Place of birth: Worksop, United Kingdom
Head of Unilever’s Nutrition Patents
“New technologies will be required to secure a sustainable future by transforming the global food chain. In order for partners to work together confidently to provide new innovations, intellectual property is essential.
Before beginning work as an ice cream scientist at Unilever in 1996, Danny Keenan was originally trained as a chemist and earned a DPhil in food biopolymers. In 2003, Danny changed occupations to become a patent attorney after realising the importance of intellectual property to the creative sector through the protection of ideas he developed while creating new ice cream technologies.
He currently serves as the head of the international patent group that safeguards Unilever’s advancements in nutrition. The group wants to fulfil the Future Foods Commitments that serve as the foundation for the business’s nutrition division and its nutrition business, and it is his ambition to help shape a fair global food system. Danny Keenan is also president of the UK IP Federation.