Professor Webb, a British citizen, is a 19th century explorer at heart. He has a PhD in geography from the UK and is a Fellow of the renowned Royal Geographical Society. Patrick has lived and worked in some of the world’s most challenging environments, including the Sahara Desert in Niger, the Himalayas in Nepal and Tibet, and tropical forests of East Timor and Uganda. Today, he holds the renowned Alexander McFarlane Chair at Tufts’ Friedman School of Nutrition and has an appointment at the Fletcher School. He undertakes field research in a dozen countries of Africa and Asia, focusing on food policy and climate change interactions with health and nutrition. He has 200+ peer-reviewed journal articles. Patrick sits on the High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the inter-governmental Committee on World Food Security. He also serves as a Commissioner on the Eat-Lancet 2.0 Commission. Earlier, he was a member of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) and held the position of Chief of Nutrition for both the UN World Food Programme and, most recently, USAID. He has hosted Tufts Travel-Learn journeys to Antarctica, Japan and Chile.