Philip Lymbery is Global Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming International, the leading farm animal welfare environmental organisation operating in more than 40 countries worldwide.

He is Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester, President of Eurogroup for Animals, the apex federation of more than 100 leading animal welfare societies in Europe and beyond. He is also a founding Board member of the World Federation for Animals.

In 2021, Philip had an ambassadorial role with the United Nations as a ‘Champion’ for the UN Food Systems Summit and was co-lead of the Summit’s Sustainable Livestock Solutions Cluster. In 2024, he was appointed by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to represent animal welfare at the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture.

Most recently, at the invitation of UN Deputy Secretary General Amina J Mohammed, Philip has become a member of the newly established UN Advisory Board on Food Systems.

Philip is a dedicated animal advocate, naturalist, photographer and award-winning author. His critically acclaimed books, Farmageddon: The true cost of cheap meat, and Dead Zone: Where the wild things were, were the first mainstream books to show the impact of factory farming on the climate, nature and pandemic emergencies facing humanity. His third book, Sixty Harvests Left: How to reach a nature-friendly future was published by Bloomsbury in August 2022.