He worked to establish OECD’s Programme on the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds and the establishment of its Working Group. The outputs of this Working Group are also consensus documents which are complementary to those of the environmental consensus documents, however, they focus on food/ feed safety issues relevant to risk assessment.
Peter also managed OECD’s Nanosafety Programme and its Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials. He was also responsible for OECD’s programme on Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness and Response.
During 2020-2021 he has worked primarily with an organisation, Re-Imagine Europa (RIE), which is a Brussels based ‘think tank’ founded by the former (late) French president, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. He is working with RIE on a project on sustainable agriculture and innovation, which is currently developing policy options for genome editing in the EU.
Peter has a PhD in Genetics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Darwin College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Biology and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Entomology. He is a visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. A full list of publications is available on ResearchGate.