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Greg Conko Biography
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Gregory Conko is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Food Safety
Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, DC-based
public interest group. His research at CEI focuses on issues of
food and pharmaceutical drug safety regulation, and on the general
treatment of health risks in public policy. He is particularly interested
in the debate over the safety of bioengineered foods and the application
of the Precautionary Principle to domestic and international environmental
and safety regulations.
Mr. Conko is also the Vice President and a member of the Board
of Directors of the AgBioWorld Foundation, a non-profit organization
he co-founded in 2000 with Tuskegee University plant genetics professor
C.S. Prakash. The AgBioWorld Foundation provides information to
teachers, journalists, policymakers, and the general public about
developments in plant science, biotechnology, and sustainable agriculture.
Mr. Conko's book, The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics
Threaten the Biotech Revolution (Praeger, 2004), co-authored
with Henry I. Miller, was named by
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Barron’s as one of the 25 best books of 2004. He also served as a principal
investigator for the California Council on Science and Technology’s
2002 report, Benefits and Risks of Food Biotechnology. His other
writings have appeared in such journals as Nature Biotechnology, Transgenic
Research, the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, Regulation,
and European Affairs, and in such newspapers as the Financial
Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco
Chronicle. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs
as a commentator on public health and consumer safety issues, and he frequently
participates in international meetings on food safety and trade as a credentialed
Non-Governmental Organization representative.
Prior to joining CEI in 1994, Mr. Conko was a Research Associate with
the Capital Research Center in Washington. He graduated from the American
University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History,
and he is currently pursuing a Juris Doctorate degree at the George Mason
University School of Law.
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