Dr. Evan Fraser is the director of Arrell Food Institute and a professor of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph. As a researcher, Dr. Fraser is a co-author on over 100 academic papers and book chapters about food systems, climate change and food security and has mentored close to 50 graduate students.

A passionate communicator, Dr. Fraser has written about food systems and food policy for the Globe and Mail, the Guardian.com, CNN.com, ForeignAffairs.com, the Walrus and the Ottawa Citizen. He has also co-authored three books about food and food security, and regularly works to support policy makers in Canada and internationally.

He has helped lead radio documentaries for CBC’s Ideas on the future of food and his web video series on “feeding nine billion” has been watched over 500,000 times.

He has self-published a graphic novel called #FoodCrisis and created a card game about global food security that won a gold medal at the International “Serious Play” conference. Today, the videos, the graphic novel and the card game are used in classrooms around the world.