Nafees Meah, Head of Science, Department of Energy and Climate Change

 

Dr Nafees Meah is Head of Science at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.  He was educated as a chemist at the Universities of Manchester, Toronto, London and Cambridge.  He joined the Chief Scientist’s Group at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1988.  There he managed research programmes on food safety, nutrition and environmental contamination of food.  

 

More recently, he was a senior policy maker in Defra working on the environmental impact of food production and on climate change and food security.  He was called to the English Bar in 2000 and is a member of Inner Temple.