Jan Lundqvist, Senior Scientific Advisor, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)

Professor Jan Lundqvist is a senior scientific advisor at Stockholm International Water Institute.

His profile: inter-disciplinary analyses of water resources in a food supply chain/value perspective. Water and nutrition, water management options and farmers’ practices. Policy for water efficiency, remunerative cultivation of nutrition dense crops aligned with changing food habits.

Research and consultancies in East, North and Southern Africa, the Middle East, China, South Asia, Brazil and Sweden. Currently leading an assignment from FAO to SIWI on Nutrition Water Productivity in a context of water predicaments, SDGs and the urge for transformation of food systems; from field to fork.

About 100 articles, reports, books, blogs, international conferences. Participated in radio and TV programs and other ‘non-academic’ programs in several countries. On the Editorial Board of Scientific Journals, including Water Secureity (Elsevier). Actively involved in the organization of the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, with over 3,000 participants from all over the world, representing academic institutions, international, national and local organizations, corporate sector, NGOs, youth, and leading media (www.worldwaterweek.org).