Leo den Hartog
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Leo den Hartog is Director R&D and Quality Affairs of Nutreco
Leo den Hartog (53) was born on a farm in West-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. After his study at the Wageningen University he started his career at the Reference Centre for Pig and Poultry Husbandry in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He then joined the Department of Animal Nutrition of the Wageningen University for nine years, and lectured at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Arnhem. In the same period he finished his PhD. thesis and worked for one year at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
In 1989 Leo den Hartog was appointed director of the Research Institute of Pig Husbandry in Rosmalen. As a change manager in 1997 he coordinated the merger and privatization of the Animal Husbandry Research Institute in Lelystad, which later became part of the Wageningen University. At this institute he was appointed director of Research and Extension.
In 2001 Leo den Hartog switched to the private sector and started working for Nutreco as Director R&D. At the same time he was named professor ‘Business Development in Animal Husbandry’ at the Wageningen University. At Nutreco he took also the responsibility for Quality Affairs, next to R&D.
In 1989 Leo den Hartog received the Henneberg Lehmann research award of the University of Göttingen (Germany). In 1999 he received an honorary doctorate at the University of Kaposvar (Hungary). He has given more than 400 lectures in approx. 35 countries for politicians, scientists, agricultural specialists and primairy producers. Leo den Hartog is author of 400 publications and seven books. He has chaired five trade missions for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV), to China, Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Chili and South Africa.