Vet becomes FSA's deputy chair

Dr Ian Reynolds​ has been appointed the new deputy chair at the Food Standards Agency (FSA), replacing Julia Unwin who hasbecome director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Reynolds (55), who gained his PhD in animal endocrinology and haspublished in the field of drug residues in meat, has been a board member at the FSA since May 2006. He is a former employee of Glaxo and Cyanamid where he worked in business development and regulatory affairs. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and also a qualified vet.

Since 1998 he has been a self-employed consultant.

“I am hugely excited by this new opportunity," said Reynolds. "The FSA is an organisation I have come to know well and admire in the last eight months and I am looking forward to working both with the board and the executive in this role. Food issues are at the topof the nation’s agenda and I have been very impressed by the workthe Agency has done on food safety and nutrition.”

FSA chair Dame Deirdre Hutton said: “I am delighted Ian is joining us as Deputy Chair. His scientific and business background will be an invaluable asset to the Agency.”