Donald is the Executive Director of the Global Dairy Platform (GDP), based in Chicago USA, and serves as
Chairman of the Dairy Sustainability Framework, as a leader of the Pathways to Dairy Net Zero initiative,
and as a member of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock Guiding Group and of the FAO’s Private
Sector Advisory Group. He is also a past Chairman of the International Agri-Food Network and the
Private Sector Mechanism to the United Nations Committee on World Food Security.
GDP is a not-for-profit industry association representing the global dairy sector. GDP membership which
includes ~100 leading cooperatives, companies, associations, scientific bodies, and other partners, has
operations in more than 150 countries and collectively produces more than one third of all the world’s milk.