Singapore
Professor William Chen received his university education (from BSc to DSc) from Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He attended the Food System Leadership Institute in the US. Prof. Chen has joined Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) since 2002 and is now the Michael Fam Endowed Chair Professor and Director of Food Science & Technology Programme. He is also Director of Singapore Agrifood Innovation Lab (SAIL@NTU), Co-Director of NTU Future Ready Food Safety Hub (FRESH@NTU), and Director of F&N-NTU Joint Innovation Lab. Prof. Chen’s food tech innovations and opinions on food security have been featured in Nature and The World Economic Forum, and extensively covered by local and international media. The ‘Going Green’ programme by CNN in 2019 described Professor Chen as a Game-Changing Leader in the green revolution of the food system. Professor Chen is advisor/consultant to government agencies, The World Health Organization, The Asian Development Bank, The Good Food Institute APAC, food industry, and overseas universities on matters related to food technology and food security.
New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and Next Generation Food Safety Risk Assessment
Integrated platform: Education-Research-Innovation-Society
Public Private Partnership on Innovations across Agri-food Value Chain
Urban food systems, precision fermentation, foresight food safety of novel foods, and food security
New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for new generation of food safety risk assessment; risk-benefit analysis of alternative foods
Future prospects of food security