MEET THE EXPERTS

HEALTH - Dr. T. Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell PhotoFor more than forty years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Project, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted.  Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has more than seventy grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers and coauthor of the bestselling the book, The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health.

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HEALTH - Dr. Caldwell B Esselstyn

Essy002.jpgDr.  Caldwell Esselstyn was trained as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and at St. George’s Hospital in London.  In 1968, he was awarded the Bronze Star for his work as an Army surgeon in Vietnam.   Since then he has served as a President of the Staff and member of the Board of Governers for the Cleveland Clinic, he has chaired the Clinic’s Breast Cancer Task force and has served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. In 1995 he published his nutritional research on arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients, which is one of the longest longitudinal studies of its type.

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ENVIRONMENT - Dr. Gidon Eshel

gidon-portraitDr. Eshel served as an Assistant Professor of Geophysics at the University of Chicago and as a member of the scientific staff at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Dr. Eshel is a recipient of the NOAA/UCAR Global and Climate Change Fellowship and research grants from the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Eshel’s technical work focuses on mechanisms of climate variability in the Earth’s subtropics, climate predictability, statistical climatology, and simple numerical modeling of geophysical fluids.  With colleague Pam Martin of the University of Chicago, he authored Diet, Energy and Global Warming, which is on the list of the American Geophysical Union’s most downloaded papers.

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ETHICS - Professor Peter Singer

peter-singer-portrairPeter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne.  He specialises in applied ethics, approaching ethical issues from a secular preference utilitarian perspective.  He has written many books and articles on the subjects of animal rights, abortion, euthanasia, and world poverty.

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TASTE - Chad Sarno

chad-saf-london-kitchen2Chad Sarno is one of the world’s most innovative chefs.  A  favourite for many Hollywood stars, Chad has been an executive chef and consultant to over 10 restaurants in the US, Europe and Asia.  Saf restaurant in London, is Chad’s latest restaurant concept.