Board of Directors at December 31, 2011 From left to right Martin Taylor Jürg Witmer Michael Mack Stefan Borgas Jacques Vincent, Felix  Weber, Pierre Landolt,  Peggy Bruzelius, Michael  Mack, Martin Taylor,  Jürg Witmer, Rolf Watter,  Stefan Borgas,  Peter Thompson and  David Lawrence at  Syngenta’s Crop  Demonstration Days  presentation for  employees in Basel  in October 2011. Chairman of the Board, non-executive Director.  Chairman of the Chairman’s Committee and the  Corporate Responsibility Committee, and member  of the Compensation Committee. He is also  Chairman of the Syngenta Foundation for  Sustainable Agriculture Age: 59. Nationality: British. Appointed 2000. Term of  office: 2013. Vice Chairman, non-executive Director. Member of  the Chairman’s Committee and of the Compensation  Committee Age: 63. Nationality: Swiss. Appointed 2006. Term of  office: 2012. Jürg Witmer is currently Chairman of Givaudan SA and  Clariant AG. He joined Roche (1978) in the legal department  and subsequently held a number of positions including  Assistant to the CEO, General Manager of Roche Far  East based in Hong Kong, Head of Corporate  Communications and Public Affairs at Roche headquarters  in Basel, Switzerland, and General Manager of Roche  Austria. Thereafter he became Chief Executive Officer of  Givaudan Roure (1999) and then Chairman of the Board  of Directors of Givaudan (2005).  Martin Taylor is currently Vice Chairman of RTL Group  SA. Previously he was an Advisor to Goldman Sachs  International (1999–2005), Chairman of WHSmith plc  (1999–2003), and Chief Executive Officer of Barclays plc  (1993–1998) and Courtaulds Textiles (1990–1993). He  recently served as a member of the British Government’s  Independent Banking Commission. Martin Taylor has a  degree in oriental languages from Oxford University. Jürg Witmer has a doctorate in law from the University of  Zurich, as well as a degree in international studies from  the University of Geneva.  Chief Executive Officer (CEO), executive Director.  Member of the Chairman’s Committee and the  Corporate Responsibility Committee Age: 51. Nationality: American. Appointed 2008. Term  of office: 2013. Michael Mack was Chief Operating Officer of Seeds  (2004–2007) and Head of Crop Protection, NAFTA  Region (2002–2004) for Syngenta. Prior to this, he was  President of the Global Paper Division of Imerys SA, a  French mining and pigments concern, from the time of its  merger in 1999 with English China Clays Ltd., where he  was Executive Vice President, Americas and Pacific  Region, in addition to being an Executive Director of the  Board. From 1987 to 1996 he held various roles with  Mead Corporation. Michael Mack is also Chairman of the  Board of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.  Michael Mack has a degree in economics from  Kalamazoo College in Michigan, studied at the University  of Strasbourg, and has an MBA from Harvard University. Non-executive Director. Member of the Audit  Committee Age: 47. Nationality: German. Appointed 2009. Term of  office: 2012. Stefan Borgas was Chief Executive Officer of Lonza Group  from June 2004 to January 2012. Prior to joining Lonza, he  spent 14 years with BASF Group where he held various  leadership positions in Fine Chemicals and Engineering  Plastics in the USA, Germany, Ireland and China. Stefan  Borgas is a member of the Board of scienceindustries,  the association of Swiss chemical, pharmaceutical and  biotech industries, and of the Swiss-American Chamber  of Commerce. He is also president of the Swiss  Management Gesellschaft (SMG). Stefan Borgas holds a degree in Business Administration  from the University of Saarbrücken and an MBA from the  University of St. Gallen. Syngenta Annual Review 2011 40