date:May 10, 2012
Tim Bennett has been serving as the interim Deputy Chair of the FSA since May 2011 and has been a Board member since March 2008. He was Deputy President and then President of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales between 1998 and 2006.
Edinburgh-based Jim Wildgoose was a career civil servant for 34 years in London and Edinburgh. While Head of Food Safety, Animal Health and Welfare Division in the Scottish Office and then Executive, he was responsible for the setting up of the Food Sta