Associate Profesor Dr. Elise Mognard holds a PhD in sociology from Université de Toulouse, CERTOP-CNRS (Toulouse, France) and is currently an Associate Professor at Taylor’s University and Programme Director for Postgraduate Programmes in Food Studies. She has 15 years of experience in education. Her research expertise and research interests lie in the study of the modernization of food habits and systems, and their implications in terms of cosmopolitanism, health, and sustainability.