Christine Mary Williams OBE is Professor emeritus of Human Nutrition and was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Reading.
[1] Williams has a BSc in Nutrition (University of London, 1973) and a PhD from Guy's Hospital Medical School (1978).
From 1978 to 1995, she worked at the University of Surrey, as a post-doctoral researcher, then Lecturer, then Reader in Human Nutrition.
[2] She moved to Reading in 1995 as Hugh Sinclair Professor of Nutrition, and has been Head of the School of Food Biosciences (2003–2006), Dean of Life Sciences (2006–2008), and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise) before taking up her current position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) in 2008.
[3] She was awarded an OBE "For services to Higher Education and to Nutrition Science" in the 2013 Birthday Honours.