Ron Hunter PhD, Scientist at The Coca-Cola Company

Ron Hunter PhD, Scientist at The Coca-Cola Company

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Ronald E. Hunter, Jr., PhD, is a scientist at The Coca-Cola Company. He is an analytical chemist and new technology program leader for the North America Analytical Services Laboratory. His areas of expertise include liquid and gas chromatography, method development and validation, mass spectrometry, process innovation and optimization, water quality, and food and beverage analysis. At The Coca-Cola Company, Hunter strengthens quality and food safety standards, drives innovation, and advances Coca-Cola’s long-term strategic growth objectives.

Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Hunter was a former analytical chemist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While at CDC, Hunter was responsible for the end-to-end development and implementation of high-throughput methods using to quantify tobacco exposure biomarkers for large epidemiological studies, including the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study.

Hunter has over eight years of experience as an analytical chemist in the public, private, and academic sectors. He worked as a senior research specialist and post-doctoral fellow at Emory University for a few years after shaping environmental policy directives at the national level as an environmental health fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Hunter has over a decade of experience in pesticide residue analysis in difficult matrices and method optimization via technological advancements. He is also a member of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists International; the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers; the Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science; and serves as the 2017 Chair of the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society. In 2014, he was awarded the Director’s Award for Excellence in Innovations by CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health. 

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Education: PhD

Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant

Years of experience: 5 to 10 years

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