Harald Grethe
Harald Grethe is a German agricultural economist and chair for agricultural policy at the Humboldt-University Berlin. Since 2013 he heads the Scientific Council of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Nutrition. Harald Grethe, having started as a modeller of agricultural markets where he developed models that took resource scarcity into account, has become a prominent critic of the largely inactive behaviour of the European governments regarding animal welfare in agriculture.