Biography
Sahil Shah is a co-founder and director of Sustainable Seaweed, an agri-tech company scaling seaweed production for food security and blue carbon sinks. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the Jahn Research Group at the University of Madison-Wisconsin and a specialist advisor at US food security nonprofit, the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). He sits on the Chatham House Food and Land Use round table, and has been a Fellow and Action Council Member at the Atlantic Council. He cofounded an open-source project, the Food Systems Handbook, collating, curating and summarizing highly effective food security interventions for policy makers, and is a co-author of The Narrative Campaign Field Guide. Sahil previously advised the think tank Let’s Fund, co-founded the technology startup Sujester, and served as a strategy and management consultant with Accenture and Legal & General Investment Management. Sahil holds an MA in Economics with Management from the University of Cambridge and Judge Business School.
Publications
The Food Systems Handbook is an open-source, independent, and community-run project. It arose to collate, analyse, and categorise resources on the current global food crisis, providing an easy-to-use database to aid decision-makers across the policy, academic, humanitarian, and development sectors. They primarily collect case studies of best practice within food security interventions, focusing on the most pressing food security issues at any given time.
The Handbook’s network is global, and spans across dozens of NGOs (Mercycorp, Oxfam, Norwegian Refugee Council, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters, etc.), governments (DEFRA, USAID, etc.), the private sector (Bayer, Calysta, etc.), and multilaterals (the African Union, UNFAO, WFP, etc.).
