Lenore Newman is the Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley and leads projects on agricultural land use policy, precision fermentation, and controlled environment agriculture. Lenore mentors in the Creative Destruction Labs-Rockies agricultural stream and was a member of the British Columbia Premier’s Food Security Task Force, chairs the Canadian Council of Academies expert panel on Atypical Agriculture, and consults widely on the future of food. Lenore’s work has been highlighted in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and the Guardian. She is an emeritus member of the Royal Society of Canada's New College and is the author of Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food and is co-author of Dinner on Mars: The Technologies that will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth. Lenore holds a BSc in Physics from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD in Environmental Studies from York University.