A TABLE WHERE YOU’LL WANT TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION
Join us over dinner to explore how we can put Healthy Sustainable Diets at the centre of the food system transformation from a youth, farming, policy and business leaders’ perspective.
We are thrilled to announce our exceptional lineup of Next-Gen Leaders for the Business Leaders Forum & Dinner. Gain valuable insights and engage directly with our distinguished guests from Sainsbury’s and BiteBack. Get to know them before the event.
Nilani Sritharan
Group Head of Healthy & Sustainable Diets, Sainsbury’s
Nilani Sritharan is a qualified Nutritionist with 20 years’ experience of leading health strategies for the food industry, including a variety of senior roles in nutrition, regulatory and external affairs for Unilever, Nestle and then a Joint Venture, working in both a regional (Asia/Oceania, based in Sydney) and global capacity (based in Switzerland).
Since 2018, Nilani has led a team of nutritionists for Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second largest food retailer, with a particular focus on helping everyone to eat better whilst driving for food systems transformation. Nilani has driven a series of initiatives to adapt food environments, support product reformulations and use loyalty card data to help unlock opportunities to drive healthier sales. She also works in partnership with the academic community and other food system stakeholders to independently evaluate initiatives and as a member of the Food Data Transparency Partnership for Health to improve data transparency and reporting.
Chief Executive, Bite Back
James Toop is Chief Executive of Bite Back – a youth activist movement set up to challenge a food system that’s been set up to fool us all. He is passionate about transforming systems through people and leadership. Before moving into food systems, he worked in education reform as Chief Executive of Ambition Institute, growing a movement of school leaders transforming schools in low income areas. He was in the inaugural cohort of the Acumen-Rockefeller Food Systems Fellowship and is Board Chair at Education for the 21st Century, a Multi Academy Trust of 8 schools in South East London and Kent.
TASHA MHAKAYAKORA
Youth Leader, Founding Co-chair and Trustee, Bite Back
Tasha is a founding co-chair and trustee at Bite Back 2030, a youth activist movement challenging a food system that is rigged against all of us. She is passionate about creating a world where businesses prioritise health, governments and policymakers protect children and young people, and the public demands higher standards and better practices from the giant food companies that control the industry.