Boyd Swinburn is Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and Honorary Professor, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Deakin University, Australia.

Boyd trained as an endocrinologist and has conducted research in metabolic, clinical and public health aspects of obesity. His major research interests centre on community and policy actions to prevent childhood and adolescent obesity, and reduce, what he has coined, ‘obesogenic’ environments. He leads the INFORMAS initiative (www.informas.org) to monitor and benchmark food environments in over 60 countries. He established WHO’s first Collaborating Centre on Obesity Prevention at Deakin University in 2003, led two Lancet Series on Obesity (2011, 2015), was co-chair of the International Obesity TaskForce (2009-2014), co-chair of World Obesity Policy & Prevention section (2014-2019), and co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Obesity (2015-2019). He has been an advisor on many government committees, WHO Consultations, and large scientific studies internationally.