Philip Thornton

University of Edinbugh and Clim-EAT

Philip Thornton has nearly forty years of experience as a researcher and research leader in agricultural development. Based in Edinburgh, he previously led work on policy, priority setting and climate adaptation for 12 years with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). He is an Honorary Professor in the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, a Visiting Professor in the Cornell Atkinson Centre for Sustainability, Cornell University, and an Emeritus Fellow at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya. He is also affiliated with Clim-Eat (clim-eat.org/), a Dutch-based think tank working to accelerate climate action in food systems and a member of the Board of Trustees of GALVmed, a public-private partnership committed to increasing small-scale producers’ access to animal health products in lower-income countries.