He is the former Executive Director and CEO of the Global Institute for Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan, which he left late in 2018.
[3] Prior to that he was Director and Chief Executive of Rothamsted Research, from April 2010 [4] to 2013, where he revitalized the scientific and funding strategy, building new public-private partnerships.
[8] Moloney was also appointed as the NSERC/Dow AgroSciences Industrial Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary.
[9][10] Prof. Moloney holds over 300 patents in plant biotechnology worldwide and led the Cell Biology group at Calgene to develop the world's first transgenic oilseeds, which resulted in RoundUp Ready Canola and other novel crops.
[10] Moloney, from Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, obtained a Bachelor of Science in chemistry at Imperial College London and he was awarded a PhD in Plant Physiology at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), in 1979.