Meeting Minds - You Are What You Eat: Building a planet-friendly plate
Saturday, 20 September 2025, 1.30pm to 2.30pm
Sign up nowDiscover how shifting towards healthier, more sustainable diets isn't just good for us, but essential for the planet. Leading experts will host a lively conversation on how smart research, bold policies, and practical interventions can transform our food systems.
Chair: Susan Jebb OBE
Professor of Diet and Population Health at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Chair of the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency
Sarah Bradbury
CEO, Institute of Grocery Distribution
Sarah Halevy
Food Systems Systems Specialist, WWF-UK
Mette Morsing
Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Professor of Business Sustainability
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Susan is a public health nutrition scientist with a particular interest in the translation of scientific evidence into policy and practice. She leads a large applied research team studying how we can support healthier and more sustainable diets to improve the health of people and the planet. |
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Sarah brings over 25 years of unparalleled experience in the retail and food sectors. Currently, she leads IGD, an influential organisation that has been helping to inspire and unite the food industry for more than 120 years. IGD is a strategic insights and foresight business, reinvesting all profits into impactful initiatives that benefit both the industry and society at large. Throughout her career, Sarah has held senior commercial and marketing positions, including her previous role as Group Quality Director at Tesco. There, she was responsible for overseeing the delivery of high-quality safe products, sustainability, agriculture and regulatory compliance. It was in this role that Sarah honed her passion for driving collaborative change, mobilising the food and consumer goods sectors as a force for good, and working to improve the food system for the long term. |
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Sarah is a Food Systems Specialist at WWF-UK, leading science-based initiatives to transform food systems. She focuses on protein transition and sustainable diets, providing evidence-based guidance, shaping strategy, and fostering cross-sector collaboration to drive systemic change aligned with international sustainability goals. |
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Mette has served on numerous boards, committees and councils with regards to sustainable development and her research has won several international recognitions. She was previously the Head of the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), UN Global Compact, where she led the United Nation’s largest initiative on responsible management education with more than 800 business school and university signatories signed up to advance sustainability in leadership education. |