Jess Halliday

Jess Halliday is Chief Executive of RUAF CIC and coordinator of the RUAF Global Partnership on Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Systems (www.ruaf.org). She is a specialist in urban food systems governance, and provides consultancy and thought leadership on topics including urban agriculture policy, resilience to multiple shocks and stresses, gender and inclusion, and food environments. Current and recent projects include: lead consultant on the FAO-RUAF City Region Food Systems programme; consultant to the Hivos-Botnar Foundation Urban Futures programme; associate of the CGIAR Resilient Cities programme; co-editor of Urban Agriculture Magazine. Jess has authored a number of peer-reviewed publications, and is a regular speaker at international conferences.

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Before joining RUAF in 2018, Jess co-authored a major report for the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) entitled ‘What makes urban food policy happen’. In 2015 she worked at Cirad on a project researching local government policy mechanisms and levers of urban food policies around the world.

Jess received her PhD in food policy from the Centre for Food Policy, City University London in 2015. Prior to this, she worked as a food and nutrition business journalist for over a decade.