Shaping a Good Food For All Future with the Chefs’ Manifesto

Paul is a strategic innovator and executive leader with over twenty five years of expertise managing complex stakeholder relationships, designing campaign strategies, and extensive knowledge of the not-for-profit sector. He possesses strong business acumen, exceptional advocacy skills, and the ability to build deeply engaging relationships to influence decision makers, improve practices, drive change, and deliver impactful solutions to complex problems alongside communities around the world. A skilled communicator with a narrative that entices people to get on board, Paul starts movements that make global impact and drives change in sustainability and food systems, delivered through consistent and competitive methodologies, strong network development, innovative communications and superior client service and executive presence. Through the podcast ‘Future Fork’, Paul digs deep into the world of food and the decisions we can make today to create a brighter future for all with innovative thinkers in the food space. Paul Newnham founded the SDG2 Advocacy Hub in 2016, a secretariat convened to connect NGOs, advocacy groups, civil society, private sector, and United Nations agencies around Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger. The Hub’s goal is to coordinate global campaigning and advocacy to achieve food systems transformation, and it does so by facilitating multiple projects.

Jon Lawson began training as a chef in 2006 and eventually found himself working in the kitchen of Theo Randall, where he embraced a philosophy of simple Italian cooking with fine seasonal produce. In late 2016, having spent a year doing super clubs and a number of stages, he opened Popolo restaurant in Shoreditch, focused on serving informal sharing plates and natural wines.