Dr Jessica Fanzo

Jessica Fanzo is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, she holds appointments in the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She also serves as the interim Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs at SAIS. She is the Editor-in-Chief for the Global Food Security Journal and leads on the development of the Food Systems Dashboard. From 2016-2021, Fanzo served on the Food Systems Economic Commission, the EAT-Lancet Commission, as Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report and Team Leader for the UN High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Systems and Nutrition. She has also held positions at Columbia University, the FAO, the UN World Food Programme, Bioversity International, and the World Agroforestry Center in Kenya. In 2021, she published her first book, Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?