Mark Wahlqvist has
most recently been the Foundation director of the Fuli Institute and Professor
in Food and Nutrition Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and a
Visiting Professor, National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan. He is
Emeritus Professor and Head of Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia.in Australia. He has played a major role in nutrition education,
science, practice and policy for almost five decades. Mark was the president of
the International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS). He was on the World Health
Organization’s Nutrition Advisory Panel for many years. Among others, his
scientific advisory roles have been to Harvest Plus at IFPRI and the Riddet
Institute in New Zealand. He is now Emeritus Editor but was Foundation
Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition from
1992-2016 He has been honored by the Nutrition Societies of Australia,
Indonesia, China, the USA, Britain and the Asia-Pacific, and by the Emigrants
Research Institute in Sweden. In 2017 he was made a Living Legend of the IUNS.