Anne-Marie works as Group Senior Advisor Welfare, Sustainability and Compliance for Aviagen Group. Anne-Marie has a Masters degree from Wageningen University in the Netherlands with majors in animal genetics and animal behaviour. Before joining Aviagen, she set up the European Forum of Farm Animal Breeders (cattle, pigs, poultry, aquaculture), a patent watch, a Code of Good Practice for Animal Breeding Organisations (Code-EFABAR), an EU-recognised technology platform on animal breeding (FABRE TP), and initiated the Animal Task Force (ATF). Anne-Marie organised the International Poultry Council (IPC) development of the top 5 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the FAO-IPC Declaration of Sāo Paulo in 2019, and currently chairs the IPC Health and Welfare working group. She has coordinated various socio-economic EU projects. She is a board member of the International Poultry Welfare Alliance and a PAACO welfare auditor.