Roberta Sonnino is Professor of Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Surrey (UK). Over her career, she has produced more than 100 publications on sustainable food, some of which have been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean.
Professor Sonnino has an established track record of creating impact and engagement at the interface of food systems research and policy. In recent years, she has been Vice-Chair of the FOOD2030 Expert Group, which led the development of four priority areas of the FOOD 2030 European research framework; lead author of FAO’s Framework for the Urban Food Agenda, and Rapporteur of the High Level Expert Group assembled by the EC to explore ways to improve food systems governance through more effective science-policy- society-interfaces.
Professor Sonnino is currently principal investigator of the €12m FOODCLIC project, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme, researching the transformation of city-region food systems in European and African city-regions..
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