Speaker Biography

Dr Joanne Taylor

Training & Research Director TSI

Dr Joanne Taylor (BSc Psychology, PgCert HACCP, PhD) is a specialist in food safety management and food safety culture. She is currently a Director at Taylor Shannon International (TSI), working on the development and implementation of government food safety and quality programs in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Dr Taylor has authored a large number of peer-reviewed journal articles, textbooks and training materials on food safety, HACCP, behaviour change and culture, and was one of the lead developers of SFBB and Menu-Safe, two of the most widely implemented and researched Food Safety Management systems for food service businesses. She has trained over 500 industry professionals in more than 30 countries in advanced food safety management courses (Level 5 and MSc). In 2014 she was invited to present her experiences at the Codex Colloquium on HACCP, held in Finland. Her most recent work includes the development of a unique model and methodology to measure food safety and quality culture in industry, which was launched in 2014 in collaboration with Campden BRI, and was adopted as a voluntary module by BRC Global Standards in 2015.