Professor Sir Charles Godfray

Biography

Charles Godfray is Professor of Population Biology and Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford where he also leads the School’s Future of Food Programme. He has broad research interests including ecology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology, and the interplay of science and policy.

He served as chair of the Lead Expert Group of the Foresight Project on the Future of Food (2011), chaired Defra’s Science Advisory Council (2015 to 2021) and has been President of the British Ecological Society (2009 to 2011).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.