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Quinalt Childs, IFTF Food Futures Lab Research ManagerQuinault Childs

Research Director, Food Futures Lab

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Quinault is a research director in the Food Futures Lab at IFTF. With IFTF, he has worked with large food industry companies around the world to reveal the directions of future change that will influence the way we produce, process, distribute, and enjoy food. In addition to contributing research to food company projects, he has spoken on the future of food at conferences and public events in the U.S., Australia, and Italy.

His research focuses on sustainability in the global food system, from city-level resiliency to systems-level impacts of environmental change, to tracking innovation in outlier areas like tech-driven storytelling, virtual reality, and sensor networks.

Prior to IFTF, Quinault came from a background in food and agriculture entrepreneurship, which included co-founding a company that uses insects to upcycle food waste into animal feed.

Quinault holds an M.Sc. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and a B.S. in Human Factors Engineering – both from Tufts University in Boston, MA.

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