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Mark Blakeston

June 23, 2021

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Mark is the Grow Yorkshire lead at the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership. Mark has vast experience in supply chain strategy and providing consultancy for tech businesses. He has held director and MD positions in telecommunications businesses as well as being involved in business start-ups. Mark is a trustee with a local Men […]

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Dr Adrian Williams

June 22, 2021

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Adrian’s career started with research into waste management and progressed into a wide range of experimentally-based agri-environmental research including: biological treatment systems, silage conservation, gaseous emission measurement and control, and improved manure management methods. He later concentrated on mathematical modelling, initially using process models, leading to work in whole-farm agri-environmental and systems modelling, and environmental […]

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Professor Peter Ball

June 22, 2021

Peter Ball is Professor of Operations Management at the University of York Management School where he leads on business and community engagement. He researches at the interface between academia and industry. His passion is addressing research challenges and opportunities in manufacturing, especially sustainability. Peter uses modelling and simulation techniques to understand performance as well as […]

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Professor Kate Pickett

June 22, 2021

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Kate is Professor of Epidemiology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Future Health and Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, all at the University of York.  She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018).  Kate’s research focuses on the social determinants of wellbeing and […]

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Anna Taylor

June 22, 2021

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Anna joined the Food Foundation as its first Executive Director at the beginning of June 2015 after five years at the Department for International Development (DFID).  At DFID Anna led the policy team on nutrition and supported the delivery of the UK’s global commitments to tackle undernutrition. Before joining DFID Anna worked for a number […]

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