Professor of Food Chain Nutrition and is the Director of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health. He is a member of a number of related external bodies, for example, forming part of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Nutrition Foundation. His recently published paper, “Review: Dairy foods, red meat and processed meat in the diet: implications for health at key life stages,” is based on invited contributions to the First Global Farm Platform conference (www.globalfarmplatform.org) in 2016, and the annual meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (www.eap.org), also in 2016.