Alumni
Past board member
Based In
Gainesville, Florida (USA)
Rose Koenig is the interim director for the Global office for the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS Global) and a lecturer at the University of Florida. She has previously served as a co-director of the university’s Center for Organic Agriculture and also operated a 17-acre organic farm with one of the state’s first Community Supported Agriculture programs. Previously, she worked with the Rodale Institute in Africa. Koenig holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, a master’s degree in international agricultural development from UC Davis, and a Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Florida. She conducted her doctoral research on the fungus that causes Panama's Disease in Honduras.