Dr. Shannon B. Olsson

As a Ph.D graduate from Cornell University, a project leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, and then a faculty member of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India, Dr. Shannon B Olsson is an international leader with more than 25 years of experience as a chemical ecologist.  She brings her unique approach of merging her science background with non-science communities in multiple countries and sectors.  Shannon is the founder and Global Director of the echo network, an over 2600 member science with society network of academic, government, industrial, NGO, service, and philanthropic sectors across 46 countries. She also serves through the echo network’s international hub as Special Scientific Envoy to India with the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) in close collaboration with the Danish Innovation Center in India (under the auspices of the MFA and the MHER).