Hal Hamilton founded and is now a senior advisor to the Sustainable Food Lab. He has supported sustainability strategy for many food businesses, helps design and manage collaboration sustainable agriculture initiatives, and supports leadership development for younger professionals.

Hal’s career began as a commercial dairy farmer in Kentucky. He has been guest faculty at the MIT Sloane School of Management and other business schools. Hal has been an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative and gave the annual George McGovern address to the FAO at World Food Day. He has been a German Marshall Fellow, a Kellogg Fellow, and received a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award. Hal’s education was at Stanford University and the State University of New York, Buffalo. He has written numerous columns and journal articles and three chapters in books on agricultural policy and change.

• Location: Washington, USA