Brent Erickson is executive vice president in charge of the Industrial and Environmental Section at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). BIO represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and 31 nations. Mr. Erickson holds a B.S. in Biology and an M.A. in International Studies. After completing his undergraduate degree, he was involved in fossil fuel research for three years at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Laramie Energy Technology Center.
After completing graduate school Mr. Erickson joined the staff of U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-WY) as a legislative assistant handling energy, environment, defense and arms control issues. Mr. Erickson later became legislative director and managed all legislative and policy issues for the Senator, who was then the Assistant Senate Republican Leader.
After leaving the U.S. Senate Mr. Erickson joined the American Petroleum Institute (API) as a Washington representative where he directed government relations efforts on energy and environmental issues. While at API he earned three special achievement awards.
Mr. Erickson joined BIO in 2000 as director of the Industrial and Environmental Section. He was promoted to vice president in 2001 and executive vice president in 2005.
In 2005 he was named consulting editor of the journal Industrial Biotechnology. Since 2000 he has served as a member of the board of directors of the Western Research Institute, a part of the University of Wyoming Research Corporation. He also serves on the N.E. Sun Grant Initiative steering committee and the Tourism Montreal advisory board. In 2008 he was named to the advisory board of the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a unique collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of Illinois, and BP.
BIO represents more than 1,200 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and 31 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products.
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