Head of Program

Alon is a food system expert and an environmental scientist with research interests in food, ecology, and sustainability. His research efforts are devoted to understanding the links between nutrition and the environment and advancing quantitative research to inform policy towards sustainable food systems. He completed his PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science and pursued a postdoc fellowship at the T. H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard. He is currently a PI at the New School of the Environment. Apart from his academic roles, he is the chair of the Israeli Forum for Sustainable Nutrition.