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.

Nilani is a member of FIO Food Work Package 3, which aims to implement retail strategies to promote healthy and sustainability purchasing in consumers & patients.