UN Food Systems Summit: reasons for hope but more work to do
Insight, 07 August 2025
Duncan Williamson
Duncan Williamson was IIED's food systems lead and principal researcher until August 2025
Specialist in sustainable food systems with over 20 years’ experience working with organisations as varied as WWF, Forum for the Future, Action Against Hunger and Rainforest Alliance.
Expertise
Sustainable diets, agroecology and agrobiodiversity.
Before IIED
- Chief advisor sustainable gastronomy, Barilla Foundation
- Founder and director, Nourishing Food Systems
- Head of food systems transformation, Forum for the Future
- Food crisis researcher and climate change lead, Action Against Hunger
- Global head of policy and research, Compassion in World Farming
- Head of food, WWF UK
Education
- MSC, sustainable environmental management
- BA (Hons), philosophy
- Cert – Key issues in development studies
