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Corey E. Scott

Committee Chair | Principal Nutrition Scientist, Cargill

Plymouth, MN

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Committee: Technical Advisory and Finance

Term Ends: 2022

Bio

Corey is a native of Lexington, NC who has spent over 20 years in the food industry. He is currently a Principal Nutrition Scientist with Cargill in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he leads global nutritional research on carbohydrates, sweeteners and sugar alcohols.  Prior to this role, Corey was Global Nutrition Manager for Lipid Nutrition B.V., in The Netherlands focusing on clinical research involving novel lipids for early life nutrition, weight management and diabetes.  He has also worked for General Mills in Golden Valley, MN as a nutrition scientist in The Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition. Corey is a  former Board Member of the University Industry Consortium (UIC), an industry advisor for the UIC/FFAR Fellowship and Steering Team member and Work Package leader for Project SWEET (a five-year EU Consortium project evaluating sweeteners), and chair of the IAFNS low and non-caloric sweetener committee. Corey lives in Minneapolis, MN with his wife, Marte-Jenke and two daughters Carolina and Jade.

Education

B.S. Chemistry North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

M.S. Chemistry University of North Carolina

Ph.D. Food Science and Nutrition The Ohio State University