Kathryn is Innovation Lead - Food and Nutrition at Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation. Kathryn leads on the Better Food for All programme which will fund a range of innovations across the food and nutrition space, and the GCRF AgriFood Africa programme running since 2019 which has funded projects and activities across agriculture and food with partners in Africa. Prior to joining Innovate UK, Kathryn was Head of Food Policy at Coeliac UK, the UK charity for people living gluten-free. Activities centred on legislation and the technical aspects of the gluten-free diet, stakeholder development in the food industry, food information service development and developing guidance and third-party certification schemes for the food industry. Kathryn has a BSc (Hons) in Nutritional Sciences and an MSc in Food Policy.