Simone Pfuderer. Address: 12 Kexby Avenue, York, YO10 3HF, UK

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1 Simone Pfuderer Address: 12 Kexby Avenue, York, YO10 3HF, UK Tel: ++44 (0) Date of Birth: 10 Nov Nationality: German EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS BSc in Technology Open University, UK (part-time) February 2004 to October 2009 Modules included: Energy for a Sustainable Future; Environmental Valuation and Policy Grade: First-class Honours Diploma in Environment and Development Open University, UK (part-time) Awarded December 2008 Modules: International Development; Environment Diploma in Pollution Control Open University, UK (part-time) Awarded December 2006 Modules: Environmental Control and Public Health; Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Control MSc in Official Statistics University of Southampton, UK (part-time) October 1999 to January 2005 Modules included: Survey Methods II (Data Collection); Statistical Computing; Data Analysis I (Regression Modelling); Data Analysis II (Generalised Linear Models); Evaluation and Monitoring Dissertation title: Regression Analysis of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Based on the EFS 2002/03 Study of the Effects of Censoring and Complex Survey Design Grade: distinction MSc in Economics University of York, UK October 1997 to September 1998 Modules included: International Macroeconomics; Introductory Econometrics; Applied Microeconometrics Dissertation title: The Joint Decision of Labour Force Participation and Formal Childcare Demand by Mothers with a live-in Partner Grade: good pass (64 per cent)

2 Vordiplom Volkswirtschaftslehre - Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany October 1994 to March 1997 Equivalent to a BSc in Economics Grade: gut (equiv. 2.1) Diplom Romanistin (Wirtschaftswissenschaften) Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany October 1991 to November 1996 Including one semester at the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France (Oct 93 to Mar 94) and two terms at the University of York (Jan to Jun 95). Equivalent to an MA in modern languages (French and English) with business studies. Grade: sehr gut (equiv. first) Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Marbach/Neckar, Germany August 1981 to May 1990 Abitur (A-level equivalent) Grade: sehr gut (1.4) A equivalent SCHOLARSHIP DAAD Scholarship to study for an MSc in Economics at York University, 1997/98. EMPLOYMENT Employer Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (since Oct 1998) Economic Adviser - Head of International Agricultural Commodities Team (since Apr 2005) Provision of economic advice on agricultural commodity markets within Defra and to other government departments includes briefing ministers and colleagues on market development, writing reports for publication, representing the UK government at international meetings as well as providing economic analysis for impact assessments. Staff responsibility for two junior economists. Examples of analysis carried out: - Analysis of the UK s food security - Analysis of the impact of biofuels on cereals and oilseeds markets - Analysis of the impact of changes in the Common Agricultural Policy on EU and UK crops and livestock sectors (e.g. Wine Reform, abolition of intervention for maize) - Impact assessments of plant health policy options (e.g. Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae policy, policies on potato cyst nematodes)

3 Statistician - Head of Agricultural Accounts Team (Nov 04 to Mar 05) Head of a team of five. The team was responsible for collection and coordination of data feeding into the aggregate accounts for agriculture as well as for the calculation of the aggregate variables. This included bringing together a wide arrange of statistics requiring excellent project management skills to meet the tight deadlines and guarantee the high quality that is required of these key statistics. It also required a good understanding of national accounts methodology. Lead statistician for the Department s key publication Agriculture in the United Kingdom. Assistant Statistician Rural Statistics Team (Jul 04 to Oct 04) Carried out a statistical analysis for Government paper on rural productivity and analysed the priority of different data sets for application of the new rural definition. Member of the task force on statistics on rural development and agricultural household income, a task force of the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Agriculture Statistics. Assistant Statistician - Food Statistics Branch (Oct 03 to May 04) Estimation of food consumption and expenditure based on the Expenditure and Food Survey and calculation of the food-related weights for the Retail Price Index. Staff responsibility two junior staff with no statistical training, one processing results of the food elements of the Expenditure and Food Survey (main system in Access), the other responsible of food industry statistics (main system in Excel). Secondment - National Expert at the UNECE Statistical Division, Economic Statistics Methodology Section (Mar 03 to Sep 03) Designed and coordinated an in-depth survey of rural development statistics in UNECE member countries and presented the preliminary results to the UNECE/Eurostat/FAO/OECD Meeting on Food and Agriculture Statistics in Europe. The final report on the survey was be published in the UNECE Statistical Journal in July Provided assistance in the organisation of the 'Meeting on Food and Agriculture Statistics in Europe' held in Geneva in July Assistant Statistician - Agricultural Accounts Team (Jun 01 to Feb 03) Responsibility for the labour and capital bills for the economic accounts for agriculture. This was a particularly challenging exercise following the 2001 Foot and Mouth Outbreak in the UK. Together with colleagues in the Office for National Statistics and at Eurostat, development of the methodology to incorporate the losses due to Foot and Mouth into the economic accounts for agriculture. I participated in the Eurostat Working Party on the Economic Accounts for Agriculture and a Taskforce on the accounts created specifically to agree a methodology for the incorporation of animal disease related losses into the agricultural accounts. Statistical Officer Livestock Statistics Branch (Oct 98 to May 01) Support to the head of the team with main responsibility of Excel based meat supply and demand forecasting models.

4 Employer - Eurostat, Luxemburg (Mar 97 to Jul 97) Work experience in the division dealing with the dissemination of statistics. Employer Village Vacances PTT, La Clusaz, France (Dec 90 to Apr 91) Work at a holiday centre of the French post, in room service and restaurant. Employer K s Eating House, Swanage, UK (Jul 90 to Oct 91) Work in a self-service restaurant. OTHER SKILLS Computer Skills: MS Office Package; STATA, SPSS, LIMDEP, TROLL; GEMPACK; Languages: German (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (basic), Spanish (basic), Indonesian (beginners) MEMBERSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS Royal Statistical Society (UK) Agricultural Economics Society (UK) European Association of Agricultural Economists International Association of Agricultural Economists PUBLICATIONS Pfuderer, S., Davies, G, Mitchell, I. (2010) The role of demand for biofuel in the agricultural commodity price spikes of 2007/08, annex to The 2007/08 Agricultural Price Spikes: Causes and Policy Implications, HM Government. Available at Pfuderer, S. and del Castillo, M. (2008) The Impact of Biofuels on Commodity Prices, Economics Group, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, April s pdf Higgins, N.A., Jones, C., Munday, M., Balmforth, H., Holmes, W., Pfuderer, S., Mountford, L., Harvey, M., Charnock, T. (2008) HPA-RPD-046 -COCO-2: a model to assess the economic impact of an accident. Available at: p=

5 Karlsson, J., Kingombe, C., Pfuderer, S. and Keita, N. Chapter (2005) Chapter IV: Inventory of National Approaches to Rural Development Statistics in The Wye Group Handbook - RURAL HOUSEHOLDS' LIVELIHOOD AND WELL-BEING. Available at: Of_National_Approaches_To_Rural_Development_Statistics.pdf Karlsson, J., Pfuderer, S. and Salvioni, C. (2005) Agricultural and Rural Household Income Statistics, paper presented at the 94th EAAE Seminar, Wye, April Available at: Pfuderer, S. (2003), Rural development statistics in the ECE region - A new project Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Volume 20, Numbers 3-4, p Pfuderer, S. (2003), Rural Development Statistics in Selected ECE Countries, paper presented at the joint UNECE/EUROSTAT/FAO/OECD Meeting on Food and Agricultural Statistics in Europe, Geneva 2-4 July 2003, updated September Available at Contribution to published UK government analysis: UK Food Security Assessment: Detailed Analysis (2010) The 2007/08 Agricultural Price Spikes: Causes and Policy Implications, HM Government (2010) GM crops and food (2009) Lead economist on impact assessments: Impact assessment of Directive 2007/33/EC: control of potato cyst nematodes (PCN) Impact Assessment on future management of Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae CAP wine reform - European Commission Communication 'Towards a sustainable European wine sector'

6 Lead statistician on statistical publications: Agriculture in the United Kingdom 2004 (2005) Available at: Family Food 2001/02 (2003) Available at: CONFERENCES Organisation Main organiser: AES/Defra One-Day Conference, Bioenergy Green Gold?, London, 31 January Support function in the organisation: ECE-FAO-Eurostat-OECD Meeting on Food and Agricultural Statistics, Geneva, 2-4 July Conferences attended AES/Defra One-day Conference UK Agriculture and Climate Change, 10 December 2009, London. 1st and 2nd Generation Biofuels and Agricultural Commodity Markets conference, Brussels, 13/14 October th International Association of Agricultural Economist Conference, The New Landscape of Global Agriculture, Beijing, August OECD Global Forum on Agriculture, Paris, 29/30 June AES/Defra One-Day Conference, Coping with Risk in UK Agriculture, London, 22 January AES workshop The "Food Crisis" of 2008, Wye College, 28 October 2008 XIIth Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, Theme: People, Food and Environments: Global Trends and European Strategies, Ghent, August nd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society. Royal Agricultural College, 31st March to 2nd April AES/Defra One-day Conference, Our Food Economy - Are We Connected Yet?, London, 24 January Policies against Hunger VI - Bioenergy and Food Security, Berlin, December 16 19, 2007.

7 The Impact of Biofuels on Commodity Markets, Brussels, 25/26 September st Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, University of Reading, UK, 2-4 April OECD Workshop Bioenergy Policy Analysis, Umea, Sweden, January AES/Defra One-day Conference, Bioenergy Green Gold?, London, 31 January th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, Paris, March AES/Defra One-day Cconference, The role of Government in landscape management and nature conservation from an agricultural perspective, London, 18 th January INTERESTS I enjoy travelling and learning (about) languages. I have visited many European countries (mainly Western European but also Bulgaria and Czech Republic), Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, USA, Canada, Russia (European part and Siberia). I also enjoy sports, both doing and watching sports. I regularly play badminton and participate in other sports when I get the time. I also like watching sport and have been a supporter of VfB Stuttgart football club for many years. REFERENCES Available upon request.