Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, Canadian Plains Research Center.

Senior research associate of the Estey Centre for Law and Economics in International Trade, Saskatoon.

Member, Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee (1999-); Co-chair of the subcommittee investigating the Regulation of GM Foods (2000-2003); member of executive committee (2003-).

Member, NAFTA CEC Chapter 13 Expert Panel on Transgenic Maize in Mexico (2002-4).

Founding Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Agri-food Policy Institute (CAPI) (2004-5), Ottawa, an endowed national agricultural policy institute.

Fellow, The Centre for Innovation Studies (THECIS), Calgary (2003-)

Member, Board of Directors, Pharmalytics Inc., Saskatoon: Pharmalytics is a small, not-for-profit corporation, wholly owned by the University of Saskatchewan, which undertakes contract research and drug clinical trials (2003-).

Founding member of and active participant in the International Consortia on Agricultural Biotechnology Research based in Rome, Italy (1998-).

Member, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium

Member and former director (2002-5) of the virtual College of Biotechnology, University of Saskatchewan

Member, editorial board, AgBioForum

Member, editorial board, Innovation Strategy Today