Dr Richard Bruce

I have been a member of the Management School academic staff since January 2012 following a career that included a spell as a fast-track Civil Servant (Department of the Environment), an academic and technology transfer specialist at Harper Adams University, and 16 years as a Global Agri-food Supply Chains consultant. 

A key publication in Nature (Plants) in 2017 ‘Environmental impact of fertiliser’ led to two major commercial research contacts for a Belgian food company.

An article in ‘The Conversation’ in April 2021 about the collapse of Greensill Capital led to being invited to give evidence the Treasury Select Committee’s initial session on that case, and subsequent research involving ICAEW and a major global bank. 

As Co-Lead of the Resilient Net Zero Agri-Food Supply Chains cluster in the Institute for Sustainable Foods, with Julie Gray in Biosciences, I work with industry, professional and academic colleagues to try to find practical solutions for this very topical subject.