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Melinda Kliegman holds a Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University. Before joining the IGI, she worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she was a Fellow in Global Policy and Advocacy, advising on the use of genome editing in agriculture and human health. In an earlier role at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Melinda served as a Science Advisor to the Foreign Agricultural Service, where she helped design and fund international trade programs and worked with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on international policy around plant biotechnology.