Michael Lee

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Harper Adams University

Professor Michael Lee FRSA FRSB FRASE ARAgS is an expert in sustainable livestock systems, defining their role in securing global food security at the same time as protecting environmental health (Livestock’s role in human and planetary health).

He has published over 375 research articles and papers including articles in Nature and Science. He was awarded the Sir John Hammond Memorial Prize in 2015 for services to Animal Science and fellowships of the Royal Societies of the Arts and Biology in 2019 and 2023, respectively. He was also awarded Associateship of the Royal Agricultural Societies in 2023 and Fellowship of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 2024. He served on Presidents of the British Society of Animal Science from 2018-2022 and was a Trustee of the society for 12 years. In August 2019, he was elected President of the European Federation of Animal Science Livestock Farming Systems Commission. 

He represents the UK on Animal Task Force, a Public-Private think-tank informing the EU parliament in Brussels and is co-chair of the UK Universities Climate Network – Net Zero group. In 2023 he was selected to join a Technical Advisory Group of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prof Lee also sits on the BBC’s Rural Affairs Committee, the Agriculture Advisory Group convened by the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) and the Scientific Council of the World Farmers Organization (WFO).