Tim LaSalle is adjunct professor and Co-founder of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems, California State University, Chico. The Center is leading and providing science-based research in agriculture ecosystems for a regenerative food system that will improve soil health, mitigate climate change, and offer affordable and productive methods to the benefit of smallholder and commercial farmers around the globe.

LaSalle previously served as the first CEO of Rodale Institute, Executive Director of the Allan Savory Center for Holistic Management, and he was research coordinator for the Howard G. Buffett Foundation in Africa on soils and food security for smallholder farmers.

He is Professor Emeritus, California Polytechnic State University, and served as President and CEO, of the California Agriculture Leadership Program. Also, he lives and works on his farm in Atascadero, CA.