Patrick Webb

Patrick Webb (born 10 March 1959) is the Alexander McFarlane Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. He was Dean for Academic Affairs from 2005 to 2014. Biography Patrick Webb holds an endowed chair at the Friedman School, the only self-governing graduate school of nutrition in the United States. He also holds appointments at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Kathmandu, Nepal, and at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. He has served since 2014 as Technical Adviser to the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition. Webb was previously Chief of Nutrition for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) from 2003 to 2005, and a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute from 1989 through 1994. A British citizen, Patrick Webb holds an undergraduate degree in geography from Sussex University, a master's degree from the Centre for West Africa Studies at the University of Birmingham, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in geography from the University of Birmingham. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1984. He attended The Blue School, Wells in Somerset from 1971 to 1979. Webb is considered to be one of the world's most influential voices in the fields of food policy, climate change, and nutrition, including as these relate to the domain of humanitarian intervention. He is also a widely known authority on food security, agriculture and nutrition policies, and food assistance. He led the United States Agency for International Development's review of food aid quality from 2009 to 2021, served on the United Nations' Hunger Task Force from 2003 through 2005, was Director for the USAID-supported Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Lab, 2010–2020, and is currently directing the Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab (2021-2026).