Margot Logman

02/24/23 • 23 min

Margot Logman is a specialist in nutrition and food supply chains and an expert facilitator, supporting strategic collaboration between companies and governments that influence how we source food more sustainably. Margot has worked with some of the world’s leading food companies such as Unilever, Nestle and Friesland Campina where she has provided strategic support on a range of topics including CSR, nutrition strategy and communications.

As the Secretary General of the European Palm Oil Alliance (or EPOA) between 2016-2022, she worked on market transformation across the complex palm oil supply chain, together with members Sime Darby, Wilmar, Cargill and more. She has also engaged many international partners, including the Malaysian Palm Oil Council and GAPKI (the Indonesian palm oil association).

Both personally and professionally, she likes to create meaningful impact through sustainability and public health improvement strategies. Through public private cooperation between businesses, governments and non-governmental organisations she facilitates and implements time bound strategies, appealing communication campaigns and interventions based on expert knowledge. By building trusted relationships, she has been able to build and activate meaningful cooperation with a range of global stakeholders.
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Juliane Caillouette Noble

In this episode, we speak with Juliane Caillouette Noble who is an educator and problem solver with a keen interest in how we learn, how we eat and how to make a difference in the systems that influence both. Emily and Juliane discuss the development of Juliane’s career, as well as both the challenges and opportunities currently facing women working in sustainable hospitality and food sourcing.

Juliane is currently the Managing Director of the Sustainable Restaurant Association, where she is focused on growing the impact of the SRA around the world through the Food Made Good Sustainability Standard. She is an American Studies major at Stanford, where she concentrated her coursework on kids, classrooms and culture, exploring childhood development, the creation of education systems and policies that influence learning.

Throughout her career, Juliane has created content for an educational start-up, structured a food education curriculum for primary schools, designed a live lesson for over 250,000 children across the globe and managed a rapidly growing network of primary schools across the UK. She also ran Jamie Oliver’s programmes for improving school food and food education across the UK for five years.

She is deeply engaged in global food policy issues ranging from sustainable farming, urban growing, food education and school food systems. Juliane has designed food education tools and resources for teachers, has developed local and global campaigns, and served as a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for School Food in the UK.

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Dr. Ines Smyth

In this episode, Emily speaks with Dr. Ines Smyth who has an MSc and PhD in Social Anthropology. With 10 years of experience working as a University Lecturer and Researcher, she has an extensive publication list, and has also been the Senior Gender Advisor in Oxfam Great Britain, and the Senior Gender Expert at the Asian Development Bank. She is now a Gender and Women Rights consultant with over 30 years of professional experience in the fields of gender equality, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and gender mainstreaming, around the world, especially in East Asia.

In particular, Dr Smyth has over 10 years of practical experience in Myanmar, working on the full gamut of issues and methodologies pertaining to gender equality and social inclusion in the context of a country prone to ecological and other crises.

Since engaging in consultancy work, she has engaged in the identification, design and formulation of standalone women’s rights programs and gender mainstreaming strategies in development and humanitarian settings. She has also used intersectional research for the purpose of influencing governments and other development actors on issues of women’s access to natural and other resources, food security, livelihood and governance. She has prioritised collaboration with individuals and civil society organisations, including Women's Rights Organisations, in developing and delivering innovative capacity-enhancing curricula on gender and women's transformative feminist leadership, gender mainstreaming in humanitarian settings, gender and Disaster Risk Reduction, safeguarding and GBV, gender and localisation, feminist MEAL, and engaging men.

To her private and professional life she has brought a commitment to gender and social justice, which translates into feminist activism as well as, in the last 4 years, in active engagement with Extinction Rebellion, for a transition to a just and fossil fuel free society.

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