Distinguished Professor Paul Moughan

Professor Paul J Moughan holds the position of Distinguished Professor, Massey University, New Zealand and is Director of the Riddet Institute.  The Riddet Institute is one of New Zealand’s seven government funded Centres of Research Excellence (CoRE), the science of which underpins the development of innovative foods that promote health and wellness. The Riddet Institute, is a partnership between the University of Otago, Auckland University and Massey University and two New Zealand Crown Research Institutes, Plant and Food Research and AgResearch, and is dedicated to research and postgraduate education in the area of food science and human nutrition.  He was formerly foundation head of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health at Massey University, Director of the University’s Mongastric Research Centre and Foundation Scientific Director of the Fonterra-funded Milk and Health Research Centre. 

Professor Moughan was appointed to the foundation chair in monogastric biology at Massey University in 1993 and his research has encompassed the fields of human and animal nutrition, food chemistry, functional foods, mammalian growth biology and digestive physiology.  He has published in excess of 350 scientific works.  In 1995 he was awarded Doctor of Science and in 1997 was awarded a Personal Chair at Massey University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England.  In 2011 he was appointed Chair of the FAO Expert Consultation to review recommendations on the characterisation of dietary protein quality in humans.  He has received numerous prestigious international awards for his work, including the Prime Minister’s Science Prize in 2012.  Professor Moughan sits on a number of editorial boards for scientific journals and is an adviser to the international food industry. He is a non-executive Director of the Gardiner Foundation, Melbourne, Australia.