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Morgaine Gaye

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Dr Morgaine Gaye is a Food Futurologist, who forecasts trends and enables companies to develop what we will all be eating in the coming years.

Summary:

Trend forecaster, academic, product developer, writer and broadcaster, Morgaine lives and breathes ideas and future trends. She asks the question 'why' so that she can deliver the 'what'. Identifying why people aspire to new things, she discovers what will be desirable and aspirational in the future. She endeavors to make food fun, informative and a social commentary on culture, class, behaviours and belief. She is the founder and director of Bellwether: Food Trends, a fashion/design/food/social trend (digital and print) compendium for global markets.

Biography:

Dr Morgaine Gaye is a Food Futurologist and director of bellwether: Food Trends, the first food trend research compendium. She has her own health-food product range of functional food blends called Dr Gaye, which are sold globally on-line.

Morgaine looks at food and eating from a social, cultural, economic, trend, branding and geo-political perspective. Her work involves running ideation sessions, consulting to food companies, developing new products and ideas; writing articles/ trend reports for PR and ad agencies; giving public , university and corporate lectures on specific food trends, developing new ideas for food-related TV and radio programmes and doing research on all elements of the eating experience from mouth-feel to olfactory perception. She consults to leading blue chip food companies and manufacturers, delivering bespoke trend briefings and NPD ideation.

Morgaine is a frequent media contributor in print, radio and TV. A number of her academic food research papers have been published. She is a guest lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK, UCL, UK and Lund University, Sweden. Morgaine is on the reviewing panel for the International Food Design Conference and yearly academic journal. As part of the EU Commission, Morgaine is the chair at the Brussels Parliament for 2015.

Fee range:

Up to 5,000 GBP

Testimonials:

An insightful, charismatic and credible food futurologist who is able to move perspectives of her audiences via strong facts, reasoning and engaging style- that’s the sentence I would use to describe Dr. Morgaine as a speaker and professional. As a person she carries a creative spark that makes her a truly interesting and inspiring character. Having hired Dr. Morgaine for an ideation day to craft our strategic plan for the coming 3 years, she added tremendous value to the day via her key note address on the future of our category, active participation in the crafting of ideas and also judging of the final ideas presented.

Emanuel Gavert, Global Innovation Manager, Mondelēz International

Dr Morgaine Gaye is a brilliant communicator, she is knowledgeable, warm and able to deliver her subject in an interesting way that makes the room fizz with the energy you get when an audience is receiving the right information from the right speaker. She has the knowledge and experience to deliver a wonderful experience for the audience every time and we are very pleased to be able to work with her.

Helen Bagnall, Cultural Curator and Co-Founder Salon London and Salon North