Professor Sir Charles Godfray
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Professor Sir Charles Godfray is a biologist by background and is currently Director of the interdisciplinary Oxford Martin School at Oxford University. He has a long-standing interest in food systems and chaired the Lead Expert Group of the Government Office of Science’s Foresight Future of Food & Farming Project and recently stepped down as chair of DEFRA’s Science Advisory Council.
Declaration of Interests
Main employment
Oxford University
Other remunerated activities
Current
Climate & Sustainability Adviser, Compass UK&I (Consultancy)
Recent Past
Balzan Foundation, Milan (Prize Committee member, 2010-2022)
Defra (Science Advisory Council chair, 2015-2022)
Nestlé (Speech at conference, 2022)
Non-remunerated activities
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2014 |
Trustee, Food Foundation (charity # 1187611) |
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2016 |
Trustee, Lawes Agricultural Trust (charity # 1156150) |
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2018 |
Member, Innovate UK/BBSRC Food Research Advisory Group |
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2018 |
Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford (charity # 1144032) |
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2021 |
Trustee Director, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (charity # 1185618) |
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2021 |
Member, Advisory Board, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich |
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2020 |
Board Member, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Guelph, Canada |
Memberships
Royal Society
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
American Philosophical Society
Academia Europaea
British Ecological Society
Royal Entomological Society
Linnean Society
Royal Society of Biology
International Academy of Food Science and Technology
Research group funding
Wellcome Trust
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Open Philanthropy Foundation
Natural Environment Research Council
CitiBank
Family
No family conflicts to declare