Amy JacksonAmy has spent most of her life working in and around farming: on farms, as trainee auctioneer and cattle breeder, and in agricultural public relations – including four years as head of communications at the dairy levy board. After time out working with international clients such as Toyota and Gillette, she returned to specialise in agricultural issues and crises management, with involvement in high profile stories such as the rise of ‘megafarms’ and antibiotic use in livestock. Amy has a PhD in public perceptions of farming from the University of Nottingham’s Vet School, and is looking forward to applying social science and behaviour change practice to the challenge of achieving net zero.
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Caeli RichardsonCaeli discovered her passion for agriculture while working on a dairy farm in Canada. She broadened her practical experience on a local swine and cash- crop operation before gaining a global perspective of on-farm challenges. Incorporating practical experience into her theoretical training allows Caeli to create innovative solutions to multifaceted problems. Before joining AbacusBio, Caeli completed a Ph.D. in Computational Biology at La Trobe University in Australia, focusing on the development and implementation of genetic strategies to reduce methane emissions in Australian dairy cattle. Caeli is a proud participant of the 2023 ICAR Brian Wickham Young Persons Exchange Program where she investigated the implementation and validation of sustainability in cattle.
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Charlotte Wheeler
Charlotte has worked in the agricultural sector for the past decade, as a farmer, in academia, and currently for Pasture for Life, where she established their regional farmer knowledge exchange groups. Recently she has moved into a new role as Research Officer at Pasture for Life, synthesising relevant research for a farming audience, as well as working on an inter-organisational project on the development of local and alternative supply chains. Charlotte is interested in exploring the role that agroecology can play in contributing to the UK food system's resilience to climate change, and the synergies between low-input farming, biodiversity restoration, and equitable, just food systems.
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Georgie BarberGeorgie is the Land Use and Countryside lead at the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, focusing on how a Land Use Framework can support better food systems and the transition to net zero. Focusing on governance of climate transitions, her previous advocacy and research has included international advocacy on the Convention on Biological Diversity and China’s overseas food footprint, as well as working on climate issues at the European Parliament.
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Jude IronsJude was brought up on a smallholding in Derbyshire and read Animal Science at the University of Leeds. She started her career at Tesco, and subsequently worked for Marks and Spencer, Booker, as a consultant, and for the 2 Sisters Food Group. She currently works for Nandos as a Product Director for menu development, purchasing of food and non food, logistics and all ethical sourcing and technical environmental standards and targets. She sits on the Red Tractor Poultry board, the FDTP (Food Data Transparency Partnership) for DEFRA and the Soil Association Exchange Advisory Board.
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Saher HasnainSaher is a Researcher at the Food Systems Transformation Programme with the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and an Environmental Change Research Fellow with Reuben College. Trained as an environmental scientist and geographer, she specialises in food systems transformation and resilience, food geography, and urban environmental health. At the Environmental Change Institute, she works on an interdisciplinary portfolio of projects focused on food systems and foresight analysis.
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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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