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IFTF's Food Futures Lab Seeks Director
The global food system is reaching human and planetary limits. Chronic disease, rampant food waste, and environmental degradation are creating unprecedented constraints. However, over the next decade, entrepreneurs, farmers, chefs, and eaters will seize new opportunities to respond to these challenges.
Join with IFTF to catalyze change for the future of food.
IFTF's Food Futures Lab is seeking a Director to help lead research and foresight for food and food systems, develop a multi-year vision for the Lab's growth and impact, and drive new relationships with stakeholders across the global food system. You'll work with a dynamic, multidisciplinary group of researchers, artists, experts, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, farmers, technology innovators, and social innovators to together forecast the future of food. This is an extraordinary opportunity to join a highly collaborative and innovative practice in a leading futures research organization.
Watch a brief introduction to the Food Futures Lab and tell us why you want to join us!
How to Apply
View the job posting for more details. Applications must be received by 11:59 pm PST on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. We look forward to hearing from you!
About IFTF's Food Futures Lab
IFTF’s Food Futures Lab identifies and catalyzes the world-changing innovations that have the potential to reinvent our global food systems. We use a suite of methodologies to systematically envision future possibilities, and draw insights to drive action today. We align the minds, innovations, and resources shaping the future of food with a long-term perspective. The Food Futures Lab challenges assumptions and reveals new opportunities to make a resilient, equitable, and delicious future of food.