Professor Peter Lillford CBE

Peter Lillford was educated in Chemistry at King's College, London where he got his PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry, and Cornell University New York, USA where he did his post-doctoral research in Ultra-fast Reaction Kinetics. Professor Lillford worked at the Colworth Laboratory of Unilever research from 1971 to 2001. He retired from the post of Chief Scientist (Foods) in November 2001.

From 1993 until 1997 he was Chairman of the Food & Drink Panel of the Office of Science and Technology's Technology Foresight Programme. From 1998 until 2000 he was the Chairman of the BBSRC Agri-Food Committee and a member of the BBSRC Strategy Board.

Currently holds a visiting chair in Public Awareness of Science at the University of York, in the Centre for Novel Applications of Plants (CNAP). He is President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) and the International Symposium on the Properties of Water in Foods (ISOPOW).

He is currently:
Chairman of LINK Advanced Manufacturing for UK Government (DEFRA).
Chairman, National Centre for Non-Food Crops (UK).
Member Management Advisory Committee, Biochemical Engineering, UC London.
Member Strategic Advisory Team, EPSRC, Life Sciences Programme.

In 1991 he was awarded the Senior Medal by the Foods Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and in 1998 he was awarded a CBE for services to the Food Industry and Science in the Queen's Birthday Honours. He was also awarded a DEng (Hon) in recognition of services to Food Engineering, by Birmingham University.