Shaping the food and drink sustainability transition
Sustainable Foods is back in January 2025, cementing its reputation as the global platform to accelerate the adoption of sustainable food and drink systems. The senior, leading strategic summit welcomes key decision-makers that are setting the agenda and driving change within the food and drink sustainability transition. Welcoming global policy makers, regulators, C-level executives of major food and drink conglomerates, financiers, and investors, Sustainable Foods is the conference that provides real change, networking opportunities and business outcomes for the sector.
The upcoming 4th edition of Sustainable Foods will be the biggest event to date, featuring a C-level conference, a bustling exhibition, as well as the inaugural Sustainable Foods Awards! Register today for your super early-bird ticket and we look forward to welcoming you in 2025.
Steering Committee
Jack Bobo
Centre Lead & Director, Food Systems Institute
University of Nottingham
Jack Bobo
Centre Lead & Director, Food Systems Institute
University of Nottingham
Helen Browning
CEO
Soil Association
Helen Browning
CEO
Soil Association
Helen farms in a family partnership on a mostly tenanted organic farm in Wiltshire with dairy, beef, pigs, cereals, agroforestry and small scale horticulture. Her products are sold through the Helen Browning’s Organic brand in retailers as well as through her hotel and restaurant/pub on the farm.
Her book ‘PIG; tales from an organic farm’, written with her partner Tim Finney, tells more about the trials and tribulations of their farming and food life.
She has been Chief Executive of the Soil Association since 2011, after a long involvement with the charity in a variety of exec and non-exec roles. Prior to rejoining the Soil Association, Helen was Director of External Affairs for the National Trust.
She is currently a Commissioner and trustee of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission and has had a number of roles in agri-politics over the years, including the Government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (‘the Curry Commission’), chaired the England Animal Health and Welfare Implementation Group and the Food Ethics Council. Helen was awarded an OBE in 1998 for her services to organic farming.
Robin Clark
Senior Global Director, ESG & Sustainability
Just Eat
Robin Clark
Senior Global Director, ESG & Sustainability
Just Eat
Robin grew up as a retailer, running commercial categories for both M&S and Tesco between 1998 and 2015. He joined Just Eat UK in 2015 to set up their restaurant partner perks programme building value through partnerships beginning with food wholesale, finance, card payments & utilities. Other areas of responsibility followed from sustainability and FMCG to grocery and partner e-commerce
Ivan Farneti
Managing Partner
Five Seasons Ventures
Ivan Farneti
Managing Partner
Five Seasons Ventures
Ivan has been an active venture capital investor for the last 25 years and he is the co-founder of Five Seasons Ventures, the first European venture fund fully focused on consumer Foodtech.
He is passionate about product and technology innovation aimed at solving big challenges in the food industry: from alternative sources of proteins, to functional foods, from new models of food distribution, to the reduction of food waste. At Five Seasons he invested, among others, in Butternut Box (DNVB pet nutrition), THIS.co (plant-based meat alternatives), Cortilia (D2C fresh food retailer), La Fourche (D2C organic groceries), Air-Up (reusable water bottle + flavour pods), KoRo (D2C natural healthy snaking), YFood Labs (meal replacements) and Just Spices (D2C spices; acq. by Kraft Heinz)
His experience includes structuring investments, organizational and strategy development, setting up governance for growth and planning for successful exits.
In his spare time, he enjoys family life, fly fishing, and practicing jiu-jitsu with his son Adam.
Dr Emma Keller
Head of Sustainability
Nestlé UK&I
Dr Emma Keller
Head of Sustainability
Nestlé UK&I
Dr Emma Keller is Head of Sustainability for Nestlé UK&I, focusing on delivering the ambitious net zero climate commitment and driving the business to be a force for good. Prior to joining Nestlé, Emma led a team at WWF on food system transformation and before that was in Unilever’s sustainability team working on bringing the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan to life. She also holds a doctorate in supply chain sustainability.
Dr Emma Keller
Head of Sustainability
Nestlé UK&I
Dr Emma Keller
Head of Sustainability
Nestlé UK&I
Dr Emma Keller is Head of Sustainability for Nestlé UK&I, focusing on delivering the ambitious net zero climate commitment and driving the business to be a force for good. Prior to joining Nestlé, Emma led a team at WWF on food system transformation and before that was in Unilever’s sustainability team working on bringing the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan to life. She also holds a doctorate in supply chain sustainability.
Ivo Mulder
Head, Climate Finance Unit
UNEP
Ivo Mulder
Head, Climate Finance Unit
UNEP
Ivo leads UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit (CFU), and oversees a growing portfolio of various initiatives and finance facilities that actively unlock public and especially private capital towards sustainable land use with positive impacts for the climate, nature and people. The team consists of 20 staff and consultants based in Geneva, Nairobi, Jakarta and Cambridge.
Since its inception, CFU has raised more than $70 million in public funding for a variety of blended finance facilities, unlocking more than $200 million in private capital for long-term impact lending and impact investment, with a target of reaching +USD 1 billion in private finance for ‘net zero, nature positive’ agriculture, forestry and land restoration by 2025. This includes initiatives such as the AGRI3 Fund (set up by Rabobank, UNEP, Mirova, FOUNT, Cardano and IDH) that stimulates long-term impact lending by providing guarantees to banks that finance corporate clients and farmers when they are able to achieve positive impacts on nature, climate and local communities, as well as a growing portfolio of business solutions to finance landscape restoration.
UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit has contributed to the capitalisation of the &Green Fund though the GEF ‘non-grant’ window (which closed several innovate deals in rubber, palm oil and soy/cattle), and created the Restoration Seed Capital Facility (RSCF) that stimulate impact investment by private equity funds in forest and land scape restoration. Lastly, CFU supports the Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (set up by BNP Paribas, ADM Capital, UNEP, ICRAF), including a Grant Fund to build a pipeline of projects in Indonesia.
In addition, CFU advances UNEP’s normative work for example with the launch of the ‘State of Finance for Nature’ report and forthcoming publications on the need to repurpose agricultural subsidies, but also creating business and finance coalitions such as the recently-launched ‘Good Food Finance Network’ on the back of the UN Food Systems Summit (by UNEP, WBCSD, EAT Foundation, FAIRR, Food Systems f/t Future).
Ivo Mulder co-founded together with Global Canopy the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA) that was launched at the Rio+20 Earth Summit and signed by CEOs of more than 40 finance institutions. It paved the way for the newly-created Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD), the nature equivalent to the TCFD. Ivo also sits on various steering committees.
Ivo Mulder has over sixteen years of professional experience working for UNEP, private consulting firms and with non-governmental organisations. He has published more than fifty reports, blogs and articles and sits on the Steering Committee of a number of initiatives. Ivo is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and a member of the Dutch Association of Sustainable Investors (VBDO). During his free time, he pursues a variety of outdoor sports such as triathlon, diving, alpine skiing and mountain hiking.
Prof Ian Noble
Vice President R&D
Mondelēz International
Prof Ian Noble
Vice President R&D
Mondelēz International
Richard Profit
CEO
Cool Farm
Richard Profit
CEO
Cool Farm
Jack Bobo
Centre Lead & Director, Food Systems Institute
University of Nottingham
Jack Bobo
Centre Lead & Director, Food Systems Institute
University of Nottingham
Helen Browning
CEO
Soil Association
Helen Browning
CEO
Soil Association
Helen farms in a family partnership on a mostly tenanted organic farm in Wiltshire with dairy, beef, pigs, cereals, agroforestry and small scale horticulture. Her products are sold through the Helen Browning’s Organic brand in retailers as well as through her hotel and restaurant/pub on the farm.
Her book ‘PIG; tales from an organic farm’, written with her partner Tim Finney, tells more about the trials and tribulations of their farming and food life.
She has been Chief Executive of the Soil Association since 2011, after a long involvement with the charity in a variety of exec and non-exec roles. Prior to rejoining the Soil Association, Helen was Director of External Affairs for the National Trust.
She is currently a Commissioner and trustee of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission and has had a number of roles in agri-politics over the years, including the Government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (‘the Curry Commission’), chaired the England Animal Health and Welfare Implementation Group and the Food Ethics Council. Helen was awarded an OBE in 1998 for her services to organic farming.
Robin Clark
Senior Global Director, ESG & Sustainability
Just Eat
Robin Clark
Senior Global Director, ESG & Sustainability
Just Eat
Robin grew up as a retailer, running commercial categories for both M&S and Tesco between 1998 and 2015. He joined Just Eat UK in 2015 to set up their restaurant partner perks programme building value through partnerships beginning with food wholesale, finance, card payments & utilities. Other areas of responsibility followed from sustainability and FMCG to grocery and partner e-commerce
Jack Bobo
Centre Lead & Director, Food Systems Institute
University of Nottingham
Jack Bobo
Centre Lead & Director, Food Systems Institute
University of Nottingham
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Aims and Objectives of Sustainable Foods
- Accelerate the adoption of sustainable food systems.
- Support effective dialogue, communication and exchange between policymakers and private sector leaders to transform the global food system.
- Showcase new and innovative technologies and solutions that advance the future of sustainable food and drink.
- Encourage the sharing of best practice, new methodologies, and case studies across the industry.
- Stimulate commercial and consumer demand for sustainable food products.
- Identify and grow new export opportunities in sustainable food production for international markets.
- Support the allocation of international capital towards sustainable businesses, products and services that drive positive change.
- Ensure that all food production, from production and processing, through to transport, consumption and waste is done in a manner that enhances biodiversity, encourages better nutrition and health, and protects the finite resources of our planet.
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