Marion Nestle

Professor/Writer/Blogger

Marion is Paulette Goddard Professor, of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she officially retired in September 2017. She is also a Professor in the Sociology Department at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Her research examines scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice, obesity, and food safety with emphasis on the role of food marketing.

She is also an author of six prize-winning books, the most recent being “Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat.”

She blogs daily at foodpolitics.com and has an active Twitter account. Her Twitter account is considered to be one of the top ten in health and science by Time Magazine, Science Magazine and the Guardian.