Team Member: Jenny Walton

Jenny is a registered nutritionist with over 25 years’ experience working on food system transformation from the food industry and latterly food research organizations. She is currently based at the International Food Policy Research Institute (CGIAR), based with the HarvestPlus global team in Washington DC. Jenny’s role at HarvestPlus is to develop and lead the strategy that will embed biofortified seeds, foods, and grains into the food system through innovative technologies.

Working with the public and private sector, her objective is to find the incentives to commercialise biofortification and work in partnerships to overcome barriers to scale. Jenny leads the strategy and workflows on utilising technology and digitisation of biofortified foods systems as part of the CGIAR Digital Innovation initiative.

From small, medium, and large food businesses and well-known brands such as the Co-op, Danone, United Biscuits and Kellogg’s. She has worked globally in various nutrition related roles including food policy, nutrition science, nutrition communications and marketing, specialising in food regulations and promotions to the consumer. Jenny has over 20 peer reviewed publications in nutrition and biofortification including the 3 global Publicly Available Specifications which set the standards for nutrient enriched crops.