Sumantra Ray

Sumantra Ray is a British licensed medical doctor and a registered nutritionist. He is the Founding Chair and executive director of the NNEdPro (The Need for Nutrition Education/Innovation Programme). He holds a fractional appointment as a full professor of Global Nutrition, Health and Disease at Ulster University.

He is also the co-founder and Chair of the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. Ray has published over 200 scientific papers. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research and the Elsevier Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare.

From 2008 to 2010, Ray was an NIHR Public Health Fellow and Corfield Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. From 2010 to 2018, he held a Senior Clinician Scientist position with the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom. From 2019 to 2021, he was the Director of Research in Food Security, Health and Society at the University of Cambridge.

Ray is a Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.