Pat Mooney (born in 1947) has worked with civil society organizations on international trade and development issues related to agriculture, biodiversity and emerging technologies for over 40 years.

Pat Mooney had no formal university training, but, together with Cary Fowler and Hope Shand, he began working on the 'Seeds' issue - the problem that legislation was enabling agribusiness corporations to control access to the seeds to grow the decreasing variety of crops that supported global food supply - in the 1970s.

ETC Group is a small international CSO addressing the impact of new technologies on vulnerable communities.

Mooney’s more recent work has focused on geoengineering, nanotechnology,[3] synthetic biology and global governance of these technologies as well as corporate involvement in their development.

[5][6] Rooney lived on the Canadian prairies for many years; he now resides just outside the village of Wakefield, Quebec with his wife in retirement.