Our speakers for the Digital Global Food Summit 2021
Michaela Kaniber, MdL
Bavarian minister of state for food, agriculture and forestry (confirmed)
Lim Chuan Poh
Chairman of Singapore Food Agency (confirmed)
Dr. Máximo Torero Cullen
Chief Economist, Economic and Social Development Department (ES) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome (confimed)
Oriana Romano
Head of Unit Water Governance and Circular Economy Cities, Urban Policies, and Sustainable Development Division Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), (confirmed)
Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner
President of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) (confirmed)
Prof. Dr. Sophie Hieke
Professor of Marketing and Communication at Munich Business School and Head of Consumer Research at the European Centre for Food Information (EUFIC) - (confirmed)
Dr. Volker Heinz
Executive Board of the German Institute of Food Technologies e. V. (confirmed)
Hubert Aiwanger
State Minister for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy of the Free State of Bavaria (tbc)
Dr. Michael Binder
Vice President Sustainability Development of Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH (confirmed)
Dr. Tan Lee Kim
Director-General of Food Administration and Deputy Chief Executive, Singapore Food Agency (confirmed)
Dr. Pasi Vainikka,
CEO & Co-Founder of Solar Food (confirmed)
Joel L. Cuello
Ph.D. Vice Chair, Association for Vertical Farming (AVF) Professor of Biosystems, University of Arizona (confirmed)
Prof. S. M. Abdul-Awal
Professor of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, Khulna University (confirmed)
Prof. David Zilberman
Professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley & President of the American Agriculture and Applied Economic Association (confirmed)
Dr. Simon Reitmeier,
Managing director, Bavarian Food Cluster at Competence Centre of Nutrition (confirmed)
Dr. Andy Zynga
CEO of EIT Food (confirmed)
Bernhard Kowatsch
Head of the Innovation Accelerator at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Nobel Peace Prize 2020 (confirmed)
Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen
Professor of Urban Economics at the Wageningen University, Netherlands (confirmed)
Mara van der Kleij
Advisor Sustainability and Circular Economy (Food & organic rest streams) - City of Amsterdam (confirmed)
Prof. Dr. Liesbet Vranken
Professor in agricultural, food and resource economics, Division of Bio-economics, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven (confirmed)
Prof. Justus Wesseler
Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Police at the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) (confirmed)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Toepfl
Managing Director, Elea GmbH & Professor for Food Process Engineering, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences (confirmed)
Didier Toubia
CEO and Founder, Aleph Farms (confirmed)
Dr. Gerd Müller
Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (confirmed)
Dr. Dirk Voeste
Senior Vice President Regulatory, Sustainability & Public Affairs, BASF Agricultural Solutions (confirmed)
Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein
Head & Founder, Global Food Summit - Host of the Global Food Summit (confirmed)
Felix Willert
Project leader at Innovate! & Host of the Start Up Session of the Global Food Summit (confirmed)
Johanna Kallenbach
Cluster manager, Bavarian Food Cluster at Competence Centre of Nutrition & Host of the Start Up Session of the Global Food Summit (confirmed)
Stephanie Lahrtz
Moderator of the Discussion Panel of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) (confirmed)