Our speakers for the Digital Global Food Summit 2021
Michaela Kaniber
Bavarian minister of state for food, agriculture and forestry
Lim Chuan Poh
Chairman of Singapore Food Agency
Dr. Máximo Torero Cullen
Chief Economist, Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)
Oriana Romano
Head of Unit, Water Governance and Circular Economy in Cities in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner
President of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
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)
Dr. Volker Heinz
Executive Board of the German Institute of Food Technologies
Dr. Michael Binder
Vice President Sustainability Development of Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH
Dr. Tan Lee Kim
Director-General of Food Administration and Deputy Chief Executive, Singapore Food Agency
Dr. Pasi Vainikka
CEO & Co-Founder of Solar Food
Prof. Joel L. Cuello
Professor of Biosystems, University of Arizona, Vice Chair, Association for Vertical Farming (AVF)
Dr. S. M. Abdul-Awal
Professor of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, Khulna University
Prof. David Zilberman
Professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley & President of the American Agriculture and Applied Economic Association
Dr. Simon Reitmeier
Managing Director, Food Cluster Bavaria
Dr. Andy Zynga
CEO of EIT Food
Bernhard Kowatsch
Head of UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator, Nobel Peace Prize 2020
Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen
Professor of Urban Economics at the Wageningen University, Netherlands
Mara van der Kleij
Advisor Sustainability and Circular Economy (Food & organic rest streams) - City of Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Liesbet Vranken
Professor in agricultural, food and resource economics, Division of Bio-economics, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven
Prof. Justus Wesseler
Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Police at the Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Toepfl
Managing Director, Elea GmbH & Professor for Food Process Engineering, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
Didier Toubia
CEO and Founder, Aleph Farms
Dr. Dirk Voeste
Senior Vice President Regulatory, Sustainability & Public Affairs, BASF Agricultural Solutions
Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein
Head & Founder, Global Food Summit - Host of the Global Food Summit
Felix Willert
Project Leader at Innovate! & Host of the Start Up Session of the Global Food Summit
Johanna Kallenbach
Cluster manager, Food Cluster Bavaria & Host of the Start Up Session of the Global Food Summit
Stephanie Lahrtz
Science Editor, Moderator of the Discussion Panel of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
Dr. Adriano Profeta
Head of Department Consumer Research at the German Institute of Food Technologies DIL
Marieke Hamschmidt
Junior Global Marketing Manager - Flavor Division Symrise
Dr. Sergiy Smetana
Head of Food Data Group in the German Institute of Food Technologies DIL
Dr. Thomas Nemecek
Deputy leader of the Agroscope, Agroecology and Environment, LCA group
Dr. Fabian Riedel
CEO & Founder of Crusta Nova, Germany
Prof. Dr. Nick Lin Hi
Vechta University
PD Dr. Marco Körner
Chair of Remote Sensing Technology Department of Aerospace and Geodesy Technical University of Munich (TUM)