Robert Verkerk PhD
Rob Verkerk PhD is a multi-disciplinary sustainability scientist who, over the last four decades through his work in academia, non-profits, and as a consultant, has developed an intimate knowledge and relationship with the tightropes that span between science and law, between academia and industry, between corporations, governments and the people and, not least, between our species’ internal and external environments. He has Masters and Doctorate degrees from Imperial College London, where he pursued research on sustainable agroecosystems as a postdoctoral research fellow for 7 years.
Dr Verkerk’s deep knowledge and understanding of human dependence on natural systems, as well as the human propensity to exploit and destroy nature, triggered his mission to finding better ways of protecting, developing and promoting natural, sustainable and regenerative food production and human health management systems.
In 2002, Dr Verkerk founded the non-profit Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) that promotes and protects the right to nature-aligned, sustainable and regenerative approaches to human health, and he acts as the executive and scientific director of both the ANH-International and ANH-USA. Over the last two decades, Dr Verkerk has directed legal actions to protect access to natural health products, has campaigned on diverse issues including against toxins in the food supply, in drinking water and in the environment, as well as against genetically modified foods, gene editing and transhumanism. He is an internationally recognised pioneer in the development of novel, scientifically rational risk-benefit assessment approaches as well as an innovative, sustainable model for community-based health regeneration.
Dr Verkerk has authored some 60 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings and contributes regularly to magazines and other popular websites and media. He is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and Regional Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and acts as a scientific advisor to the UK integrative cancer charity, Yes To Life.