Professor Henry is currently Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Centre, A*STAR in Singapore. Concurrently, he is a Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Biochemistry at National University of Singapore. Prior to his arrival to Singapore in 2011, he was the founding director of the Functional Food Centre in Oxford. He initially trained as a Food scientist and subsequently obtained his MSc and PhD in Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In recent years, his interest has been in understanding glycemic control, the role of glycaemia in body weight regulation, food-nutrient interactions and functional foods. His work on energy expenditure culminated in the development of the “Henry equations” to predict Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). His equations on BMR are widely used in several countries including the European Union. He was a Board member of UK Food Standards Agency and member of the general Advisory Committee on Science of the Food standard agency (UK). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, Editorial Board Member of the Nutrition Today, and Scientific Director, ILSI-SEA, International Life Science Institute South East Asia.

Professor Henry has worked both in Europe and Asia with the academic, industrial, governmental and UN agency sectors. He has provided expertise on global nutrition, product development and food policy. Professor Henry’s work has received numerous awards including the British Nutrition Foundation prize for his outstanding contribution to Nutrition. In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology for his contribution to melding the sciences of Food and Nutrition. He is the pioneer Founding Director of United Kingdom first “Functional Food Centre in Oxford” and “Clinical Nutrition Research Centre in Singapore”, (the largest nutrition centre in Australasia). He has published over 220 papers and presented at over 350 international conferences. He is a regularly featured commentator on food and nutrition in both print and television media. He is also been the expert scientific commentator on the highly successful TV program ‘Food Files’ hosted by National Geographic channel.

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