The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) recently announced that Laurie Bryant, executive director of the Meat Import Council of America (MICA) from 2001-2020, was inducted into the Meat Industry Hall of Fame, class of 2021.
“Laurie’s lengthy and distinguished career is filled with accomplishments benefitting the meat industry,” said NAMI President and CEO Julie Anna Potts.
Bryant successfully expanded MICA’s membership and its standing with U.S. associations and government agencies and with representatives of overseas meat export associations and officials, according to NAMI.
His 20-year involvement with the U.S. Cattlemen’s Beef Board included 13 years on its executive committee and leadership positions on many working committees.
Prior to MICA, Bryant was an agricultural economist for the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture from 1972-76. He then moved to the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, Beef + Lamb NZ and then MICA.
