Lindsay Graham

Dr Lindsay Graham OBE 
Award of Honorary Degree of Doctor of the University

Deputy Chair of the Poverty and Inequality Commission, Lindsay Graham OBE is a tireless champion of food security and children’s rights.

Named among Public Sector Catering’s Top 20 Most Influential for 2022, Lindsay is a passionate advocate of Glasgow Caledonian University’s Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU), which is working to combat deprivation.

She has helped our researchers build relationships with key decision-makers and policy developers in the fields of school food and public health. Lindsay was integral, for example, in ensuring SPIRU had a place at the table at the UK Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on School Food, and in developing the network that led to SPIRU co-hosting a US-Scotland seminar series on school food.

A co-founder of International School Meals Day, most recently, she has supported SPIRU’s role in the Global School Meals Coalition and developed a series of placement projects offering more than 100 Glasgow Caledonian students invaluable hands-on research work experience.

A Churchill Fellow and a former community nurse, Lindsay steers a host of organisations. She is Deputy Chair of the Poverty and Inequality Commission, a former Chair of the Holiday Hunger Task Force, and a member of the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland Committee.

Lindsay was awarded an OBE in 2022 in recognition of her work championing children’s rights and tackling food insecurity