Nader Elkassabany
CropLife America announced today that it has hired Nader Elkassabany as senior director of environmental policy, effective July 20.

Elkassabany will be responsible for science and regulatory policy strategies on environmental issues, CropLife America President and CEO Jay Vroom said in a news release.

He will also work with member leaders to manage the Environmental Risk Assessment Committee and its working groups, Vroom said, and report to Janet Collins, senior vice president of science and regulatory policy.

Elkassabany has been director of regulatory affairs pertaining to registration at S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. in Racine, Wis., where he supervised the securing and maintaining of federal and state registrations for all consumer products.

Previously, he served as the branch chief in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pesticides Programs, Antimicrobials Division, Risk Assessment and Science Support Branch.

Before joining the EPA, Elkassabany was a research assistant in the Department of Entomology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, for five years. He also taught as an adjunct professor of microbiology for Montgomery County Community College in Rockville, Md., for 10 years.

Elkassabany received a bachelor of science in agriculture at the University of Alexandria in Egypt and a master of science in entomology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He obtained a doctoral degree in entomology from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.