Guest speaker

Dr Ximena Schmidt
Global Challenges Research Fellow, Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Department, Brunel University London

Ximena is a chemical engineer and a life cycle sustainability expert with over 10 years’ experience collaborating and leading interdisciplinary multi stakeholders’ projects in food systems, including sustainable diets, clean cooking fuels, food waste valorisation and circular economy. She is lecturer in chemical engineering at Brunel University London.

Chair

Professor Jennie Macdiarmid
Professor in Sustainable Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen

Jennie is a Professor of Sustainable Nutrition and Health and the Interim Director of interdisciplinary challenge Health, Nutrition and Well-being. She gained a BSc (Hons) in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Surrey, during which she spent a year working at the CSIRO research laboratories in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Food Research (Norwich) and the University of Dundee (Psychology dept) investigating chocolate and eating behaviours. In 1997 she completed her PhD at the University of Leeds (Psychology), after which she spent 18 months working for the International Obesity Task Force in Aberdeen. Before joining the Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen in 2006, she worked in department of environmental and occupational health in the medical school. Her research focuses on food and nutrition security and the impact of diets on climate change and land use. This includes understanding how to change dietary habits to be healthier and more environmentally sustainable.

Chair

Sue Davies
Head of Consumer Rights and Food Policy, WHICH

Sue Davies is Head of Consumer Rights and Food Policy at Which?. She leads Which?’s work on food, trade, sustainability and wider consumer rights and consumer product safety policy. She was the Chair of the European Food Safety Authority from 2012-2016 and has been awarded an MBE in recognition of her work on food safety.

View Dr Ximena Schmidt’s talk (30 mins CPD)