Professor Charles Godfray

Biography

Charles Godfray is Hope Professor in the Zoology Department and Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford. He is a population biologist with research interests including ecology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology. He served as chair of the Lead Expert Group of the Foresight Project on the Future of Food and has been President of the British Ecological Society.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Previous roles in government

  • Chair, Science Advisory Council