Prof Elizabeth Magowan is the Director of Sustainable Agri-Food Sciences Division in the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland. Elizabeth completed a PhD in dairy nutrition from Queen’s University Belfast (with DARD Science Service and ARINI) in 2004 and joined AFBI as a pig research scientist in 2003, where she was responsible for developing the AFBI pig research programme until April 2017. Elizabeth’s main focus of research was on optimising pig production performance through management and nutritional strategies, while reducing environmental impact. Elizabeth then took up the post of Director of Sustainable Agri-Food Sciences Division in May 2017. Elizabeth has worked extensively on industry/academic studies and presented her work across the UK and at international conferences, as well as publications in journals. In 2017, she was awarded BSAS’s Sir John Hammond Award, in recognition of her scientific work in collaboration with industry. In 2022 Queens University Belfast awarded Elizabeth an Honorary Professorship in recognition of her scientific work, especially aligned with developing the AFBI/QUB strategic alliance. Some achievements during Elizabeth’s career include being the scientific Co-Ordinator of a large EU FP7 project ECO-FCE, being elected to the presidential team of BSAS; being a Director of UK Centre of Excellence for Livestock (CIEL) in its formative months and leading consortia formed of academics across the UK on two influential publications, funded by CIEL, aligned with Livestock and it’s net zero position.