Evan D. G. Fraser is Director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph, co-chair on the Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council, a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on food systems science, and one of Canada’s most cited social scientists working on food and sustainability. Between 2010 and 2020 he held a Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and is the author of approximately 150 academic articles and chapters including co-editing three special features for scholarly journals. Beyond academic publications, Evan strives to communicate his research through accessible platforms including television, radio, social media, lesson plans and courses, educational games, op-eds, and popular science writing. He has co-authored 3 popular non-fiction books about food and food security, including Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations that was shortlisted for the James Beard Food Literature Award.