Lenore Newman is a co-founder of Bandit Foods Consulting and the Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley where she holds a full professorship and chair in Food and Agriculture Innovation. Dr. Newman is a past Canada Research Chair, Chairs the Council of Canadian Academy’s Atypical Agriculture Committee, and is an emeritus member of the Royal Society of Canada’s New College. She mentors in Creative Destruction Labs-Rockies agricultural stream and was a member of the BC Premier’s Food Security Task Force, sat on the BC Minister of Agriculture’s Advisory Committee, and is a member of the X-Prize Brain Trust. She works as a consulting fruit hunter and has been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and CNN. She co-leads the SF4C National Agrifood Initiative with Dr. Evan Fraser of Guelph.  Her award-winning books include Speaking in Cod Tongues, Lost Feast, and she is co-author of Dinner on Mars. She holds a BSc in Physics from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD in Environmental Studies from Toronto’s York University.