Dr. Robin Woo is a Senior Policy Analyst for the Office of Constituent Operations in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the US Food and Drug Administration where she is responsible for coordinating international technical assistance. She is an active member of the Association of Food and Drug Officials' (AFDO) Subcommittee on Food Export Certificates, International and Government Relations Committee.

Before joining the FDA, Dr. Woo was Director of the Ceres Forum, a neutral platform for discussion of complex issues in food and nutrition policy for government, industry, academia and consumer groups. From 1992-2001, as Research Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, Dr. Woo mentored graduate students and taught seminars on "Biotechnology and Public Policy" and on food safety and nutrition topics.

On sabbatical in 2001 at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in Costa Rica, she created an innovative training series on Executive Leadership in Food Safety for the developing world, beginning with Latin America. Dr. Woo has been deeply involved in enhancing science communication for over 20 years, previously serving as Director of Meetings for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and managing program development for the UCLA Symposia in Molecular and Cellular Biology, which annually attracted 10,000 scientists to the ski slopes.

A member of USDA's former Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee, Dr. Woo currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Graduate Women in Science, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of Sigma Xi. She received a BS in anthropology and PhD in developmental biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her UCLA postdoctoral research focused on cellular biochemistry; and she received an Executive MBA from UCLA. Dr. Woo has lectured extensively in the effort to increase public understanding of agricultural biotechnology and has authored many conference proceedings and research papers on diverse topics--including food safety, growth factors, insect physiology, plant ecology, and pediatric dietary policy.