Claude Beigel

Director, Environmental Fate at BASF

Limburgerhof, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

About

Executive manager with over twenty years of cross-regional experience in regulatory science and regulatory affairs in the agrochemical industry (BASF, American Cyanamid, Rhône-Poulenc Agro / Aventis CropScience). Director, Head of Global Environmental Fate, BASF Crop Protection. Departmental Head of Regulatory Science, North America, Crop Protection. Broad track record in registration and environmental modelling of plant protection products under European and Asia-Pacific regulatory systems. Sustained role in industry associations, including chair of UIPP environmental modelling working group (FROGS tool) and FOCUS kinetics metabolites subgroup.

Experience

  • Director, Environmental Fate at BASF SE
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • BASF (22 yrs 3 mos)
    • Director, Environmental Fate
      Aug 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      Global Head of Environmental Fate, Crop Protection & Departmental Head of Regulatory Science, Crop Protection, North America.

    • Head of Registration, Japan & Lead Regulatory Sciences, Asia-Pacific
      Nov 2018 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Management of Japan crop protection registration team and Asia-Pacific regional regulatory science team.

    • Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs Asia Pacific
      Jan 2012 - Oct 2018 · 6 yrs 10 mos

      Regional responsibility for BASF's product registrations and regulatory advocacy for fungicides and plant growth regulators in Asia Pacific. Regional lead for Regulatory Sciences. Global responsibility for registration of Public Health products.

  • Research Chemist at American Cyanamid / BASF
    Jun 2000 - Jul 2002 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    European environmental fate and modeling expert. Monitoring of contracted studies, writing of environmental fate portion of EU dossier (Annex points 7 and 9) for list I, list II and new active ingredients, exposure assessments (PEC reports) for registration dossiers at Member State level.

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher at Rhone Poulenc AG Co / Aventis CropScience
    Jun 1998 - Jun 2000 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Environmental fate and bioavailability of organic chemicals in soil: sorption, formation of bound residues, degradation, mobility, plant uptake and phytotoxicity of a new fiprole insecticide.