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Dr John Strak B.Sc. Hons.(Agric), M.A.(Econ) Ph.D.

 

Profile

  • 25 years experience as an economist specialising in market analysis and regulatory problems in the agri-food and drink sector
  • Executive Chairman of Euro PA Services Ltd based in the UK 
  • Managing Director of FoodEast Ltd  
  • Executive Editor of Whole Hog Brief  
  • Special Lecturer School of Economics University of Nottingham , Economics of the Food Industry module
  • Clients and consulting projects include work for major UK food and drink companies, and producer and trade associations in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Australasia
  • Work for UK and EU organisations including sector skills councils Lantra and Improve; UK levy bodies MLC, MDC, HGCA, PMB, BPEX, NPA, TFTA, WDA, Scottish Enterprise, HIE, NHP, and EFFP; govt. bodies EEDA, Defra, DG Agri, DG Enterprise.   
  • Led the team which won the British Consultants Bureau award for Best Small Consultancy in Britain in 1997/98

Experience

  • Since 1991 work on market and international trade issues that concern the global food and drink industry in Euro Analysis and then Euro PA Services Ltd
  • Chief Economist at the International Wool Secretariat’s London Headquarters (1988-91)

  • Special Adviser UK Houses of Parliament on agri-food policy issues (1987-92)
  • Sabbatical at National Economic Development Office, London (1987)
  • Lecturer, University of Manchester (1980-88)

Speciality

  • Market access, brand building, and export supply chain development 
  • Strategic analysis and evaluation of corporate performance and R&D programmes 
  • Evaluation and design of market information programmes and investment feasibility for food and drink products in domestic and foreign markets
  • Analysis, design and implementation of skills needs analysis and technology transfer programmes
  • Deregulation of agricultural and food trade policies in Europe
  • Advice on the negotiation of bilateral trade polices with the EU (including IPR)
  • Expert witness in legal disputes held in the High Court in London and the WTO Disputes Settlement Body in Geneva

John Strak’s CV provides further details of his experience