Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University, London and specialises in how policy shapes the food supply chain, what people eat and food\'s societal, health and environmental outcomes. After a doctorate in social psychology, he was a hill farmer for 7 years in Lancashire, since when he has had a long involvement in active policy making, working with the public sector and civil society, as well as research.
When Director of the London Food Commission (1984-90) he helped found what was has become Sustain. He is a frequent advisor/consultant to the World Health Organisation at global and European levels. He has been a special advisor to 4 parliamentary select committee inquiries (food standards, GATT and obesity). He is an advisor to the 2005-06 Chief Scientist's Foresight Obesity programme, and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs working party on 21st Century Food Supply.
In 2005-06 he chaired the Scottish NHS Executive's Scottish Diet Action Plan Review (of Food and Health in Scotland). He was appointed Natural Resources, Agriculture and Rural Commissioner on the Sustainable Development Commission in June 2006. In 2002 he won the Caroline Walker award. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians.
Publications include: Co-author with Erik Millstone, The Atlas of Food (Earthscan, 2003); co-author with Michael Heasman, Food Wars (Earthscan, 2004).
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