2017 Election American Society of Plant Biologists Elected Member, Council (to serve 2017–2020) Christine Foyer of agriculture. She also recognizes the need to focus greater research attention on grain legumes to increase the contri- Christine Foyer is Professor of Plant Sciences at the Univer- bution of pulses to global food production and sustainable sity of Leeds in the U.K. Christine obtained her BSc at the University of Portsmouth, and her PhD at Kings College, agriculture and so eradicate hunger and malnutrition. London. She joined the Photosynthesis Research Group at Christine is the General Secretary of the Federation of the University of Sheffield for her postdoctoral research. European Societies of Plant Biologists and a member of the Christine was appointed as Research Director with her French Academy of Agriculture. She is an Associate Editor own group at the French National Institute for Agricultural for Plant, Cell and Environment and the Biochemical Journal. Research (INRA) in Versailles, France in 1998. Christine She received the inaugural Founders Award from Plant then became Head of Department, first at the Institute of Physiology in 2011. She has worked alongside colleagues Grassland and Environmental Research in Wales and then from ASPB in the Global Plant Council and the Society of at the Institute of Arable Crops Research (Rothamsted Re- search) in Harpenden, U.K. She joined Africa College at the Experimental Biology. University of Leeds in April, 2009. Christine is enthusiastic about this opportunity to contrib- Christine has always been fascinated by plant metabolism, ute to ASPB. She believes strongly that ASPB is a flagship particularly reduction/oxidation (redox) biology and asso- organization that promotes excellence in all areas of plant ciated signaling. The goal of her research is to understand science. This is particularly the case in the areas of poli- how primary processes (photosynthesis, respiration) influ- cy and communication, in which ASPB provides timely ence cellular redox processes and so signal changes in en- information for policy and decision makers and also listens vironmental factors to elicit appropriate responses under- to and informs the public. Crucially, Christine sees ASPB pinning acclimation/adaptation to fluctuating conditions. as the go-to honest broker of information in the on-going Christine considers the identification of climate-resilient debate concerning the key role plant science research plays species and nutrient-use efficient cultivars key to the future in global food and energy security. .