Patrick Webb works on food policy as well as humanitarian interventions. His current research focuses on climate change interactions with health and nutrition. He holds a PhD in Geography and has been Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 1982. He has 220+ peer-reviewed articles. Patrick sits on the High-Level Panel of Experts of the Committee on World Food Security.

He is also Commissioner on the Eat-Lancet 2.0 Commission. Earlier, he was a member of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research, worked as Chief of Nutrition for both World Food Programme and USAID, and was a Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.