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.