Montpellier, France, October 07-09 2026
2026-10-07 10:00:00
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Reynolds_Christian_EGEA 2023

REYNOLDS Christian

City St Georges, University of London, United Kingdom

  • Christian Reynolds is a Reader in Food Policy at the Centre for Food Policy, City St Georges University, London; and is the Senior Tutor for Research at the Centre for Food Policy.
  • Christian is recognised as a global expert on food loss and waste and sustainable diets and has worked on these issues in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the UK, US, and Europe.
  • Christian is the lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (2019); he has also co-authored over 50 peer reviewed publications, as well as multiple reports and book chapters. Christian has given evidence to UK and NZ parliaments on FLW and contributed to the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard. Christian also researches sustainable cookery; food history; and the political power of food in international relations.
  • From 2025 to 2026, Christian is the co-Investigator of “Joined Up Landscapes”; part of the £15 million Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) programme, funded by UKRI and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Joined Up Landscapes seeks to optimise the role of nature-based solutions in the UK for climate adaptation. It is one of six transdisciplinary research projects alongside a climate change adaptation hub, led by King’s College London.
  • From 2024-2030, Christian is the lead of Platform 5 “Trust in Food Systems” of the Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems. The Co-Centre is managed jointly by Queen’s University Belfast, University of Sheffield and University College Dublin, the Co-Centre brings together world-leading researchers from across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain for the first time. Platform 5 focuses on the integration of data to map the food system and undertake scenario modelling to realise improvements in food production, processing and consumption.
  • From 2017 to 2020, Christian was employed WRAP as Technical Specialist in international food sustainability. In 2017-18 Christian worked on integrating healthy sustainable eating and food waste reduction messages on a wide variety of projects including the EU-LIFE funded TRiFOCAL project. From 2018-2020 Christian moved to the WRAP Global team, working on Food Waste and Sustainable Eating, working on the REFRESH project, and with multiple global partners including the World Bank, NRDC, and WWF.

Recent publications:

  1. Kelly NM, et al. Mismatches between UK food supply and dietary guidelines: A dietary gap assessment. Public Health Nutr. 2025 Jul 10:1-26.
  2. Crowe S, et al. Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of Population-Wide Adoption of Dietary Guidelines in China. Nutr Bull. 2025 Jun;50(2):326-339.
  3. Kandemir, C., et al. Using discrete event simulation to explore food wasted in the home. Journal of Simulation, 2022; 16(4):415–435.
  4. Kluczkovski A, et al. An Environmental and Nutritional Evaluation of School Food Menus in Bahia, Brazil That Contribute to Local Public Policy to Promote Sustainability. Nutrients, 2022;14(7).
  5. da Silva JT, et al. Greenhouse gas emissions, water footprint, and ecological footprint of food purchases according to their degree of processing in Brazilian metropolitan areas: a time-series study from 1987 to 2018. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2021; 5(11):e775-e785.