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Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Information with respect to this Item is incorporated herein by reference to the Proxy, including information within the sections entitled, "Election of Directors," "Corporate Governance," and "Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports".

The company has adopted a Code of Financial Ethics for its CEO, CFO, and Controller that may be accessed from the company's website at www.corteva.com by clicking on "Investors" and then "Corporate Governance." Any amendments to, or waiver from, any provision of the code will be posted on the company's website at the above address.

Executive Officers of the Registrant

Our executive officers serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors. The names of our executive officers and their ages, titles, and biographies as of February 9, 2023 are set forth below:

Charles V. Magro, age 53, was named Chief Executive Officer of Corteva effective November 2021. Prior to joining Corteva on November 1, 2021, Mr. Magro served as President and CEO of Nutrien Ltd. from the company’s launch in 2018 until April 2021. From 2014 to 2018, he served as President and CEO of Agrium Inc., which merged with Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. to create Nutrien Ltd. As President and CEO of Nutrien Ltd., Mr. Magro led more than 27,000 employees to achieve best-in-class engagement, top safety performance and exceptional business results. He also led the company through numerous M&A transactions, expanding globally and restructuring the industry. Prior to this role, Mr. Magro held a variety of other key leadership positions with the company, including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, and Vice President of Manufacturing. He joined Agrium Inc. in 2009 following a productive career with NOVA Chemicals Corp. From 2018 to 2022, Mr. Magro served on the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. In May 2022, Mr. Magro joined the board of Ingredion, Incorporated, a leading global ingredient solutions provider. Mr. Magro also currently serves on the board of directors of CropLife International, Business Roundtable and the IMAGINE Food Collective. He is also a member of the University of Waterloo Dean's Advisory Council.

David J. Anderson, age 73, was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Corteva effective April 2021. Mr. Anderson is an experienced Chief Financial Officer, with a career spanning a number of diverse global companies across a range of industries. Prior to joining Corteva in April 2021, Mr. Anderson was interim chief financial officer at Criteo S.A. from May 2020 to August 2020, which he joined after serving as chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Nielsen Holdings plc from September 2018 to December 2019. He previously served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Alexion Pharmaceuticals from December 2016 to August 2017, which he joined following his tenure of more than a decade as the chief financial officer for Honeywell. Prior to that, Mr. Anderson was the chief financial officer for ITT, Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding Inc., and RJR Nabisco, Inc. Mr. Anderson previously served on the boards of American Electric Power from 2011 through June 2022 and Cardinal Health from April 2014 to September 2018.

Timothy P. Glenn, age 56, was named Executive Vice President, Seed Business Unit of Corteva effective April 2022. A global agricultural industry leader, Mr. Glenn has more than three decades of experience across all facets of business leadership for seeds and crop protection, including sales, marketing, integrated operations, and commercial effectiveness. Mr. Glenn previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer of Corteva from 2018 to April 2022. Prior to this, he served as Vice President, Global Seed Business Platform of DowDuPont Inc. since 2017. From 2015 to 2017, Mr. Glenn served as President, DuPont Crop Protection, and from 2014 to 2015, he served as vice president, integrated operations and commercial effectiveness for DuPont Pioneer. He previously held other leadership positions at DuPont Pioneer, including regional business director, Latin America and Canada, after rejoining DuPont Pioneer in 2006 as director, North America Marketing. In 1997, he joined Dow AgroSciences as corn product manager, Mycogen Seeds, and served in sales and business leadership roles in the crop protection and seeds businesses of Dow AgroSciences. He first joined Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. in 1991, and held a variety of marketing roles in seed markets around the world. Mr. Glenn is a member of the Iowa Business Council and currently vice chair for the Food Bank of Iowa Board of Directors.

Robert King, age 52, was named Executive Vice President, Crop Protection Business Unit of Corteva effective April 2022. Mr. King is a highly experienced executive in the specialty chemicals and agriculture industry. Prior to joining Corteva, Mr. King served as Senior Vice President and Chief Integrated Supply Chain Officer at Nouryon from December 2020 to March 2022, where he spearheaded the global and cross-business integration of the company’s supply chain. From December 2019 to December 2020, he previously served as Vice President of Global Operations for PPG’s industrial segment. Mr. King was also the Vice President of Global Supply Chain from July 2018 to December 2019 for Nutrien Ltd., where he worked for five years and was appointed to lead the centralization of the company’s supply chain. Prior to this, he served as a Regional Manager at

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Nutrien Ltd. and as the Vice President of Nitrogen Operations and Services at Agrium Inc. in Canada before the company became Nutrien in July 2018. Mr. King started his career at Celanese Corp., where he worked for nearly two decades and held management roles around the world.

Dr. Samuel Eathington, age 54, was named Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Digital Officer of Corteva effective April 2022, where he is responsible for leading the company’s global research and development organization, building and expanding its industry-leading pipeline, and overseeing all aspects of Corteva’s digital farming strategy and investments. He is also responsible for our sustainable innovation commitments. He joined Corteva in November 2020 and served as senior vice president, chief technology officer from January 2021 until April 2022. A recognized leader in agricultural innovation, Dr. Eathington served as chief science officer of The Climate Corporation (part of the crop science division of Bayer AG) from December 2015 until April 2020. Prior to assuming that role, Dr. Eathington spent 19 years with Monsanto Corporation, rising through the ranks in quantitative traits and molecular breeding to become vice president, global plant breeding beginning in February 2011.

Cornel B. Fuerer, age 56, was named Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Corteva effective May 2019, where he is responsible for legal, compliance, enterprise risk management, government and industry affairs and corporate communications. Mr. Fuerer previously served as general counsel of the agriculture division of DowDuPont Inc. since June 2018 and prior to that served as associate general counsel supporting the agriculture division of DowDuPont after the Merger in September 2017. From 2013 to 2017, he served as associate general counsel of DuPont with responsibility for the legal affairs of DuPont’s agriculture business and from 2012 to 2013 he served as the corporate secretary of DuPont. From 2007 to 2012, Mr. Fuerer served as the vice president, general counsel and company secretary of Solae, a food ingredients joint venture between DuPont and Bunge. After joining DuPont in 1995 as an attorney in Geneva, Switzerland, he served in various legal roles in Hong Kong and Wuppertal, Germany until his appointment at Solae in 2007.

Audrey Grimm, age 42, was named Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources and Diversity Officer of Corteva effective March 2022. Since 2021 she served as Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) HR, with added responsibility for the company’s global culture and Inclusion, Diversity & Equity efforts, and before that as HR Director for the EMEA region from 2017 to 2021. Ms. Grimm spent her early career with Dow Chemical, where she held series of progressive HR roles leading to her appointment as Vice President, HR of the Agricultural division of Dow Chemical in 2015.

Brian Titus, age 50, was named Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of Corteva effective May 2019. Mr. Titus previously served as the controller and principal accounting officer of the agriculture division of DowDuPont Inc. since February 2019. Prior to this, he was general auditor of DuPont since August 2015 and previously served as the director of corporate accounting from 2014 to 2015 and global finance leader of DuPont Crop Protection from 2013 to 2014. Prior to joining DuPont’s corporate accounting group in 2010, he spent 14 years in public accounting, primarily with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, providing audit and transactional support services.

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