Katie Palmer

Food Sense Wales

The value and challenges of local sourcing

Katie Palmer is founder and Head of Food Sense Wales.  Katie has an MSc in Nutrition from Kings College London and in Food Policy from City University. She has worked in the world of food her entire career with experience in both the private sector, and third and public sector (including on the Food Standards Agency’s Welsh Food Advisory Committee and Welsh Government’s Food and Drink Industry Board).

Katie is a founding member of the Veg Power Board as well as being one of the founding members of Food Policy Alliance Cymru.   She also sits on the WLGA’s School Holiday Enrichment Programme Advisory Group and was one of the team of four who created the multi award winning Food and Fun programme in Cardiff in 2015. Through a focus on local Food Partnerships and Horticulture, Katie’s passion lies in unlocking the potential of local food systems to inspire positive change.

Most recently Katie has been elected as a member of the Conscious Food Systems Inner Council supporting a movement of food, agriculture, and consciousness practitioners, convened by UNDP, and united around a common goal: to support people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration.