Staff
FACT Alliance Executive Committee

Gregory Sixt, PhD, is a research scientist at MIT’s Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), where he serves as director of research for food and climate systems. He is also director of the J-WAFS-led Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance—a global research network focused on shortening the link between research and action. Sixt is project lead for the Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability and leads research on social-ecological systems transitions. He holds lecturer appointments with MIT’s D-Lab and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, in Vienna, Austria (BOKU University), and is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford.

Prior to joining MIT, he worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) in the Institute of Bioenergy, Climate, and Environment and the Center for International Programs. Sixt has consulted for NGOs, governments, and international development organizations as a subject matter expert on agricultural knowledge and innovation systems, water governance, food systems transformation, and the climate-food systems nexus.

He holds a PhD in Agriculture, Food, and Environment and Water Diplomacy from The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. 

J-WAFS-funded projects

• Catalyzing sustainable food and climate systems transitions in the Lake Victoria Basin
• The Jameel Index for food trade and vulnerability

Publications

• Bilateral Trade Welfare Impacts of India’s Export Ban of Non-Basmati Rice Using the Global Partial Equilibrium Simulation Model (GSIM)
• A new convergent science framework for food system sustainability in an uncertain climate
• Assessing the food security implications of climate change on global food trade
• Why we must connect research to action to solve critical food systems and climate challenges
•  Implications on food security in high food importing countries: food import vulnerability in the Gulf cooperation council

News

• The FACT Alliance, led by J-WAFS, launches the Jameel Index at Oxford
• The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability launches at World Food Prize
• Director of the J-WAFS-led FACT Alliance discusses beef consumption tradeoffs
• J-WAFS researchers present at MIT’s Tech Reunion
• Members of the J-WAFS community attended COP27 to present on urgent climate concerns 
• J-WAFS' Greg Sixt serves as guest speaker for new MISTI course
• New J-WAFS-led project, supported by Community Jameel, combats food insecurity 
• J-WAFS World Water Day 2022 Groundwater Podcast
• J-WAFS led FACT Alliance op-ed in new issue of International Affairs Forum: Climate Change and Energy
• J-WAFS launches the Food and Climate Systems Transformation Alliance at COP 26
• J-WAFS’ Greg Sixt discusses food systems resilience to climate crisis at MIT workshop.