Bruce Friedrich is the founder and president of the Good Food Institute (GFI), a global network of six science-focused nonprofits dedicated to transforming the way the world produces meat. Since its inception in 2016, GFI has grown from an idea into an global science think tank with more than 230 full-time team members, the plurality scientists. GFI affiliates operate in India, Israel, Brazil, the Asia–Pacific (Singapore, Japan, and Korea), and Europe (Brussels, London, and Berlin). A recognized leader in food innovation, Bruce is a TED fellow, an EatingWell “American Food Hero” (2021), and a Y Combinator alum. He is a sought-after speaker on food technology, with opinion pieces published in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Nature Food, and more. His TED Talk has been viewed over 2.4 million times and translated into 30 languages. Bruce has appeared on The Ezra Klein Show, TED Radio Hour, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast, among others. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown Law and also holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics, and Grinnell College.