Ricardo Salvador

Director and Senior Scientist, Food and Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

As Director and Food Scientist at Union of Concerned Scientists Ricardo works to transition our current food system into one that grows healthy foods while employing sustainable and socially equitable practices.

Previously, at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation he worked to support a national array of programs in Good Food (healthy, green, fair and affordable), and at Iowa State University he chaired the first graduate program in sustainable agriculture in the United States. He is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainability in Food. In 2014, he was co-author of an influential Washington Post Op-Ed that called for the application of a coherent national policy for food, health and wellbeing. He is a recipient of the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award (2013), Iowa State University International Service Award (2001), and the CIBA-GEIGY Agricultural Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to Agriculture (1992).