Lucien Agniel

Lucien Agniel is the Managing Director at Agniel Commodities, full-service cash grain and feed ingredient brokerage company founded in 2005 providing sourcing and sales expertise in grains, oilseeds, cereal feed ingredients, and marine proteins and oils. He was the past President (and before that Deputy President, and vice president) of GAFTA, The Grain and Feed Trade Association - London. From 1998-2005, he was Division Manager of the Specialty Commodities Division of Commodity Specialists Company of Minneapolis, MN (formerly part of The Pillsbury Company). He has held positions as a broker at Pasternak, Baum and Co., Inc. and a trader at Chilewich Corporation.

Before embarking on his commercial career in 1981, he served as the Scientific Director for the Corn Refiners Association and Technical Director of The Millers’ National Federation in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Rhode Island Food Bank Advisory Committee. Lucien received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Masters of Science in microbiology from The American University in Washington, D.C. in 1972.