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Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University’s Centre for Food Policy which specialises in how public and private policy shapes the food supply chain, what people eat and the societal, health, and environmental consequences.
After a doctorate in social psychology, Tim Lang was a hill farmer for seven years in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, before turning to the policy aspects of food. He combines research / observation with active policy making, working with public sector, non-profit and civil society organisations.
Tim leads our work on Natural Resources and Land Use.
When Director of the London Food Commission (1984-90), he helped found Sustain, the NGO alliance which now has over 100 member organisations and was chair 1999-2005. He is a frequent advisor / consultant to the World Health Organisation at global and European levels. He has been a special advisor to four Parliamentary agriculture and/or health select committee inquiries (food standards [twice], globalisation and obesity). He is an advisor to the Office of Science & Technology Foresight Obesity programme, and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) ‘Food Supply in the 21st Century’ Working Party. In 2005-06, he chaired the Scottish NHS Executive’s Scottish Diet Action Plan Review of food and health in Scotland.
He is the author of numerous books, articles and reports. He is co-author, with Erik Millstone, of The Atlas of Food (Earthscan, 2003) which won the André Simon award for 2004, and with Michael Heasman of Food Wars (Earthscan, 2004). He won the Caroline Walker award in 2002 and in 2003 the BBC Radio 4 Food & Farming Derek Cooper award. With City University colleagues, he is writing a book for Oxford University Press on food policy.
Direct Pecuniary Interests
Professor of Food Policy, City University
Indirect Pecuniary Interests
Advisor - The Co-operative Group (as Centre for Food Policy)
Columnist - The Grocer
Non-Pecuniary Interests
Vice-President, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Trustee, Food Commission Charity
Director, Rodale Institute (USA)
Member, London Cycling Campaign, Society of Social Medicine, Garden Organic and UK Public Health Alliance
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