Dr Steve Jefferies

Dr Steve Jefferies is Principal of Jefferies Ag Solutions which provides consultancy services to agribusinesses. Prior to this Steve was Managing Director of GRDC from 2016 to 2020. From 2002 to 2016, Steve was the inaugural CEO of AGT, Australia’s largest and market leading plant breeding company. From 1996 to 2002 Steve was an academic in crop genetics at University of Adelaide. 

Steve is Chairman of Rice Breeding Australia and Non-Executive Director of APVMA and Grain Producers SA and previously Birchip Cropping Group and Barley Australia. 

In 2016 Steve was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia. In 2020 Steve was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) and in 2021 Steve was awarded a Doctorate of Science (honoris causa) from the University of Adelaide for eminence in plant breeding.