Hal Hamilton

Hal Hamilton founded and co-directed the Sustainable Food Lab for fifteen years. He currently works as Senior Advisor at Food Lab, where he helps lead projects on water and crop diversification, as well as occasional supplier summits and strategic planning initiatives. He is also a co-founder and faculty of the Academy for Systemic Change. He has founded and directed several rural development and leadership organizations, and was the executive director of the Sustainability Institute.

Hal is a frequent guest faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management and other business schools, and has been an adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative. He has been a German Marshall Fellow, a Kellogg Fellow and received a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award. He has written numerous columns and journal articles and three chapters in books on agricultural policy and change.