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Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators

Philippe Caradec, M.S., is the vice president of public and government affairs of Danone North America, the North American business unit of Paris-based Danone. Danone North America was formed in April 2017 by combining the North American businesses of Danone Dairy (including The Dannon Company) and WhiteWave Foods to further the company’s mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible. Mr. Caradec is responsible for federal, state, and local public and government affairs in the United States, as well as the oversight of these subjects for Danone Canada, Danone Waters of America, Happy Family, and Nutricia North America. Prior to joining Danone, he worked as a consultant in Washington, DC, specializing in technical and regulatory matters affecting the imported food and beverage industry. Previously, Mr. Caradec was the assistant agricultural attaché for technical and regulatory affairs at the embassy of France in Washington, DC. He completed graduate studies at the National Superior School of Agronomy in Rennes, France, and an M.S. in food science from Purdue University.

Cynthia Daley, Ph.D., is a professor at the College of Agriculture at California State University, Chico. She currently serves as the Rawlins Endowed Professor for Environmental Literacy Director of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems (CRARS) and as the founder of the Organic Dairy Education & Research Program. CRARS is a consortium of interdisciplinary faculty and farmers who recognize the ecological benefits of regenerative farming practices, including water conservation, soil fertility, and carbon sequestration. The center’s guiding principle

is that agriculture, when done regeneratively, can be the solution to soil degradation and climate change. Dr. Daley completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois and a doctorate at the University of California, Davis.

Paula Daniels, J.D., is the co-founder and the chair of the Board of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, which uses the power of procurement to create a transparent and equitable food system that prioritizes the health and well-being of people, animals, and the environment. This is accomplished through a national network of large institutions who have adopted and implemented the Good Food Purchasing Program. Thirty-two institutions in 15 cities across the United States are now enrolled in this program, which received a 2018 Future Policy Award from the World Future Council. The center partners with many organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements. As a lawyer, Ms. Daniels has held a number of senior positions in government in California, including the senior advisor on food policy to Mayor Villaraigosa of Los Angeles. She has also taught food policy at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; and the Vermont Law School. Ms. Daniels earned a J.D. from the Southwestern University School of Law.

Kristie L. Ebi, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. She conducts research and practice on the health risks of climate variability and change, focusing on understanding sources of vulnerability, estimating current and future health risks of climate change, designing adaptation policies and measures to reduce risks in multistressor environments, and estimating the health co-benefits of mitigation policies. Dr. Ebi has assisted multiple countries in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and the Pacific in assessing their vulnerabilities and implementing adaptation policies and programs. She has been an author on multiple national and international climate change assessments, including the Fourth National Climate Assessment and the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Ebi holds an M.S. in toxicology and an M.P.H. and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where she also completed 2 years of postgraduate research.

Hildreth England, M.S., R.D.N., is a strategist and a designer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, where she focuses primarily on the strategy and integration of inclusive co-design methodologies. She is also the director of PlusMinus, a smart home system,

and co-chair of the MIT Food and Sustainability Working Group. She is exploring how to recast the technology design process to more equitably and intentionally distribute positive impact, especially with and for society’s most marginalized people. As a registered dietitian nutritionist, Ms. England leads participatory design projects that center on diverse and underserved voices in the fields of sustainability, public health, and food and agriculture. Before joining the MIT Media Lab, she spearheaded innovation strategy for Texas WIC (the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children), chaired the city of Austin’s Sustainable Food Policy Board, and served as the assistant director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at MIT. Her design work has been included in the Triennale di Milano, the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Barbican Centre, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Ms. England holds degrees in foreign service from Georgetown University and in nutrition from Texas State University. She was a 2015 fellow of the Masters in Food Innovation Program at the Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Kelsey Freeman Saelens, M.S., is the director of federal government relations at Cargill, Inc., a Minnesota-based agribusiness company. She leads Cargill’s food and nutrition policy agenda and serves as the lead government relations advisor and a federal lobbyist for Cargill’s food ingredient businesses. Prior to coming to Cargill, Ms. Freeman Saelens was Nestlé’s manager of corporate and government affairs, leading the company’s policy agenda on human rights, global food security, ingredient sourcing, international trade, and health care. She has also worked in government affairs at the National Confectioners Association and was a policy fellow for the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Ms. Freeman Saelens holds two degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.P.P. from The George Washington University.

Naomi K. Fukagawa, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Previously, she served as a professor of medicine and the acting director of the gerontology unit at the University of Vermont. Dr. Fukagawa is a board-certified pediatrician and an expert in nutritional biochemistry and metabolism, including protein and energy metabolism, oxidants and antioxidants, and the role of diet in aging and chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. She has served on numerous review panels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), served as the chair of the NIH study section for general clinical research centers, and served on the NIH study section on the integrated physiology of obesity and diabetes. Dr. Fukagawa maintains an active research laboratory where she focuses on the impact of environmental stressors (metabolic or physical) on human health. Specifically, she studies the health effects of exposure to

petrodiesel and biodiesel exhaust; the potential of diet to mitigate the adverse effects of environmental stressors; and, while addressing these issues, maintaining adequate food production in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. Dr. Fukagawa holds an M.D. from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Catherine L. Kling, Ph.D., is the Tisch University Professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the faculty director at the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University. She is the past director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University, where she also held the president’s chair in environmental economics. Dr. Kling has published nearly 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters, which have received more than 8,000 citations, and she is the editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. She specializes in the economic valuation of ecosystem services and integrated assessment models for water quality modeling, and she receives support for her research from a wide range of agencies. Dr. Kling chairs the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has served on six of its studies. She has also served as the president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, held editorial positions at 10 economics journals, and received 7 awards from professional associations for her research. Dr. Kling is an elected fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resources Economists and the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, and she is a university fellow at Resources for the Future. She served for 10 years on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Kling holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Matt Liebman, Ph.D., is a professor of agronomy and the Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Prior to this position, he was on the faculty at the University of Maine. Dr. Liebman is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, and he served on the committee of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council that produced the 2015 report A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System. He is also a member of the board of directors for Wheatsfield Cooperative Grocery in Ames, Iowa. Dr. Liebman’s research, teaching, and outreach activities focus on ways to improve environmental quality and agricultural productivity while reducing dependence on agrichemicals and fossil fuels. His specific interests include diversified cropping systems; weed ecology and management; and the use of native prairie species for biofuel production and soil, water, and wildlife conservation. Dr. Liebman holds an A.B. in biological sciences from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California, Berkeley.

D. Julian McClements, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He specializes in the areas of food biopolymers and colloids, particularly the development of food-based structured delivery systems for bioactive components. Dr. McClements is the author of numerous books, including Future Foods: How Modern Science Is Transforming the Way We Eat; three editions of Food Emulsions: Principles, Practices, and Techniques; and Nanoparticle and MicroparticleBased Delivery Systems: Encapsulation, Protection and Release of Active Compounds. In addition, he has published more than 1,000 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as numerous book chapters and conference proceedings, and he holds 12 patents. Dr. McClements has received awards in recognition of his scientific achievements from the American Chemical Society, the American Oil Chemists’ Society, the Society of Chemical Industry, the Institute of Food Technologists, and the University of Massachusetts. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society (Agricultural and Food Division), and the Institute of Food Technologists. Dr. McClements’s research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the food industry. He completed a Ph.D. in food science at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and postdoctoral research at the University of Leeds; the University of California, Davis; and the University College Cork, Ireland.

Carrie McMahon, Ph.D., is a consumer safety officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this capacity, she is responsible for managing submissions to FDA’s food ingredient programs. Dr. McMahon’s scientific expertise includes food ingredient safety assessment, and her regulatory expertise is focused on the food ingredient provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. On a daily basis, she works with teams of scientific reviewers to evaluate the data and information submitted by the food industry supporting the safe use of new ingredients. In addition, Dr. McMahon frequently assists with educational outreach to consumers, to the food industry, and to foreign governments. She earned a B.A. in biology from Drew University and a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rosamond (Roz) Naylor, Ph.D., M.Sc., is the William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science, a professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Economics, and the founding director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, all at Stanford University. Her research focuses on policies and practices to improve global food security and protect the environment on land and at sea, and she works with students in many locations around

the world. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed papers, Dr. Naylor has published two books on her work: The Evolving Sphere of Food Security and The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests. She is a fellow of the Ecological Society of America; a marine fellow of The Pew Charitable Trusts; a Leopold leadership fellow of the Earth Leadership Program; a fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics; and a member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society. Dr. Naylor serves as the president of the board of directors for the Aspen Global Change Institute and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Oceana. She earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and environmental science from the University of Colorado, an M.A. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University.

Christian Peters, Ph.D., M.S., is an associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. He teaches in the agriculture, food, and environment program, offering courses in agricultural science and policy and in food systems modeling. Dr. Peters studies the sustainability of food systems using computational modeling and interdisciplinary research. He is interested in understanding how dietary patterns influence sustainability, how much food can be supplied through locally and regionally scaled systems, and how transdisciplinary approaches can help design and study such systems. Dr. Peters is engaged in multiple collaborative research projects on regional food systems and sustainable diets. Some of his best known work includes the development of a framework for estimating the land requirements of diets and human carrying capacity and a spatial modeling approach for mapping potential foodsheds. Dr. Peters holds a B.S. in environmental sciences from Rutgers University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in soil and crop sciences from Cornell University.

John R. Porter, Ph.D., D.Sc., is a scientific consultant of One Planet Fellowship at the Agropolis Fondation in Montepellier, France. He is also a consultant professor to the University of Montpellier and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier, as well as an emeritus professor of climate change and food security at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Porter’s main contribution has been multidisciplinary and collaborative experimental and modeling work in the response of arable crops, energy crops, and complex agroecosystems to their environment with an emphasis on climate change, ecosystem services, and food systems. He has published approximately 170 papers in peer-reviewed journals with more than 19,000 citations, and he and his research group have received numerous international prizes. Dr. Porter led the writing of the chapter on food production systems and food security for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which formed an important

scientific bedrock of the Convention on Climate Change agreement in 2015, known as the Paris Agreement. He has recently become a member of an interdisciplinary international working group on postgrowth economics, and he is a founding member of the Advanced Research Institute at the University of Montpellier. Dr. Porter holds a B.Sc. first class and a Ph.D. from the University of Wales and a D.Sc. from the University of Copenhagen.

Pradeep Prabhala, M.B.A., is a partner at McKinsey & Company in Washington, DC. As a leader in McKinsey’s agriculture and food practice, he serves public-, private-, and social-sector clients across the food system. Mr. Prabhala has worked in more than 45 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. He is passionate about resolving global food system–related sustainability, inclusivity, and nutrition challenges through his client work. Most recently, Mr. Prabhala has been helping clients in the food sector adopt digital technologies and data and analytics to improve organizational performance and impact. He is an advisor to the New Vision for Agriculture initiative of the World Economic Forum and has published extensively on food system issues. Prior to being a consultant, Mr. Prabhala spent several years at Unilever in India. He holds an undergraduate mechanical engineering degree from Osmania University in India and an M.B.A. from the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Delhi.

Cynthia Rosenzweig, Ph.D., M.S., is a senior research scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and heads the Climate Impacts group at NASA. She is also a senior research scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research, an Earth Institute center of Columbia University, and she is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College. Dr. Rosenzweig is also the co-founder and a member of the executive committee of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project. She was the coordinating lead author on the food security chapter in the Special Report on Climate Change and Land of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the coordinating lead author on observed climate change impacts for the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report. Dr. Rosenzweig was also the co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, and she co-led the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. She is the lead editor on the Urban Climate Change Research Network Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities, and she was named as one of Nature’s Ten People Who Mattered in 2012. Dr. Rosenzweig earned an M.S. in soils and crops from Rutgers University and

a Ph.D. in plant, soil, and environmental sciences from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Sylvia Rowe, M.A.T., is the president of SR Strategy, which addresses the continuum from science to communications to policy on a broad range of global food system issues, including agriculture, food, nutrition, and sustainability. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Ms. Rowe serves on the Food and Nutrition Board and the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and she served on the National Academies’ Committee on the Science of Science Communication. She is a contributing editor and columnist of Nutrition Today, serves on the Tufts Nutrition Council, and is an honorary member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Previously, Ms. Rowe served as the president and the chief executive officer of the International Food Information Council (IFIC) and the IFIC Foundation in Washington, DC. She has served on boards and advisory committees of the American Heart Association; the Obesity Society; the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network; the American Society for Nutrition; the Mayor’s Commission on Food, Nutrition and Health (Washington, DC); the Grains for Health Foundation; the University of Rochester Medical Center; the Food and Drug Law Institute; the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Foundation; the Maryland Title IX Commission; and the American Society of Association Executives Foundation. Ms. Rowe holds a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and a master’s degree from Harvard University, both with honors.

Ricardo Salvador, Ph.D., M.S., is the director and the senior scientist for the Food and Environment Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He began his career with the Texas A&M University Extension Service and later joined the agronomy faculty at Iowa State University (ISU). At ISU, Dr. Salvador helped establish the first graduate program in sustainable agriculture in the United States, which he chaired. Subsequently, he was the program officer for food, health, and well-being at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Dr. Salvador earned an undergraduate degree in agricultural science from New Mexico State University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in crop production and physiology from Iowa State University.

Patrick J. Stover, Ph.D., is the vice chancellor at Texas A&M AgriLife and the dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University. At Texas A&M AgriLife, he oversees coordination and collaboration of the agriculture, academic, and research programs across the Texas A&M University system. Dr. Stover also oversees four Texas A&M agencies:

AgriLife Research, AgriLife Extension Service, Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, and the Forest Service. As the director of AgriLife Research, he oversees 13 research centers across the state with a research portfolio of more than 500 projects and $214.2 million in annual research funding. As the dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Dr. Stover leads more than 7,000 students and 330 faculty members in 15 academic departments. He previously directed the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. An international leader in biochemistry and nutrition, Dr. Stover’s research is focused on the biochemical, genetic, and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie the relationships between folic acid and human pathologies, such as developmental anomalies, neuropathies, and cancer. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the former president of the American Society for Nutrition. Dr. Stover has served two terms on the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from the Medical College of Virginia.

Norbert Wilson, Ph.D., M.Sc., is a professor of food, economics, and community at Duke Divinity School and a professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. His research centers on food choice and food waste. Dr. Wilson uses experimental economics to explore how date labels influence future food waste, as well as behavioral underpinnings of food choice. He studies differences in food security across groups in the United States. Additionally, he has worked on food safety and quality issues in international trade and domestic food systems. He has published widely in economics and policy journals, including analyses of coffee quality and prices. Previously, Dr. Wilson held positions at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, and at Auburn University. He also served as an economist and policy analyst in the Trade and Agriculture Directorates of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France. Dr. Wilson holds a master’s degree in agricultural economics from Wye College, University of London, where he was a Rotary international fellow, and a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Davis.

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