Our people
Find out about the people involved in work at the Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI).
Executive team
Our executive team set the strategic direction for the GFEI:
- Professor Stephen Whitfield, Interim Director
- Professor Stefan Kepinski, Associate Director for Agriculture and Environment
- Dr Effie Papargyropoulou, Associate Director for Urban Food Systems
- Professor Sara González, Associate Director for Urban Food Systems
- Professor Chee Yew Wong, Associate Director for Leeds University Business School
- Professor Yun Yun Gong, Associate Director for Faculty of Environment
- Dr Roxana Barbulescu, Associate Director for Faculty of Social Sciences
- Dr Ruth Wade, Associate Director for Faculty of Biological Sciences
Operations team
- Dr Sarah Dennis, Institute Manager
- Victoria Hood, Communications Manager
- Valerie Stephenson-Lewis, Administrator and PA to Professor Stephen Whitfield
- Terrence Mavuso, Research Impact and Engagement Support Officer
- Dr Siân Evans, Research and Innovation Development Manager
- Dr Gesa Reiss, Smart Agri-Systems Senior Innovation Fellow
External Advisory Board
- Professor Fiona Smith, Professorial Research Fellow at the UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO), University of Sussex
- Sue Davies, Strategic Policy Advisor, Which?
- Dan Crossley, Executive Director, Food Ethics Council
- James Hopwood, Director – Agriculture, Grower Relations, McCain Foods
- Jemma Hynes, CEO & Technical Director, FoodSync
- Sithembile "Thembi" Mwamakamba, Director of Policy Research and Analysis, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
- Polly Cook, Chief Officer – Sustainable Energy and Air Quality, Leeds City Council
- Dhanush Dinesh, Founder, Clim-Eat
Contact us
For more information about the GFEI, please email the Global Food and Environment Institute via globalfood@leeds.ac.uk.