Bioeconomy Coordinator
Herrick Fox
Herrick (“Rick”) Fox is USDA’s Bioeconomy Coordinator, supporting the integration of bioeconomy-related activities across the Department and serving as the Department’s technical representative in interagency and international bioeconomy initiatives.
For most of his prior 15 years in USDA, Rick was engaged directly in our nation’s bioeconomy through the U.S. Forest Service: first on the ground in forest management on the National Forests, and later in forest policy and regulation for USDA leadership and on assignment to the US Senate Committee on Agriculture. For the rest of those years Rick worked in senior management with USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service in agricultural trade capacity-building. Rick holds a B.S. in Conservation & Resource Studies from U.C. Berkeley and a Master’s in Forest Science from Yale.
