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Navin Durbhakula

Council of Student Sustainability Leaders

College

Navin Durbhakula is a senior at Harvard College with a special concentration in Sustainable Food and Health Systems. He is the CEO of Food 4 Thought Innovations, an international 501c3 building a Next Generation Food System through workforce development, philanthropic funding and strategic consulting partnerships. He is Harvard’s Annual Ray Goldberg Fellow in Global Food Systems and works with the Planetary Health Lab, conducting research on the dietary potential of seaweed to address malnutrition in undernourished populations. He currently serves on Harvard’s Presidential Committee for Sustainability, was a Food Literacy Project Fellow, and led the “Food Emissions Reduction Project” for CSSL. He is also the Co-President of Harvard Undergraduate Plant Based, an organization focused on building a community for plant-based and plant-forward students at Harvard. He is also an avid public speaker and has amassed over half a million views on his speaking engagements around the world.