Dr John R. Pluske is a consultant, CEO and Chief Scientist of the Australasian Pork Research Institute Ltd., an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australasian Pig Science Association (2015). Dr Pluske holds a BSc (Agric) and a Ph.D. (The University of Western Australia). He has worked at universities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, with sabbaticals at the University of Guelph and Kansas State University, as the Inaugural Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Agriculture and Life Sciences. Dr Pluske’s major research concerns nutrition and physiology of pigs. He has published more than 550 articles in the non-ruminant sciences. His research has surpassed 15,300 citations with a h-index of 56 (Google Scholar). Dr Pluske has supervised 30 PhD students, MSc students and post-doctoral scholars, and mentored many scientists. He has given in excess of 115 invited addresses, and obtained research funding nearing (AU) $12 million.