User:MaryGaulke/sandbox/Liam Condon

Liam Condon is an Irish businessman and the President of the Crop Science division of Bayer AG. Previously, he served as director of Schering's operations in Japan and China.

Education and early life
Condon was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. As an 18-year-old in 1986, Condon worked as an assistant in the German-Irish Chamber of Commerce. He studied international business, French and German at Dublin City University, and also studied at the Technical University of Berlin.

Career
Condon began his career as a sales representative at German pharmaceutical company Schering. In 1997, Schering sent Condon to Osaka to serve as the company's sales director in Japan. He eventually came to run the company's operations in both Japan and China, and moved to Shanghai.

When Bayer acquired Schering in 2006, Condon joined Bayer as well. In his new role as general manager of the merged Bayer Schering Pharma Division, he focused on driving the company's growth in China. In 2010, Bayer appointed him head of the company's HealthCare subgroup, and he moved back to Germany. Condon then became head of Bayer's Crop Science division in December 2012, succeeding Sandra E. Peterson. In this role, he has overseen Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto. He has also led Bayer Crop Science's involvement in the "German Food Partnership," a joint public-private effort to address global hunger, and participates in the annual Youth-Ag Summit for cultivating young agricultural talent. In May 2018, Bayer announced that Condon would lead the combined Bayer-Monsanto leadership team once the acquisition of Monsanto is complete.

In January 2016, Condon joined Bayer's board of management. He is also chairman of the board of directors of CropLife International.

Personal life
Condon has a wife and two sons. In his free time, he runs ultramarathons. He speaks six languages: Gaelic, German, English, French, Japanese and Mandarin.