Alex Reep is a researcher with an interdisciplinary background in Environmental
Science, Urban Planning, and Sustainable International Development. As a Fulbright researcher
in Colombia from 2023 to 2024, affiliated with the Biotechnology Team at the Alliance
Bioversity-CIAT, Alex explored what Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and farming communities in
Colombia consider to be fair and equitable benefit-sharing for the use of Digital Sequence
Information (DSI) derived from genetic resources in their territories. Alex is currently the
Convener of the Ethics and Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Expert Council for the Periodic
Table of Food Initiative (PTFI), where she works to ensure this effort to catalog the biomolecular
composition of the world’s food supply respects ethical and legal frameworks on ABS
compliance.
She can be reached at alexreep@berkeley.edu
Areas of Expertise: Genetic Resources Policy, Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS), Digital Sequence
Information (DSI), Biopiracy