Sumantra (Shumone) Ray is a UK licensed medical doctor and a registered public health nutritionist. He is the Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health in Cambridge. His work has been recognised through Fellowships awarded by Wolfson and Fitzwilliam Colleges at the University of Cambridge. He holds a fractional appointment as a Full Professor of Global Nutrition, Health and Disease at Ulster University.

He has also been a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and most recently has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at Kings College London. Internationally, Shumone is an Honorary Distinguished Visiting Professor at the SNU Institution of Eminence in Delhi India. He is also the co-founder and Chair of the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. Professor Ray has published over 200 scientific papers. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research and the Elsevier Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare.