Founding Chair and Executive Director, NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health

Professor Sumantra (Shumone) Ray is a Medical Doctor and Registered Public Health Nutritionist, with interests in nutrition, cardiovascular disease and medical education. Since 2008 he has been Founding Chair and Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health.

Shumone is cross-appointed in Cambridge as a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College, recently a Course Director in Nutrition Science at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education (2017-18 and 2018-19) and Co-Lead for the Food, Nutrition and Education Work Package for the TIGR2ESS Programme in India (2017-21) led by the University of Cambridge and supported by UK Research and Innovation's Global Challenges Research Fund. Additionally, Shumone holds a fractional personal chair appointment as Professor of Global Nutrition, Health and Disease at Ulster University as well as several honorary/visiting professorial appointments more widely including Imperial College London in the UK.