Author &
Mission
MILES HILLMANN
Miles Hillmann is a lifelong innovator whose global career spans research, entrepreneurship, and environmental leadership. Inspired by a renewed passion for genetic science, he wrote this book to spotlight the unsung heroes transforming our food future — the Super-Seeders.
From the Field to the Future
Miles Hillmann is a lifelong entrepreneur with a career that bridges scientific curiosity and hands-on innovation. From his early work at the Kabanyolo Agricultural Research Station in Uganda during Idi Amin’s fall, to experiencing food shortage and famine in the Ethiopian Central Highlands. His work encompassed everything from agricultural development, to building flash flood irrigation food-for-work sytems. The importance of food security was indelibly imprinted on his mind.
His first company developed processes for food industry materials. Concurrently he pioneered real-time organic material analysis. He then created one of the UK’s major pollution control companies supplying specialist materials to companies in Europe, Nigeria and the Middle East. This led him to establish companies in e-commerce, accredited pollution control training and flood control.
Throughout he maintained an interest in agricultural science — especially the potential of genetic advances.
This book is not his story. It is the story of the scientists, curators, and plant breeders leading this movement — told in their voices, through his lens. This is the story of the Super Seeders.
"This Isn’t About Me. It’s About a Global Alliance."
The Super-Seeders is the story of the quiet heroes behind a global, collaborative effort to conserve plant biodiversity, improve food resilience, and adapt agriculture to a changing world.
What he uncovered wasn’t a miracle breakthrough or a single brilliant discovery. It was a coordinated system — the Seven Pillars — built on decades of work by thousands of people across continents.
His mission is to bring those stories to light, not for applause, but because understanding the system is the first step toward protecting it. If the world is to face the challenges of food security, climate change, and biodiversity loss, these stories matter — and the systems behind them must endure.