Professor Maurice M. Moloney is a research biologist and biotechnology businessman. He is the former Executive Director and CEO of the Global Institute for Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan, which he left late in 2018. At the Global Institute for Food Security, Moloney more than doubled the funding for the Institute including the award of $37.2 million, the largest Federal research grant ever received by the University of Saskatchewan. Between December 2013 to October 2014 he was Group Executive, Food, Health and Life Science Industries, for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Prior to that he was Director and Chief Executive of Rothamsted Research, from April 2010 to 2013, where he revitalized the scientific and funding strategy, building new public-private partnerships.