Professor Chris Elliott – Founder, Institute for Global Food Security, Queens University Belfast

Chris is the founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast and is an Honorary Professor there now. He is also Professor of Food Security at Thammasat University in Thailand. Chris has published over 600 peer-reviewed articles on the detection and control of agriculture, food, and environmental-related contaminants and adulterants which have been cited over 24,000 times. He led the independent review of Britain’s food system following the 2013 horsemeat scandal and now acts as a scientific advisor for a range of United Nations Agencies, governments, and industries on a range of food security topics.

Over the years Chris has developed a high level network of collaborators across Europe, the United States , the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He is a recipient of a Winston Churchill Fellowship and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Society of Biology. Chris has received numerous prizes and awards for his work such as the Royal Society of Chemistry Theophilus Redwood Prize and an OBE in 2017. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2020 and became Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in 2021 and Honorary President of the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology in 2023. Chris was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna in 2024.

Chris authors the regular Chris’ Corner column for New Food.