Parag Acharya
Parag is Senior Fellow in Food Innovation at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, with 14 years’ industrial R&D experience in the food and biotechnology sectors – including as Unilever’s science lead (2011-2020). He’s worked on climate-smart, alternative protein foods funded by GCRF, STFC Food Network+, SUSFOOD2 ERA-NET and Defra.
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Heiko Balzter
Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Leicester and Director of the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, Heiko leads UKRI’s Landscape Decisions Programme and NERC’s National Centre for Earth Observation’s International Programme.
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Robert Costanza
Robert is Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London (UCL). He’s a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in the UK, an Overseas Expert in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at the University of Stockholm.
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John Ingram
John is ECI Food Programme Leader at Oxford University, leads the ‘Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning’ programme, and co-leads the Foresight4Food and Food System Impact Valuation programmes. He also coordinated the GFS £15m ‘Resilience of the UK Food System’ programme.
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Jacquie McGlade
Jacquie is Professor of Natural Capital and Prosperity at University College London, and previously UN Environment Programme Chief Scientist (2013-17) and Director of the European Environment Agency (2003-13). She’s currently leading research with UK farmers, water companies and local authorities on net zero pathways and will lead on behaviour change in sequestration.
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Richard Pywell
Richard is Head of Biodiversity Science at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. He has 25 years’ research experience of working with the farming industry and policymakers to balance sustainable food production with reversing biodiversity declines. He led the Defra and Natural England-funded Hillesden Farm Research Platform, and currently co-leads the AgZero+ programme.
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Simon Willcock
Simon is a Principal Scientist at Rothamsted Research and Professor of Sustainability at University of Bangor. He’s an interdisciplinary researcher with a strong track record across UKRI (>£5M) in large-scale social science, ecosystem services, and resilience and tipping points.
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Anna Macready
Anna is Associate Professor in Consumer Behaviour and Marketing at the University of Reading’s School of Agriculture Policy and Development. A public health nutritionist and consumer psychologist, she leads EIT Food’s Consumer TrustTracker® project on trust in the food system. Her previous research includes consumer food waste, personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change projects funded by EIT Food, EU and FSA.
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India LangleyIndia is the Food Systems Research Lead at LettUs Grow, with eight years experience working across alternative food production methods and technologies in everything from start-ups to non-profits and multinational companies. She was on the Take a Bite out of Climate Change project team, provides support to FixOurFood's Grow It York program, and is pursuing postgraduate study at the Centre for Food Policy in London.
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UK Research has funded this Network+ with the support of these 4 councils:
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Gerard Davies Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Andrew Enow Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Oliver Knevitt Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Elizabeth Hinchcliffe |