Joshua VanDeWalle is the North American Lead of Global Food Chain Partnerships for Bayer US – Crop Science. He cultivates and leads strategic relationships with major food processors and retailers across fruit, vegetable and grain/protein value chains to create shared value and earn license to operate. Joshua develops partnerships with the food value chain to advance Bayer’s sustainability commitments and support development of new value pool business opportunities. He supports the advocacy goals of Crop Science to connect innovation and farmer customer needs to sustainable development goals in collaboration with the food value chain.