Organiser's description (via the University of Warwick):
Join the School of Life Sciences and renowned scientist Professor Tim Benton to explore the global challenge of navigating food security in an increasingly volatile world.
About the speaker
Professor Tim G. Benton is Distinguished Fellow in the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House, having served as Research Director and head of the Centre (2019-24). He first joined Chatham House in 2016 as a visiting fellow, at which time he was also dean of strategic research initiatives at the University of Leeds. From 2011-2016 he was the ‘champion’ of the UK’s Global Food Security programme which was a multi-agency partnership of the UK’s public bodies (government departments, devolved governments and research councils) with an interest in the challenges around food.
As a leading advocate on food systems transformation, he has worked with UK governments, the EU, G20 and a range of other governments around the world, as well as leading businesses and civil society organisations. He has been a global agenda steward of the World Economic Forum, and was an author of the IPCC’s Special Report on Food, Land and Climate (2019), and the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessment (2017, 2022).
He has published more than 200 academic papers, many tackling how systems respond to environmental change. His work on sustainability leadership has been recognized with an honorary fellowship of the UK’s Society for the Environment, and a doctorate honoris causa from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He also remains a (part time) Research Professor at the University of Leeds.
The lecture will be hosted at the state-of-the-art Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building on the Gibbet Hill campus. Drinks will be served before the event.
