Tanya is an Irish born, UK trained dietitian and nutritionist. She previously founded Nutrilicious Communications, the first solely dedicated nutrition communications agency in the UK, 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 the award winning 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. Supporting and empowering all health professionals and other change agents in food with nutrition matters is in Tanya’s view, critical to improving citizens health whilst also helping to protect our planet. Tanya was awarded the Caroline Walker Trust Award for Freelance Nutritionist of the Year 2021 which recognises distinctive and outstanding work in promoting public health which maintains and advances the standards of food and nutrition. Tanya has recently taken up the role of chair of the BDA Sustainable diets group and is looking forward to working with the BDA to help advance the professions impact on sustainable eating.

Helen is a Registered Dietitian and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association with 26 years’ experience in food, diet, and its’ relationship to health. Passionate about communicating the role of good nutrition towards positive health and well-being, she runs her own successful dietetic practice in Derbyshire, where she provides consultancy for food companies and regularly writes and provide expert comment on nutrition news stories for magazines and national newspapers.

Christian is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London; and is the Senior Tutor for Research at the Centre for Food Policy. Christian is recognised as a global expert on food loss and waste and sustainable diets. He has worked on these issues in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the UK, US, and Europe. Christian has given evidence to UK and NZ parliaments on FLW and contributed to the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard. Christian also researches sustainable cookery; food history; and the political power of food in international relations.

Amy Culliford is a nutrition consultant, researcher and writer with a passion for sustainable diets and food systems. Amy combines her knowledge and experience in food manufacturing, environmental protection and public health nutrition to deliver scientific knowledge in a practical and understandable way. Amy is the lead author on our new research project on the communication of dietary guidelines working with Dr Jane Bradbury, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition & Health, Applied Health & Social Care, Edge Hill University.

She is passionate about working with local authorities and charities across the UK, and connecting with communities to reinstall the value of honouring cultural foods in healthy ways, whilst also raising awareness of cultural sensitivity and culturally diverse diets to healthcare professionals.

Fareeha has a specialist interest in South Asian diets and provides specialist advice to South Asians across the globe. She is extremely passionate about providing the best available nutrition advice to the people with South Asian background which is what led her to develop the South Asian Eatwell Guide.

She has expertise in healthy eating and sustainable diets for ethnic minority groups. She is also a dietitian with a high social media profile and uses evidence-based nutrition to support communication messages to the public, again focusing on ethnic minority groups, regularly featuring in print, broadcast, and social media.