Barbara Bray MBE FIFST is a Registered Nutritionist and food safety consultant of African heritage.

Her work over the last 30 years focussed on delivering food safety in food supply chains and nutrition strategy for businesses, alongside leadership and educational roles in her public engagement activities.

She is currently researching diets to protect health of older adults at Queen’s University Belfast under the BBSRC funded Doctoral Research Programme to train PhD researchers in food systems.

In 2017, Barbara was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship to study international food and farming systems. 

Her TEDx talk ‘What Youth can teach us about positive ageing’ https://youtu.be/43j-Qj0Mi1g?si=GRXLTldy87-16COc looks at how we shape our food environment for the young and how we can adapt to better accommodate an ageing society.

She hosts the podcast ‘Women Positively Ageing’, the show for women in mid-life and older who want to live well for longer.

In 2019, Barbara was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for her 'Services to Food Nutrition’.