Speakers

Brian Lindsay

Director DSF/Global Sector Lead Sustainability GDP

Brian is a UK-based global sustainability consultant who has spent his career connecting the worlds of farming, food businesses and science to help build more sustainable food systems.

Working with clients ranging from farmer groups and dairy organizations to multinational food companies, Brian operates at both farm and boardroom level, helping organizations turn sustainability ambitions into practical, measurable strategies.

He is Director of the Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF), an initiative covering more than 30% of global milk production. His role is to support members around the world in developing locally relevant sustainability programs while strengthening the metrics and reporting needed to demonstrate real progress.

Brian is also Global Sector Lead for Sustainability for the Global Dairy Platform, where he works at the intersection of the dairy industry, science, industry and international policy, contributing to global discussions through organizations including the UNFCCC, UNEP and FAO.

His work has included international initiatives on methane, carbon sequestration, dairy carbon foot printing and life-cycle assessment, as well as (currently) pioneering, for GDP, approaches to livestock carbon markets in India and Kenya. He has also contributed to FAO publications on climate commitments and agricultural resilience.

With this background, Brian also serves on the boards of Dairy Asia and the Executive Committee of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he is company secretary and treasurer.

Yet despite his global reach, Brian remains firmly connected to farming. In his spare time, he is a small-scale livestock producer in Gloucestershire, rearing specialist meat lambs and selling them directly to consumers.

It is perhaps this combination that best defines him: a global sustainability specialist who still gets his boots muddy and still has much to learn! His career has been built on bringing science, business and farming together—and finding practical solutions that work not just on paper, but in the real world.