Project Advisory Board
Advised by an group of prominent scientists: the project advisory board
SUSFANS focuses on complex questions that span across multiple disciplines.The research approach aims to define a holistic, integrated and coherent vision of what entails sustainable food and nutrition security in the EU and globally. It underpins a perspective on how EU policies on farming, fishing, food and nutrition could contribute to that vision with greater efficacy than today.
For this project it is of the utmost importance to be challenged and advised by an independent group of prominent scientists. We are proud and grateful that the following renowned scientists are members of the SUSFANS Project Advisory Board:
- Professor Jacqueline Broerse, Professor of Innovation and Communication in health & life sciences (with a specific focus on diversity and inclusion), Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Dr John Ingram, Food Systems Programme Leader, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
- Professor Monique Raats, Director of the Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre and Associate Dean Research and Innovation for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (FHMS), University of Surrey
- Further Scientist in a governmental public health institute
Role of the Project Advisory Board
The Project Advisory Board (PAB) will engage in the following activities:
- Scientific review of, and reflection on key project deliverables;
- Challenging the SUSFANS team and supporting the scientific dialogue via participation in selected project workshops and meetings – typically in and around the annual consortium meeting:
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Strengthening the impact of the project in two ways:
- by safeguarding a proper balance between the scientific rigour of SUSFANS methods for analysing sustainable food and nutrition security and the ability to implement these methods in a European policy context, both in European institutions and within member states;
- by acting as an ambassador the project and its philosophy in professional networks.
Advisory Board meeting and project involvment
The Advisory Board will be chaired by one of its members and will meet at least once a year, back to back with a consortium meeting. The board will be supported by the existing project secretariat at Wageningen Economic Research. The expected involvement on a yearly basis is as follows:
- Review of 3 project papers
- Participation in the annual consortium meeting
- Participation in an adjacent meeting of the Project Advisory Board
- Participation in 2 telephone conferences
- Optional: participation in stakeholder meetings.
Board members
Dr Karen Cooper, R&D manager for sustainable nutrition at Nestlé and Manager Food Systems Transformation at the FReSH (Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) programme of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Expertise: food systems analysis, international scaling (has resigned from SUSFANS in 2016)
Professor Monique Raats is Director of the Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre and Associate Dean Research and Innovation for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (FHMS), University of Surrey
Expertise: psychology of nutrition, consumer response to food guidelines, science with impact
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H2020-SFS-2014-2,
Grant 633692