Dr Morgaine Gaye
Food Futurologist
Dr Morgaine Gaye is a Food Futurologist and creator 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. She is the author of Fashion to Fork – Why We Eat What We Eat.
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.
She is a popular corporate speaker and guest university lecturer in UK and Sweden and is on the reviewing panel for the International Food Design Conference and yearly academic journal.
Morgaine has appeared on numerous national and international media platforms from BBC News and Al Jazeera to Saturday Kitchen and Netflix. She was a co-presenter on the Ch4 series Home of the Future. She has been interviewed on countless podcasts and have spoken on radio shows including BBC Radio 4, The Food Programme to NPR.
Her opinions on food scares, what to watch – next trends and cultural shifts, current commentary, are often called upon to add depth and insight.