Developing Careers in the Agri-Food Supply Chain

Aude Vuilliomenet

Vertical Future Ltd

Aude is an IoT engineer, urban analyst and food scientist. Having graduated from ETH Zurich and The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, her passion is for the natural world, human health, cities science, and electronics engineering. She aims to address environmental challenges through automated food production in urban areas working in the vertical farming industry. Aude is also behind the research project Gardens of Things, which looks at the integration of IoT devices into urban green spaces to encourage the interaction of citizens with their natural surroundings through digital platforms.

Prof Fiona Smith

Global Food and Environment Institute/ University of Leeds

Fiona Smith joined the School of Law at University of Leeds in 2017, her research focuses on international trade law in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and she has a specialist interest in international agricultural trade. In 2017, she was appointed Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords for its Report on ‘BREXIT and Agriculture’ and has given expert evidence to several House of Commons select committees on agrifood trade regulation and the impact of Covid-19 on agrifood supply chains; she also gave evidence on the legality of labelling foods to indicate food production standards (i.e. animal welfare) to the UK Trade and Agriculture Commission. She has worked with many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and most recently worked with the ‘Trade Unwrapped’ coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to publicise the importance of trade post-Brexit. In April this year, Fiona was appointed Special Adviser to the House of Commons International Trade Committee to support the Committee’s scrutiny of the UK’s post-Brexit trade agreements.

Fouzia Aboulfath

Yara International

Fouzia is a business professional working in AgFood international companies for the last 15 years. After a Master of science degree in Engineering form the University of Toronto, and some research projects in Canada, she joined a consulting company (KPMG), where she first worked in the Food and Consumer Good sector. She joined this industry, as IT Director and Strategic Project Lead at Campbellsoup, and then pursued her career in the upstream part of the Value chain within the Agrochemical Industry; first at Syngenta and now at Yara International. After directing operational departments, she then lead business development focusing on new technologies & innovation, shaping and framing new types of offering to create business value in adherence to the mission and know-how of this Industry.