Mr Guthrie has committed his career to agriculture and worked for 32 years with one of the agriculture companies, Syngenta, and predecessor companies around the world. After building his early career in sales, marketing and supply chain roles in Australian agriculture, Andrew spent 20 years working internationally with assignments in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and China. He gained experience in diverse cultural environments that require broad leadership skills. Andrew spent most of his senior leadership years with Syngenta in Asia, as Regional Director for Asia Pacific, before he was promoted to lead Syngenta's business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He is Chair of the Risk Committee.