About me
Dr. Leonardus Vergütz is the Corporate Chief Innovation Officer at OCP Group, a leading international company providing essential nutrients and innovative solutions to soil, plant, and animal health. His role is to orchestrate the innovation across the different business units to ensure the sustainable development of OCP and to achieve OCP’s goal to support farmers on their journey to improve soil health, ensure food production, and make agriculture part of the solution to climate change.
He is also the Head of the Chair of Soil Science at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University – UM6P, a research program dedicated to understand the underpinning role of soils as the connector of our major societal challenges.
Dr. Vergütz is an agronomist with MS and PhD in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, has over 10 years of experience in academia and R&D in his native country of Brazil, US, Morocco, and other African and European countries as well. He is a founder member of a Brazilian startup focused on bridging the knowledge gap between academia and agriculture and his family’s coffee farm keeps him aware of the farmers’ reality and struggles they face to improve the sustainability of farming systems.