Christel Wake

Biography

Christel has over 25 years of experience in agriscience, working for both government and industry, and she specialises in residues in food and dietary risk assessment. She started her career working for the Central Science Laboratory, an executive agency of DEFRA (now Fera Science), where she developed a HPLC-MS/MS multiresidue method to determine pesticide residues in food. She later joined the UK regulatory authority responsible for the regulation of pesticides, and has represented the UK as a technical expert at a range of EC and EFSA meetings, in addition to delivering training on pesticide chemistry, residues and dietary risk assessment to industry and members of EU pre-accession countries. She has also provided technical support to the UK pesticide residue monitoring programs, interpretation of the significance of the results and assistance in the development and planning of future surveys. Since 2011, she has held various regulatory and scientific leadership roles with market leading agrochemical companies. Christel has a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry and a MSC in Chemistry (by Research) from the University of York.