Catherine E. Woteki

Catherine E. Woteki is Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Iowa Agriculture and Home
Economics Experiment Station at Iowa State University. She received a B.S. degree in biology and
chemistry from Mary Washington College (1969), and M.S. (1971) and Ph.D. (1974) degrees in human
nutrition from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her research interests include food safety
and nutrition policy, chronic disease prevention, and population health surveillance and monitoring. Prior to
joining Iowa State, Woteki was a Senior Research Scientist with the College of Agriculture and Natural
Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Professor of Nutrition and Food Safety at the
University of Nebraska. She served from August 1997 until January 2001 as the first Under Secretary for
Food Safety in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and was for two years Deputy Under Secretary
for Research, Education, and Economics at the USDA. She was Deputy Associate Director for Science in
the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Woteki is a registered dietitian and a member of
the Institute of Medicine. November 2003