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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. (2024) National hidden costs of agrifood systems and additional categories of hidden costs. Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Lord, S. (2024) Update to the methodology for the calculation of hidden costs of agrifood systems in the State of Food and Agriculture 2024. Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Lord, S. et al. (2024) “Global economic benefits of eating better”, in D’Silva, J. and McKenna, C. (eds.) Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets Human, Animal and Planetary Health. Routledge.
Lord, S. (2024) Comparative hidden costs of the Food System Economic Commission current trends and food system transformation pathways to 2050. Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Lord, S. (2023) Hidden costs of agrifood systems and recent trends from 2016 to 2023. Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Lord, S. (2023) “Higher food prices and poverty”, Nature Food, 4(8), pp. 640–641.
Lord, S. et al. (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. et al. (2021) “Strategic Risk Management in Practice”, in Ernst, A. et al. (eds.) Data and Decision Sciences in Action 2. Springer, pp. 185–194.