Jochen Koester is managing director of AgroTrace, a Geneva-based classical broker firm serving the global trade of GMO-free agricultural raw materials and non-perishables. Since 1998, he has been intensively involved in non-GMO production, certification, analytics, distribution and the relevant legal regulations – especially during his many years of professional experience abroad, especially in the U.S.A. and in Brazil. He is well connected in these two and in other important leading countries of raw materials and an expert of the soybean industries also in India and Canada.

A ProTerra Board member since 2012 and a fully qualified lawyer, he has been involved in the evolution of sustainable and responsible soy production since the late 1990s. He is a co-founder of VLOG in Germany and served on that Board for ten years from its inception in 2010 when he shifted to VLOG’s Advisory Council.