Project team:
WP 1 Transformation scenarios and systemic risks
Tom Oliver is a Professor of Applied Ecology and the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Environment) at the University of Reading.
Carol Wagstaff is the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Agriculture, Food and Health) at the University of Reading. Carol leads a research group that takes a food-system wide approach to improving the quality of fresh produce and ensuring that everyone has access to it.
She co-Directed the BBSRC Horticulture Quality and Food Loss Network and the AgriFood Training Partnership. She leads FoodSEqual, one of four projects funded as part of a £48 million investment by government into transforming the UK food system, which aims to co-produce healthy, sustainable food systems for disadvantaged communities, and its subsidiary project FoodSEqual-Health.
Carol provided expert advice to Defra on the 2024 UK Food Security Review and the emerging Food Strategy, she is co-leading the Land, Nature and Food Chapter of the 4th UK Climate Change Risk Assessment and she Chairs the BBSRC Sustainable Agriculture and Food Strategy Advisory Panel.
Yong Sebastian Nyam is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Reading. Yong is an Economist passionate about agricultural transformation, rural development, poverty reduction, and climate change. With over 6 years of hands-on experience, his operational and analytical work focuses on integrated water resource management, agricultural economics, and disaster risk reduction using both systems thinking and econometric analytical approaches.
Elena Carp is a Research Project Manager at the University of Reading.
WP 2 Role of finance in resilience and transformation
Nicola Ranger is a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute. She is also Executive Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Systemic Resilience and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking of the Oxford Martin School.
Juan Sabuco is a Senior Research Associate at the Oxford Martin School.
WP 3 Fruit and veg production resilience
Jake Bishop is a Lecturer in Crop Science and Production at the University of Reading. He is responsible for developing and testing different transformative portfolios of UK fruit and vegetable production to build resilience to a number of risks.
Luke Bell is a Lecturer in Temperate Horticulture at the University of Reading, specialising in crop science, plant biology and food chemistry. He holds a PhD in Food & Nutritional Science and an MSc in Plant & Environmental Science, and has developed a strong research portfolio focused on improving crop resilience, enhancing agricultural practices, and optimizing the nutritional quality of produce.
Francisco Areal is a Professor in Economics at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Francisco’s research focuses on the interaction between agriculture, the environment, economics and society. Francisco has extensive expertise in developing and applying statistical and econometric methods to answer questions of policy relevance for agriculture and the environment.
WP 4 Maths of supply chain resilience
Marcus Tindall is a Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Reading. His primary interest is in the mathematical modelling of biological and biomedical systems.
WP 5 Econometric modelling of transition risks
Chittur Srinivasan is a Professor of Agri-Food Economics at the University of Reading.