Farmers Group.
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