Dr Jon Knight

Dr Jon Knight is an Independent Agricultural Research Consultant working with a variety of organisations and businesses.  He currently chairs the British Beet Research Organisations Stakeholder Committee, is a non-executive Director of Crover Ltd and Chairs the Pests and Beneficials Group of the BCPC.   He was previously the Head of Crop Health and Protection for the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) and prior to that Head of Research and Development for AHDB Horticulture.

Originally trained as agricultural zoologist with a PhD on Overwintering of Cereal Aphids he worked in the broad area of pest management for 25 years at Imperial College where he taught on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Biology and Environmental Policy.  In 2012 he moved to AHDB to Head of R&D for Horticulture leaving there in 2019.  Research work on over 60 projects over the years has ranged from implementation and management of practical pest control projects both in the UK and overseas to the development of new approaches to Pest Risk Analysis and plant health issues.