22 Facts About Cary Fowler

Cary Fowler was previously executive director of the Crop Trust.

Cary Fowler was present at the Mason Temple on April 3,1968, when Martin Luther King Jr.

Cary Fowler led the International Conference and Programme on Plant Genetic Resources at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the 1990s.

Cary Fowler subsequently supervised the negotiations that led to its adoption by 150 countries in 1996.

From 1996 to 2001, Cary Fowler represented the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in negotiations for the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources.

In 2013, Cary Fowler was elected to Membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences, which carries the title of Academician.

Cary Fowler is one of two foreign members of the Academy.

Cary Fowler has previously served as a Special Assistant to the Secretary General of the World Food Summit, as a board member of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, as the chair of the board of The Livestock Conservancy, as a member of the Seed Savers Exchange board, and as a member of the National Plant Genetic Resources Board of the US Cary Fowler is a member of the New York Botanical Garden Corporation.

Cary Fowler served as the Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust from 2005 to 2012.

Cary Fowler stepped down as Executive Director of the Crop Trust in late 2012.

Cary Fowler has received several honorary degrees, including an Honorary Doctorate of Law degree from Simon Fraser University, an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Rhodes College, an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree from Oberlin College, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Cary Fowler received the Right Livelihood Award with Pat Mooney in 1985 for his work in agriculture and the preservation of biodiversity.

Cary Fowler has received the Vavilov Medal from the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Cary Fowler was the baccalaureate speaker at the 2013 Rhodes College commencement ceremonies and received the 2015 William L Brown Award for Excellence in Genetic Resource Conservation from the Missouri Botanical Garden.

In 2016 Fowler received the Frank N Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources, given by the Crop Science Society of America.

Cary Fowler received the 2018 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Citizen Leadership, awarded jointly by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and gave the keynote address at Monticello on the occasion of Jefferson's 275th birthday.

At a May 9,2024 ceremony at the US Department of State, the World Food Prize Foundation announced that Cary Fowler had been selected as a 2024 World Food Prize Laureate, alongside Dr Geoffrey Hawtin, for their work on seed genetics and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Cary Fowler has made many media appearances, including the CBS news show 60 Minutes.

Cary Fowler was the focus of the award-winning 2013 documentary Seeds of Time.

Cary Fowler was featured in the 2013 documentary Seed Battles.

In 2012, Cary Fowler married author, gardener, and seed saving advocate Amy Goldman.

Cary Fowler has two children and is a melanoma and testicular cancer survivor.