Vivica I. Kraak, PhD, MS, RDN is Associate Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She has 30 years of professional experience and research to promote resilient and sustainable diets and food systems that support a healthy people and planet. Vivica earned her PhD degree in population health from Deakin University in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (2014); MS degree in nutritional sciences from Case Western Reserve University and completed a dietetic internship at the University Hospitals of Cleveland in Ohio (1989); and earned a BS degree in nutritional sciences from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (1986). In 2017, she served as a Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Professor at Metropolitan University College in Copenhagen, Denmark. Vivica has co-authored more than 55 peer-reviewed publications addressing: (1) population approaches to prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs); (2) government and corporate accountability for healthy and diets and sustainable food systems; (3) public-private partnerships to address the Global Syndemic of undernutrition, obesity, NCDs and climate change; (4) policies to promote healthy and sustainable food and beverage products marketed to children and adolescents; and (5) translating research into policies for government, business and civil society sectors. Vivica is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Public Health Association, and the American Society for Nutrition.