Lenore Newman
Director, Food and Agriculture Institute, UFV
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV)
Lenore holds a research chair in food and agriculture innovation and is a past Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment. She mentors in Creative Destruction Labs-Rockies agricultural stream and works closely with industry in the areas of alternative proteins and controlled environment agriculture. Lenore was a member of the BC Premier’s Food Security Task Force, sat on the BC Minister of Agriculture’s Advisory Committee, and consults widely on the future of food.