Allister Phillips

Founding Partner, AgbioInvestor

Allister Phillips is a founding partner of AgbioInvestor, consultants, and analysists covering crop protection, seed and traits, and agricultural commodities. Allister began his career as an analyst at Phillips McDougall in 1999 while also studying for an honors degree in biotechnology. He progressed into a Senior Analyst position, specializing in the commercial seed industry, specifically GM seeds.

At AgbioInvestor, Allister provides data, insight, and opinion to the leading global crop protection and seed companies through AgbioInvestor’s subscription services, which covers conventional crop protection, biological crop protection, seeds, crop production, and commodity analysis. The company has also developed a free-to-access GM seed data platform, GM Monitor, to provide a resource for GM crop cultivation information. In recent years Allister has taken a keen interest in agricultural commodities, as crop production, trade, and ending stocks have a profound impact on agricultural input prices and crop demand.