Elizabeth Creak Chair in Rural Policy and Strategy at Royal Agricultural University is Professor Tom MacMillan.
MacMillan’s role focuses on enabling strategic approaches land, farming and food systems in policy and research. He is academic lead for the RAU’s Innovation Village project.
In his first year in post, Tom played a leading role in the RSA and the Food, Farming & Countryside Commission’s Our Future in the Land report, setting out a blueprint for the country’s food, farming and countryside system as the UK prepares to leave the EU.
The Elizabeth Creak Charitable Trust also has also supported the Rural Innovation Centre, Farm491, and several Clyde Higgs postgraduate
scholarships in agriculture.
