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Steven Lord

Profile

Steven trained in the field of noncommutative geometry in pure mathematics before branching into applied mathematical and statistical methods useful in complex decision making.

From 2010 to 2015 he was responsible for leading quantitative research and applications at the Australian Department of Defence as part of a multi-disciplinary group providing advice, modelling and analysis on risk management, risk assessment, future scenarios, and resilience to senior decision-makers in Australian Commonwealth Government.

Since 2016 he has worked on food system and economic modelling for sustainability, risk and resilience within the Food System Transformation Group, fostering a broad range of international collaborations. In 2017 he launched FoodSIVI with Jason Czarnezki following a series of workshops.

He has been a highly cited researcher for Futures, Advances in Mathematics, and Environmental Modelling & Software. His modelling interests and present projects include dynamic equilibrium modelling with joint stochasticity in oil prices and shocks to corn yield, cost-modelling of global food system externalities, and machine-learning time series analysis of Sub-Sahara Africa food insecurity.

Research

Steven's research interests are divided between research into social and abatement costing of food system impact, pure mathematics, and food systems modelling.

Publications

Lord, S. (2023) “Higher food prices and poverty.”, Nature Food, 4(8), pp. 640–641.
Lord, S., McDonald, E., Sukochev, F. and Zanin, D. (2023) Singular Traces: Second Edition, pp. 1–473.
Lord, S. (2023) “Data for Background Report 2023 - Food System Economic Commission”. University of Oxford.
Lord, S. and Ingram, J. (2021) “Measures of equity for multi-capital accounting”, Nature Food, 2(9), pp. 646–654.
LORD, S., Zadeh, H., Weir, T. and Filinkov, A. (2021) “Strategic Risk Management in Practice”, in Ernst, A., Dunstall, S., Garcia-Flores, R., Grobler, M., and Marlow, D. (eds.) Data and Decision Sciences in Action 2. Springer, pp. 185–194.
Lord, S., Sukochev, F. and Zanin, D. (2020) “A last theorem of Kalton and finiteness of Connes’ integral”, Journal of Functional Analysis, 279(7), p. 108664.
Lord, S. (2020) Valuing the impact of food: towards practical and comparable monetary valuation of food system impacts. Food System Impact Valuation Initiative.
Sektas-Bilusich, D., Nunes-Vaz, R., Chim, L. and Lord, S. (2020) “A Risk-Based Framework to Inform Prioritisation of Security Investment for Insider Threats”, International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering, 10(1), pp. 49–57.
Lord, S., Sukochev, F. and Zanin, D. (2020) “Advances in Dixmier traces and applications”, in Advances in Noncommutative Geometry: On the Occasion of Alain Connes’ 70th Birthday, pp. 491–583.
Lord, S. (2020) “Data and code for equity statistics in multi-capital accounting”. University of Oxford.