Barbara runs her own consultancy business driving and delivering food safety in food supply chains and advising agri-food businesses on food and nutrition strategy.
With a passion for educating people about food and nutrition, Barbara is a director of the Oxford Farming Conference, the leading international conference held in the UK for farming and agribusiness. She is a trustee with portfolio of International Affairs for The Nutrition Society in the UK and speaks at food and agriculture events.
Prior to consultancy Barbara worked in the Ugandan agri-business sector for three years after graduation and then spent fourteen years in the chilled foods sector in the UK and France. Her roles covered food procurement, technical innovation and implementation of food safety systems as a Technical Manager with Bakkavor, an international food manufacturer. She has a BSc (Hons) in Food Technology 1995, MSc Post Harvest Technology 1996, MSc Human Nutrition 2014 and is a registered nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition.
In 2017, Barbara was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship for her Nuffield Farming project on ‘Vegetable Production For Specific Nutritional Need’.
In 2019 she was awarded an MBE for services to food nutrition.