Michael Schwall

Biography

Dr. Michael Schwall is a Senior Consultant at Bayer Foundation supporting the initiation and management of Health- Agriculture- and Women Empowerment Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. For more than 20 years he was working at Bayer AG in various business functions and had been active in developing business strategies for Africa. He started his carrier as a plant physiologist and a plant biotechnologist at the University of Freiburg and at the University of Adelaide. After managing several startup companies in plant biotechnology and vegetable seeds Michael worked for a German company as a biotechnologist and a breeder in maize, vegetable and canola.
When joining Bayer, he was working in chemical research, global regulatory affairs and marketing in Germany and the USA.