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Jack Payne
Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources
University of Florida


Jack Payne has led IFAS since 2010. In the last five years, he’s kept the organization strong despite lean state budgets and is now coming off a year in which IFAS brought in more than $100 million in research grants and $23 million in private donations and pledges. He is a champion for agricultural research and has lobbied to keep public funding and public attention focused on the need to come up with solutions to citrus greening. His idea to start a global food systems institute to make UF an international leader in food security issues is one of the UF Preeminence campaign’s most prominent initiatives.

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