Chair

Jenny Rosborough, Registered Nutritionist
Head of Nutrition, Jamie Oliver Ltd

Jenny works across the Jamie Oliver Group to implement nutrition standards. She is particularly passionate about improving the food environment through policy change. Jenny is part of the Expert Advisory Group for Bite Back 2030, a youth-led movement calling for a food system that puts children’s health first. Jenny was previously Campaign Manager at Action on Sugar and developed MEND (child weight management) programmes, upskilling health professionals internationally to deliver these.
Jenny has recently joined the Global Food Security Programme’s Strategic Advisory Board.

Panelists

Mark Driscoll
Founder and Director Tasting the Future

Mark is Founder and Director of Tasting the Future, a purpose driven not-for-profit sustainable food systems consultancy. He is a global expert in and a passionate advocate for the need for food systems change. He has over years 30 experience of working with businesses, governments and civil society organisations on solutions that address some of the key social and environmental challenges confronting our global food system. He has developed and led large sustainable food programmes with organisations including WWF and Forum for the Future, focussing on policy and practice at the intersection of health, nutrition, and sustainability. Mark graduated from Wye College (London University) with a degree in Environmental science. He works for a range of international organisations including the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, the World Health Organization, WWF, and Compassion in World Farming. He sits on several advisory boards for business, government, and non-profit organisations. He also writes and blogs extensively on issues and trends impacting on the food system.

Professor Paul Gately
Professor of Exercise & Obesity, Leeds Beckett University

Paul has been at the helm of MoreLife since it was established at Leeds Beckett University in 1999 and it is now one of the largest specialist training and services provider for tackling childhood and adult obesity. MoreLife’s research was commended as an impact case study for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Paul has led a broad range of innovative obesity research from understanding the influence of obesogenic environments to the impact of high protein diets on obese children, always conducted with the needs of service users at the heart of his research activities. With a strong focus on the link between research and practice, he believes this approach has never been more important. In addition, Paul and colleagues contribute to policy and practice development in the public, private and not for profit sectors in the areas of obesity, nutrition and physical activity. He has secured contracts worth over £20 million from the NHS and Local Authorities and has acted as a principal investigator for £5million worth of grants from charities and research funding agencies.

Katharine Jenner
Head of Campaigns Centre for Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London

Katharine is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and the Campaign Director of CASH (Consensus Action on Salt and Health) and its international arm WASH (World Action on Salt and Health), a charity organisation concerned with the health effects of a high salt diet. She is Chief Executive Officer of the patient’s association Blood Pressure UK, a national charity which aims to reduce population blood pressure to prevent strokes and heart attacks. Katharine is responsible for the management, decision making and running of all aspects of the award-winning charities campaigns and staff, under the guidance of the Chairman, Professor Graham MacGregor Katharine is also Chair of the Better Hospital Food campaign working party (Sustain), and member of the Prevention Clinical Studies Group (UK NIHR Stroke Research Network) and the Cardiovascular Coalition. She is a co-founder of the Public Health Nutrition UK network, and is a Visiting Lecturer at several UK Universities including Queen Mary, University of London, Chester, Imperial College and Southampton University. Katharine also delivers healthy eating sessions for people living with HIV as part of The Food Chain’s ‘Eating Positively’ programme.

Pamela Mason
Public Health Nutritionist

Pamela Mason is a public health nutritionist, gaining an MSc and PhD in nutrition from King’s College London in 1989 after which she worked in training healthcare professionals in nutrition. Having begun her professional life as a community pharmacist, she also worked in pharmacy journalism writing articles, open learning materials, and conference reports from around the world. Pamela has also worked in public relations for the food industry.
In 2003 she moved from London to a rural village in Monmouthshire where her passion for all things food expanded. Farming, animal welfare, organic growing, food events in the village, new conversations… all conspired to make her realize there was a great deal more to food than she had thought about.
Ten years ago she completed a Masters Degree (with distinction) in food policy at City University in London where she developed a particular interest in sustainable diets and sustainable food systems and in the impact diet has on health and the environment.
She has written four food and nutrition-related books, including most recently a book entitled ‘Sustainable Diets. How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System’ which she co-authored with Professor Tim Lang from City University. Sustainable Diets was shortlisted for a Guild of Food Writers book award in 2018.
Pamela works with the British Dietetic Association (BDA) on their sustainable diet policy ‘One Blue Dot’ and is on the advisory panel for Public Health Wales. With a keen interest in short food supply chains and local food, she also works with local food networks in Monmouthshire where she is based and with the well-known Food Festival in Abergavenny. In 2017, she created the menu for an all Monmouthshire Breakfast for which all the food is sourced from within the county boundary. She chairs the Vale of Usk Rural Development Programme Local Action Programme (LAG), is a member of the developing Sustainable Food Partnership in Monmouthshire and lectures both nationally and internationally.

Tanya Haffner RD MBDA
CEO, MyNutriWeb

Tanya is an Irish born, UK trained dietitian and nutritionist. She previously founded Nutrilicious Communications which has supported multiple change agents in food and health over 20 years. Now, the culmination of her mission to help everyone to eat well is MyNutriWeb.com, which uses all her experience and network curating and running authentic influential learning and dialogue events, including traditional conferences, policy, networking and training opportunities. Tanya works with the British Dietetic Association (BDA) on their sustainable diet policy ‘One Blue Dot’ and has received a Roll of Honour from the BDA for her leadership in helping to bring about OBD.

Dr Rosalind Sharpe
Director, Food Research Collaboration, Centre for Food Policy
City, University of London

Lindy Sharpe is Director of the Food Research Collaboration at the Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London. The Collaboration combines knowledge from academia and civil society to champion the transition to more sustainable food systems. She has worked on food systems and sustainability for more than 20 years, as an academic and in civil society organisations. In her previous career she worked as a journalist in England and Canada.