Stephanie Murphy joined Bayer (formerly Monsanto Company) in August 2014 as part of the Government Affairs Team in Washington, DC. As Vice President Crop Science and Corporate Government Affairs, Stephanie is responsible for working with Congress and the US government to support the US Crop Science business as well as the serving as the point of contact responsible for supporting all Bayer business across Europe and the Americas. Stephanie is currently Chair of the Board of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council.
Prior to joining Bayer, Stephanie spent about 13 years working in the U.S. Government advancing trade interests for U.S. agriculture. Most recently, Stephanie worked as Director of Agricultural Affairs for the Executive Office of the President, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative serving as the agricultural affairs negotiator for bilateral sanitary and phytosanitary issues and market access issues: identifying needs and emerging issues, developing negotiating positions and strategies, and leading interagency teams to advance U.S. trade interests in bilateral and multilateral fora, including leading the agriculture negotiations with several countries’ accessions to the WTO. Before joining USTR, Stephanie worked in the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Prior to her time working for the U.S. Administration, Stephanie served as a consultant to the International Food Policy Research Institute and spent time in Santiago, Chile teaching English.
Stephanie did graduate work at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and at the George Washington University and received her B.A. in International Affairs and in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Stephanie was born and raised in Auburn, Ohio.