Prof. Bent Egberg Mikkelsen

Bent Egberg Mikkelsen is a Professor in the section of Landscape and Architecture in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen and part of the Urban Food and Farming Strategy. He holds an M.Sc. in Food Science from the Royal Agricultural University, Copenhagen, and a Ph.D. in Social Science from Roskilde University. He is the author of a large number of publications on public health nutrition and sustainable public food systems. Bent has acted as the principal investigator on several research projects, and his work includes several assignments on nutrition at schools and hospitals for the Council of Europe; food and nutrition at work for the Nordic Council of Ministers; and healthy eating at school for the European WHO regional office and the EU platform for Health, Diet, and Physical activity. He is a past president of the EU expert committee for the school fruit scheme (SFS).