
Professor Jeyakumar Henry is currently Deputy Executive Director of Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Centre, A*STAR in Singapore. He was the founding director of the Functional Food Centre in Oxford. Trained initially as a Food scientist, he obtained his MSc and PhD in Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was a Board member of UK Food Standards Agency and member of the general Advisory Committee on Science of the Food standard agency (UK). Prof. Henry is on the Board of Directors of International Life Science Institute South East Asia (ILSI-SEA). Prof. Henry published over 300 papers and presented over 380 lectures around the world. In 2010 he was awarded the British Nutrition Foundation prize for his outstanding contribution to Nutrition. He was made a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Scientists and Technologists (2012). Prof. Henry was recipient of the NutraIngredients-Asia NutraChampion Awards 2019, Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) -W.K. Kellogg International Food Security Award & Lectureship 2019, 100 Most Influential Asian Scientist– 2019 Edition, Asian Scientist Magazine and the prestigious Niigata International Food Award 2018 known as “Asian World Food Prize”. He was the scientific commentator on the highly successful TV program “Food Detective.