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Geoff Simm is a graduate of the Universities of Wales (BSc (Hons) in Agriculture) and Edinburgh (PhD in Animal Breeding). He joined the East of Scotland College of Agriculture, Edinburgh in 1983 as Animal Breeding Specialist and has worked since then in research, consultancy and education on sustainable livestock breeding programmes, especially in cattle and sheep.

Following a number of research management roles in SAC, he was Group Manager of SAC’s Sustainable Livestock Systems Research Group – which works on animal breeding and genetics, animal behaviour and welfare, animal development and livestock production systems - from 2003 until his current appointment in 2009.

He is a past recipient of the Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, the Sir John Hammond Memorial Prize of the British Society of Animal Science, the George Hedley Memorial Award of the National Sheep Association, the Bicentenary Trophy of the Royal Smithfield Club, and is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies. He was awarded a SAC Personal Professorship in Animal Breeding in 1999. He was President of the British Society of Animal Science in 2007/08, and currently chairs the Farm Animal Genetic Resources Committee – a Government expert scientific committee.