"…From everything that I'd learned and from everything that I'd seen, I came to realize that our food and how we produce it, particularly products of industrial animal agriculture links to almost every issue I'd worked on from biodiversity loss to climate change to food insecurity." – Thomas King

Thomas King is the founder and CEO of Food Frontier, a food innovation think tank dedicated to diversifying the world's food supply through the development of alternatives proteins.

For the last decade Thomas has driven food systems and environmental and poverty alleviation initiatives across five continents.

Thomas is 24 years old.

At 13, he launched an awareness campaign about deforestation caused by unsustainable palm oil production, which catapulted him right into the deep end of advocacy where he has lived ever since.

At 18, he was named Victoria's Young Australian of the year for his environmental and humanitarian work.