Wilfried Bommert

Dr Wilfried Bommert is founder of the Institut für Welternährung (World Food Institute), founded in 2011 in Berlin. Born in 1950, he was raised on a farm in Rhineland, Germany. He studied agriculture and economics in Bonn from where he graduated in 1975. From 1975 to 1987, he worked as a scientist at the Gesellschaft für Agrarpolitik und Agrarsolziologie in Bonn, going on to become a Doktor Agrar (doctor of agriculture). Dr Bommert has also worked as a journalist and editor for German Broadcasting's Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), where he established the first department for the environment and worked as editor-in-chief of its broadcasting service. He is an expert in subjects including world climate, world nutrition, world population and world food security and has reported from all the major UN conferences for the German broadcasting network. In 2008, he published a book called No bread for the world: the future of food security (Kein Brot für die Welt, die Zukunft der Welternährung).