Professor Keith Solomon is Director of the Centre for Toxicology, University of Guelph and is also a Professor in the Department of Environmental Biology. Professor Solomon teaches courses in toxicology and pesticides at the University of Guelph. He directs an active program of research into the fate and effects of pesticides in the environment as well as exposure of humans to pesticides. He currently serves on several advisory committees on matters related to environmental toxicology and pesticides in the USA and Canada and is an active member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, the Entomological Society of America and the Toxicology Forum. He is the recipient of the 1993 Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry-ABC Laboratories award for Environmental Education.

He is a Graduate of Rhodes University in Chemistry and Zoology and holds M.Sc. degrees from Rhodes University and the University of Illinois as well as a Ph.D. from Illinois. He has more than 25 years of experience in research and teaching in pesticide science and environmental toxicology and has contributed to more than 100 scientific publications in the fields of pesticides and environmental toxicology