Professor and Co-Director at the Institute for Sustainable Food, University of Sheffield , UK 

Bhavani Shankar is Professor of Food Systems, Nutrition and Sustainability and Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield, UK. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) and University of Madras (India), respectively. 

Bhavani is an applied economist with a strongly interdisciplinary perspective working on research areas at the intersection of food systems, nutrition and human and planetary health. He has led several large interdisciplinary projects, and much of his research involves collaborations with agricultural, health and environmental scientists. 

Bhavani was team leader for the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) report on 'Reducing Inequalities for Food Security and Nutrition'. He was a former Managing Editor of Food Policy and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Global Food Security and Food Policy . Bhavani was named as one of ten ‘Goalkeepers Champions’ by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for ‘ helping make transformative progress on global nutrition’.

Term ends: 31/12/2028