Prof.Maggie Gill
Professor Maggie Gill has had a 40-year career in the agri-food sector, split almost evenly between conducting research, managing research programme funding and advising research funders, in the UK , New Zealand, European Commission and, for international development, the World Bank and numerous national international development departments.
Her original interests were in livestock nutrition (mainly grass-fed sheep and cattle) but over time those broadened to interests on interactions between agriculture more generally, with the environment and again food systems and in the last two decades to the interface between science and policy.
She was the first Chief Scientific Adviser on Rural Affairs and the Environment in the Scottish Government and currently chairs both the Scottish Science Advisory Council and BBSRC’s Sustainable Agriculture and Food Strategy Panel. She was instrumental in creating the Zoonoses from Emerging Livestock Systems research programme (ZELS Programme Impact Report – UKRI) whilst a Senior Research Fellow at DFID, was a member of the Data, Evidence and Science Working Group of the RSE post-Covid-19 Futures Commission (Home – RSE Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission :RSE Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission (rsecovidcommission.org.uk) and a member of the Science legacy of Covid Working Group Working Group of the SSAC (SSAC Report – Building on the Science Legacy of Covid-19 in Scotland.pdf (scottishscience.org.uk)
She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen, currently living in rural Aberdeenshire.