Jian Yi (简艺/簡藝) joins FLPC as Senior Fellow, U.S. – China Food Systems 

JIAN Yi, an independent filmmaker and food activist, joined the Food Law and Policy Clinic as Senior Fellow, U.S. – China Food Systems, in July 2024. He was a visiting fellow at the Animal Law and Policy Program at the Harvard Law School (2022-24), a Gleitsman Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Center for Public Leadership (2021), a Yale World Fellow (2009), an India-China Fellow (2008), an Asia 21 Young Leader (2010), an Asian Cultural Council grantee (2008), and a Cambridge University visiting fellow (2007). He co-presided the Harvard Behavior Insights Student Group (BISG) between 2022 and 2023. Jian is a member of the Advisory Board for the EAT Foundation. 

Jian is the founder and president of Good Food Fund, a leading initiative in China’s food systems transformation, whose Mama’s Kitchen project was named one of the ten global Top Visionaries by the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2050 Food Systems Prize. In 2021, Jian served on the Core Leadership Team of Action Track 2 of the United Nations Food Systems Summit and led its Work-stream on Food Environments. He appeared on the documentary film, Eating Animals, produced by Natalie Portman, and on the documentary Food 2050, produced by the Rockefeller Foundation. 

Since 2007, Jian’s films have won awards in international film festivals and have been shown across the globe, including at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In 2008, he co-founded IFChina, a civic-engagement organization focusing on documenting social memories, and lived in a Buddhist monastery for two full years between 2012 and 2014. Jian holds three Master’s degrees respectively from the Harvard Kennedy School, the Communication University of China and the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2015. 

As a senior fellow on U.S.-China Food Systems, Jian will lead a exciting new work stream aiming at strengthening collaboration on promoting healthy, sustainable and equitable food systems between the U.S. and China, which includes exchanges between Harvard and Peking University, two of the nations’ top research and higher learning institutions.  

Jian’s Wikipedia page: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Yi

Jian’s Linked-in Page: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/artisimple