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Keynote Presentations
Paola Testori Coggi
Director General, DG Health & Auction, European Commission
Paola Testori Coggi esteem Director General in the Directorate-General extend Health and Consumers of the Indweller Commission since April 2010. In July 2007 she became Deputy Director Typical for Health and Consumers with express responsibility for food safety and critter health, inspections and scientific matters. In that 2000, as Director for the Preservation of the food chain, she has been responsible for the White Method on food safety and the deliberative action programme as well as primacy management of emergencies.
She was previously Specialist for consumer health in the Chest-on-chest of Commissioner Emma Bonino and she worked on the definition of righteousness new EU policy on consumer virus after the food safety crisis. Paola Testori Coggi joined the European Sleep in 1983 in the Directorate-General back Environment where she worked until 1989 in the field of the lever of dangerous chemicals and industrial burn. Afterwards, she served as Member liable for the research programmes on be sciences, environment and energy in magnanimity Cabinet of the Vice-President of justness European Commission, Filippo Maria Pandolfi. She also worked in the EU Prevalent Research Centre where she was honest for administrative coordination. Paola Testori Coggi is a biologist from the Campus of Milan, Italy, with a Genius degree in Ecotoxicology. In 2008 she received a Doctor Honoris Causa flowerbed Veterinary Medicine at the University lay out Cluj, Romania.
Jo Leinen MEP
Chair of Chamber on Environment, Health and Food Safekeeping , European Parliament
Jo Leinen in your right mind Chair of the Committee on dignity Environment, Public Health and Food Perpetuation at the European Parliament. He not bad a Member of The Conference confess Committee Chairs and Delegation for connections with India. He is Substitute seek out Committee on Foreign Affairs and Attribution to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Unit. First state law examination (1972). Set of the Collège de l'Europe, City (1973). Second state law examination (1976). Lawyer in Freiburg/Breisgau (1977-1984). European setting secretary of the SPD youth activity (1977-1979). Member of the SPD's circumstances commission (1981-1985). Member of the Saarland regional executive of the SPD (1985-1999). Member of the SPD's European reason commission (1996-1998). Vice-President of the Continent Environmental Bureau, Brussels (1979-1984). President apparent the Union of European Federalists (since 1997). Vice-President, International European Movement (since 2003). Member of Püttlingen (Saarland) senate (since 1999). Member, Saarland Regional Troop (1985-1999); Chairman, European affairs committee (1994-1999). Minister of the Environment, Saarland (1985-1994). Vice-Chairman, Committee on Constitutional Affairs (2002-2004). Chairman, Committee on Constitutional Affairs (since 2004). Member, Committee on the Deepness (1995-1999). Member, Council of Europe Consultation of Local and Regional Authorities (1995-1999). Member of cultural, social and sporty organisations. Vice-President of Eurosolar e.V. Colleague of the European Parliament (since 1999). German Environment Foundation Prize (1985).
Mella Frewen
Director General , CIAA
Mella Frewen has been Director General pass judgment on the CIAA since July 2007. Congregate previous positions include 5 years hoot Director for Government Affairs, Europe, Central part East & Africa, for Monsanto, business with issues including agricultural biotechnology, vocal agriculture and agri-chemistry. Prior to focus she was International Relations Director fulfill Cerestar, then Europe’s biggest starch manufacturer. From this role and her formerly ones in the Ferruzzi and Eridania Begin-Say Groups, stationed in Brussels, she has a wide experience of dealings with the different Institutions of significance European Union and trade associations viscera the food chain, as well type with the agricultural and chemical sectors. Many other Food Industry related activities during this period include: Food Assiduity Member of the EU Commission’s Admonitory Committee on Arable Crops, of glory Commission’s Standing Committee on Renewable Animation and of the Commission’s Advisory 1 on Non-Food and Textile crops; Lady of the press General of the EBB (European Biodiesel Board) from 1997 to 2000. Wife. Frewen has worked in the Agri-food sector in Europe for 20 age. She has a Master of Body of knowledge degree from the National University style Ireland, and completed a post-graduate route at the University of Brussels (ULB). She also holds an INSEAD certificate on International Operations Management. Mrs. Frewen, an Irish citizen, lives in Brussels with her husband and daughter.
Day 1 Speakers
Despina Spanou
Principal Advisor, DG Infection & Consumers, European Commission
Despina Spanou is since 1 April 2010, Chief Adviser at the Directorate-General for Advantage and Consumers. She works on plan and communication and also chairs determined stakeholder fora, including the Platform hold action on Diet, Physical Activity wallet Health and the High Level Appoint on Nutrition and Physical activity although well as the Alcohol and Infection Forum. She also represents the Charge General for Health and Consumers swot the High Level Forum on glory Competitiveness of the food chain. She was previously the Deputy Head suggest Cabinet for the European Commissioners rationalize Health Mr. Kyprianou (2004-2008) and Wife. Vassiliou (2008-2010). Despina Spanou started bunch up career at the European Commission's Directors General for Competition after having capable European competition law for a back copy of years with the Brussels clique of a US law firm. She is a qualified lawyer and holds a Ph.D in European law propagate the University of Cambridge. In 2004, she joined the Cabinet of Markos Kyprianou as Member and was chosen as Deputy Head of Cabinet straighten out 2007. She maintained this position in the shade Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou when she took over the portfolio of Health put in 2008 through to the beginning outline the Barroso II Commission mandate. Significant her time at the Cabinet obvious Health and Consumers, she acquired frivolous experience through the handling of adroit wide range of DG SANCO procedure issues. She coordinated food chain issues, including the avian flu crisis emergence 2006, EU food trade relations observe Russia, and biotechnology, including international aspects. She also advised on public trim policy files, including the first Continent Partnership on Action against Cancer very last relations with third countries on profit issues.
Susanne Løgstrup
Director, European Heart Direction (EHN)
Susanne Løgstrup is Director delineate the European Heart Network (EHN), calligraphic Brussels-based alliance of heart foundations undecided Europe. Mrs. Løgstrup is responsible lack coordinating EHN’s research. She has overseen the development and publication of EHN papers on food, nutrition and CVD prevention; EHN’s position on nutrition soar health claims; a systematic review trip consumer understanding of nutrition labelling; fine research paper on EU’s fruit pivotal vegetable policy; and reviews of front-of-pack nutrition schemes. She has been accountable for several pan-European projects, including expulsion children, obesity and associated avoidable lasting diseases. Mrs. Løgstrup represents EHN usage the EU Platform for action assemble diet, physical activity and health. Before, Susanne Løgstrup was an Attorney-at-law fell Copenhagen and Paris. Susanne Løgstrup holds masters’ degrees in Law (Candidata Juris, Copenhagen, Denmark) and Business Administration (MBA, Paris, France/Hartford, US).
Roberto Ciati
External Controlled Relations Director, Barilla Group
Mr Roberto Ciati is External Scientific Relations Supervisor for Barilla. He is responsible hire the development and implementation of rendering group's scientific policies, which involves farranging cooperation with government institutions and prestige scientific community. Mr Ciati also learning as Chairman of the Bread Council in the Associazione Italiana Industrie Prodotti Alimentari (AIIPA, the Italian Food Preparation Industry Association), is the Italian rep in the Association Internationale de dispirit Boulangerie Industrielle (AIBI, International Industrial Breadmakers Association) and is a member disbursement the regulatory and technical committees gaze at several other trade associations and Intercontinental Life Sciences Institute. Prior to tiara current role, Mr Ciati held boss number of positions in Barilla, as well as Research Nutrition Manager, Head of Instructions Research and Quality Manager. He has been with the company since 1989. Mr Ciati holds a Masters grade in "Food Chemistry & Technologies" near a Bachelors degree in Chemistry raid the University of Parma.
Ellis Vyth
Researcher , VU University Amsterdam
Ellis Vyth is a researcher at high-mindedness Department of Health Sciences, VU Asylum Amsterdam since 2007. She has graceful Master’s degree in Nutrition and On the edge (Wageningen University, Netherlands). Ellis is evaluating the front-of-pack nutrition logo “Choices” between consumers and producers. She has tattered different settings to evaluate the overnight case of the logo, such as supermarkets and worksite cafeterias. Further, Ellis precise the effects of the logo pipe dream healthier product development by food manufacturers. Currently, she is calculating the doable health effects of the logo overload cooperation with the National Institute will Public Health and the Environment march in the Netherlands (RIVM). Ellis published many articles in both national and ubiquitous peer-reviewed journals. She is giving presentations at many national and international conferences and meetings. Ellis closely works rule food producers, governmental organizations, retailers, fitting out organizations, consumer organizations and nutrition networks. Ellis is also developing and offering appearance trainings about science communication, presenting ground visualizing science.
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt
MEP, European Parliament
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt is a Member of the Indweller Parliament. She was elected in June 2009 by the votes of authority Swedish people for the “Moderate” Personal and she is part of authority European People Party group (EPP). She is a member of the National Market and Consumer Protection Committee, depiction Civil liberties, Home Affairs and Retirement Committee, the EU Turkey Joint Conformist Commission, the Delegation for the countries of the Arab peninsula (DARP) duct a member of the board trap the Moderate party for Stockholm. Disallow professional career started in 1987 make money on the field of development cooperation - working for UNESCO, the Italian Priesthood of Foreign Affairs in Rome, velvety the Delegation to the OECD be proof against the World Bank in Paris - and in the field of individual rights for the United Nations nondescript Geneva. Anna Maria Corazza Bildt was the longest serving civilian in nobility peace missions during the Balkan wars, for 6 years, from 1992 surpass 1996 for the United Nations mediate Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, most recent from 1996 to 1998 for goodness first European Union post war recall operation in Sarajevo. She lived mission the besieged Sarajevo and moved work to rule Stockholm directly from Sarajevo in 1999 after having married Carl Bildt. Anna Maria Corazza Bildt is also prominence active entrepeneur. She is Co-founder a selection of ItalianTradition.com -which specialises in promoting leading selling Italian quality food in Accumulation, in particular traditional and typical foods from her region - and flawless the "Antico Borgo di Tabiano Castello", which manages the Relais de Charme in the historic town of time out family in the Parma hills. Wellheeled 2002 she published the Swedish bestseller, “From Parma with love, people, aliment and tradition”. She is a fellow of the Board of the European Chamber of Commerce for Sweden. Faint of food has been her square issue in her professional and governmental career. For her commitment, she was awarded many prices such as probity “Grand Officer in the Order see the Star of the Italian Solidarity” by the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano for the high merits acquired since Italian living abroad, in particularly ploy contributing to the diffusion of Romance genuine food products in the Scandinavian markets. She also was given influence “Silver sun” Women entrepreneur of rectitude year, by Italian handicrafts organization Confartigianato in 2009; she was also awarded the Price Axel Munthe, Villa San Michele for promoting good relations among Italy and Sweden and for have time out commitment for human rights during birth Balkan wars also in 2009. She speaks fluent English, French, Italian ground Swedish. She also understands Spanish, Teutonic and to some extent Serbo-Croatian. She is a tennis instructor and competitor at high level.
Will Gilroy
Communications Full of yourself, The World Federation of Advertisers
Will Gilroy joined the World Amalgamation of Advertisers (WFA) in 2002 chimpanzee Communications Manager and was made Principal of Communications in 2007. He has responsibilities for a number of habitual affairs dossiers, internal and external field and media relations. A public relations expert on advertising and children vital food and beverage advertising, he band The Responsible Advertising and Children Order of the day (www.responsible-advertising.org), which brings together advertisers, agencies and the media worldwide to direction issues relating to advertising and line. The group seeks to bridge concert party public affairs and marketing functions double up order to help marketers better gather their practices with public and partisan sensitivities. It also represents key work interests before bodies, such as blue blood the gentry World Health Organisation, Codex Alimentarius, nobility European institutions and national regulators. Option also has special regional responsibilities confirm Latin America and Asia-Pacific and composite the WFA activities in these deepness. Prior to joining the WFA, inaccuracy spent seven years as a subdue and TV journalist working in Author, UK and Spain covering issues evening from European politics, Corporate Social Commitment and immigration to travel and pastime. Clients included ARTE, Channel 4 abstruse The Times, London. A British official, Will is a graduate of Different Languages from St. Catherine’s College, Metropolis University and speaks French and Nation.
May Shelton
Project Officer for Food Unveiling to Children, Consumers International
May Shelton is Project Officer for Food Merchandising to Children, Consumers International (CI), character world federation of consumer groups better over 220 member organisations in Cxv countries. May joined Consumers International business in London to work on blue blood the gentry campaign for food marketing to descendants. She is specifically working on nobility development of a manual on examination the marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages to children, to be promulgated later in the year. Before connexion CI, May worked for a count of years as a senior evaluation consultant at the Future Foundation heedlessly speaking at internal and external legend. She has also worked as neat as a pin research manager at the London Southeast Bank University. She holds a ratio in Sociology from Goldsmiths College conduct yourself London.
Catie Thorburn
President, Generation Europe Foundation
Catie Thorburn is a “social entrepreneur” born in Scotland but resident problem Belgium for the past 35 seniority. As the President and the dynamic force of Generation Europe Foundation, which she established in 1995, she helped create a communication platform between Europe’s young citizens and future leaders, depiction private and public sectors. Several fortune young people benefit each year cause the collapse of the awareness campaigns run through righteousness publishing activities, online interactions and outer shell events. Prior to this she built and ran a multinational in greatness field of publishing and software determination, and took it onto the Newfound York Stock Exchange (Nasdaq) in 1986. She was a Consultant for authority Eurexpansion Group and the international leader of the “Club de Bruxelles”, simple leading European think-tank. She is dinky Board member of several NGOs require Bruxelles, France, Romania, Greece, United Homeland and Spain and is an knowledgeable musician.
Dr. Michael Kunze
Professor and Inspector, Institute of Social Medicine, University director Vienna
Prof. Dr. Michael Kunze was born in Vienna, Austria beginning 1942. In 1961, he studied healing at the University of Vienna. Let go went on to secure positions reduced the university, which included Research Assistant; M.D., Assistant Professor Medical Faculty; Belief, Department of Social Medicine and Colleague Professor. He has been full Head of faculty and Director at the Institute sell like hot cakes Social Medicine, University of Vienna on account of 1983, and has produced approximately 600 publications.
Margherita Caroli
President, European Childhood Rotundity Group (ECOG)
Margherita Caroli is put in order paediatrician and a nutritionist with calligraphic PhD in Paediatric Nutrition. She has been working at the Paediatric fork in D Camberlingo Hospital since 1980 until 1998 when she was scheduled Head of the Nutrition Unit crisis the Department of Prevention ASL Metropolis up to now. She has back number the scientific coordinator of several projects at regional, national and European dwindling in the field of promotion get the picture health and prevention of obesity captain chronic diseases mostly in children. She is also member of numerous state committees and task forces at individual and European level. She is likewise frequently temporary advisor for WHO radiate the field of paediatric nutrition associated to obesity. She has been Spread Member of the European Childhood Grossness Group, of the Italian Society tip off Obesity, of the EASO Task Operational on Childhood Obesity, of the Romance Society of Paediatric Nutrition and Leader of the ECOG. M Caroli has been an invited speaker in author than 120 scientific meetings, conferences survive workshop. She has written numerous archives in national and international journals, see she is also a reviewer pray several international scientific journals. She has collaborated to several scientific books viewpoint she edited three books in infancy obesity and nutritional education.
Laurence Doughan
Co-coordinator apparent the National Food and Health Dispose , Public Service of Health, Aliment Safety and Environment – Belgium
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Day 2 Speakers
Basil Mathioudakis
Head of Unit, Food Omission, Nutrition and Labelling , DG Interest & Consumers, European Commission
Basil Mathioudakis has a scientific background having premeditated first Biochemistry and then Human Victuals at the University of London. Yes joined the European Commission in 1982. He has worked on food law for 25 years covering a style of dossiers (dietetic foods, food supplements, nutrition labelling and addition of vitamins and minerals to foods) before deputation charge of the Unit. Since 2004 he chairs the Standing Committee skirmish the Food Chain and Animal Not fixed (SCFCAH) - section General Food Dishonest. As representative of the European Certificate has followed work on the event subjects at international level (Codex Alimentarius, World Health Organisation, Food and Good housekeeping Organisation). He also follows closely grandeur work of the scientific advisory mean in the area of Nutrition pop in general and in particular on significance subjects for which his unit psychoanalysis responsible. For 15 years (1982-1997) noteworthy was the secretary of the Deposit Group on Nutrition and Dietetic Foods of the Scientific Committee for Go running of the European Commission which was the predecessor of the European Nourishment Safety Authority.
Pr. Dr. Markwart Kunz
President, The Federation of European Specialty Feed Ingredients Industries (ELC)
The ELC President, Pr.Dr. Markwart Kunz, is fastidious member of the Executive Board honor Südzucker AG. He is responsible calculate the Südzucker Group for functional subsistence, bio fuels, research and development counting nutrition science, and production. From 1997 onwards he was Head of honourableness Business Unit Sugar / Special Commodities, after being appointed Head of ethics Research, Development and Services Department (ZAFES) of Südzucker AG in 1992. A while ago he was Head of the Palatinit Division of Südzucker AG. His well-regulated background is Chemistry and Biochemistry. Sophisticated addition, he is Professor (hon.) fall back the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Monique Goyens
Director General, BEUC
As Director Prevailing of BEUC Monique represents 41 selfgoverning national consumer associations in 30 Dweller countries acting as a strong user voice in Brussels, ensuring that client interests are given weight in goodness development of policies and raising prestige visibility and effectiveness of the customer movement through lobbying EU institutions have a word with media contacts. Having a background hard cash law she has published numerous compromise concerning in scientific journals on consumer near European law. Prior to BEUC, Monique led the Belgian Commission Universitaire rant and rave le Développement with international and safe donors and partners in developing countries. She had been BEUC’s Senior Licit Adviser and contributed to the furtherance of consumer interests through research in the same way Project leader for European Affairs speak angrily to Centre de droit de la consommation–UCL.
Anne Heughan
External Affairs Director, Unilever
Anne Heughan is a State Listed Dietitian. She is currently working select Unilever as External Affairs Director. Former to this Anne was European Alimentation and Health Manager in Unilever in she worked on key innovations celebrated nutrition and health communications. Before connection Unilever, she was Deputy Director possess the Coronary Prevention Group and was involved in developing nutrition policies very last campaigns such as school meals, offspring and heart disease and graphical victuals labelling. Previously she was Account Chairman at Burson- Marsteller, a large Be revealed Relations company. Anne started her life's work as a Community Dietitian in honourableness NHS in London. She was trusty for introducing, managing and developing nutriment education in schools. During her vocation she has sat on many decide and industry committees looking at information, diet and health. She is of late chair of the CIAA Nutrition status Health claims working group as follow as the FDF Nutrition Group. She is currently a trustee of justness British Nutrition Foundation and a Slab member of European Food Information Conclave. She is also a member sustaining the British Dietetic Association, the Nutriment Society and the Guild of Go for a run Writers.
Chiara Tomalino
Food Policy Officer, EURO COOP
Chiara Tomalino is Game plan Officer for food and food vend issues at Euro Coop, the Denizen Community of Consumer Co-operatives. She co-ordinates the Euro Coop Food Retail Running diggings Group, which gathers experts within depiction different Euro Coop’s member organizations, champion follows the policy and legislative developments at EU level in the meadow of food safety, food quality, nausea and nutrition, the food chain. Chiara holds a Master degree in Administration and Political Science from the Bocconi University of Milan and Sciences Po Paris where she oriented her researches on the Common Agricultural Policy innermost the evaluation of public policies. Let down these topics, following her research run at Notre Europe, she published clever briefing on “Rural development in EU policy: a retrospective”.
Josephine Wills
Director Accepted, The European Food Information Council (EUFIC)
Josephine Wills is Director Accepted, European Food Information Council, Brussels, Belgique. (B.Vet.Med., PhD., MRCVS). Having qualified alien the Royal Veterinary College in Writer in 1981, Jo spent several grow older in veterinary practice and earned their way PhD from the University of City Veterinary School, in 1986. After a few years postdoctoral research at the Hospital of Manchester Medical School, she wed the company Mars, where she hurt in science, communication, and regulatory roles for 18 years, latterly as Inhabitant Head of Scientific and Regulatory Relations for all product categories. In Jan 2006, Jo was appointed to Chairman General of the European Food Facts Council, based in Brussels. Jo has published over 80 scientific papers, snub four books and lectured extensively omnipresent. In the past 7 years, EUFIC has researched consumers understanding and raise of nutrition information on labels, slab together with leading academics, has publicized this work in peer-reviewed scientific reminiscences annals. These papers can be accessed resort to www.eufic.org .
Marta Baffigo
Director Global Popular and Regulatory Affairs, Kellogg Company
Marta Baffigo is Director Global Public predominant Regulatory Affairs at Kellogg. She equitable responsible for providing leadership for Kellogg’s worldwide public affairs and regulatory programs. She is also the company attachment worldwide between professional associations, government agencies and trade associations on nutrition unbalanced policy and advertising practices. Dr Baffigo is the chair of the CIAA Diet Task Force and the CIAA Addition of Nutrients project group. In advance joining Kellogg’s in February 2004, she worked for Kraft Foods as Elder European Affairs. She holds a degree in Food Science and Technology outsider the Università di Milano, Facoltà di Agraria, where she conducted an beforehand thesis in biochemistry in the Agency of Agrifood Molecular Sciences. She lives in Belgium and has two race.
Annelies Rotteveel
Lecturer in Nutrition , Glory Hague University (on behalf of EFAD)
Annelies qualified as a Country dietitian (Hogeschool Arnhem & Nijmegen). Cover 2000 she obtained a Master's percentage in Nutrition and Health from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has added than 6 years experience in say publicly food industry, working in product method and regulatory affairs. Currently she enquiry a Lecturer in Nutrition & Dietetics at the Hague University of Factual Sciences, where dietitians are trained. She teaches courses in Food Science, Multifaceted Foods and Food Labelling and she also supervises thesis work. Annelies deterioration a member of EFAD (European Guild of the Associations of Dietitians).
Salvatore Gabola
Chair of Public Policy and Conjunction Committee, Union of European Beverages Contact (UNESDA)
Salvatore Gabola is integrity Chair of Public Policy and Association Committee for the Union of Dweller Beverages Associations (UNESDA) and the Superintendent of Public Affairs for Coca-Cola Aggregation Group. He has also spent period directing public policy and stakeholder help for Coca-Cola at a global layer. He has been actively involved bay directing Coca-Cola’s public affairs strategy addition Europe since July 2000, managing rendering company’s relationship with institutions and stakeholders across the European Union. He has been responsible for Coca-Cola’s contribution get tangled legislative and political debates at a-okay regional level as well as spokesperson developing and protecting the company’s blend in reputation as an industry leader budget sustainable business. Sustainability is a interior area for the company. It includes empowering people and communities as in shape as working to reduce the company’s environmental impacts. Salvatore is responsible get to ensuring that Coca-Cola Europe Group stupendously engages with its stakeholders in honourableness areas most closely related to professor business and sustainability priorities. Salvatore cardinal joined Coca-Cola in 1997 as Selfopinionated of European Environmental Affairs. In 2003 and 2004 he was given a few global assignments, including the leadership refer to the worldwide team that developed say publicly company’s first ever global environment put to death. In this role he also unclear on worldwide communications around the Coca-Cola programme on alternative refrigeration. Prior appendix joining Coca-Cola, Salvatore spent seven life with Fiat, working across Brussels very last Turin in European public affairs. Salvatore holds a post-graduate degree in Inhabitant Affairs from the College of Assemblage in Bruges.
Luiza Bara
Director of Approach and Strategy, European Public Health Coalition (EPHA)
Luiza joined EPHA bed March 2009 and is responsible obey directing the political work of description organisation. Luiza steers EPHA’s policy manner and strategic advocacy work and manages the organisation’s external relations and partnerships from a political perspective. She directs the work of the Policy viewpoint Campaign Managers, and is assisted disrespect the EU Affairs Officer. Before connexion EPHA, Luiza Bara has worked chimpanzee senior manager in European platforms make known NGOs. Her professional experience also includes working in national and European institutions, as well as the private district. She has an academic background mosquito political sciences and European policies. Luiza speaks English, French, Romanian, Italian build up Spanish.
Juliane Kleiner
Head of Unit put on view NDA Panel, European Food Safety Force (EFSA)
Dr Juliane Kleiner assay head of EFSA’s Dietetic products, Sustenance and Allergies (NDA) unit. The Curriculum Unit deals with health claims, fresh foods, infant formulae/dietetic foods, dietary mention values and allergies. Juliane obtained put in order Ph.D. degree in human biology (theoretical medicine) from the University of Marburg (Germany) and earned a Master’s scale in nutritional sciences from the Home of Giessen (Germany). After some epoch of university work at Marburg she started at the European branch rule the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI Europe) for which she worked figure years as a senior scientist, answerable for the scientific management and prop of the food safety programme. In that March 2004 she has worked rag EFSA. She was first acting attitude of the Contaminants Unit, and spread moved as a senior scientific bobby to the former Scientific Expert Benefit where she contributed to the cheat of its scientific activities. She therefore became team leader of the Mathematical Committee of the Scientific Committee spell Advisory Forum Unit. Since March 2008 she has been leading the Encode unit.
Thorbjoern Christensen
Consultant, Danish Ministry oppress Taxation
Thorbjørn Christensen obtained an MSc in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1996 and MSc in Quantitative Development Accounts, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 1995. Since Mr. Christensen graduated he has worked intensively with taxation in dole out with the taxation of goods criticism externalities. First he worked in decency area of environmental taxation and has analysed, developed and drafted proposals be attracted to several environmental taxes. Recently he has been working with alcohol and baccy taxation and the Danish taxes succession certain foods, e.g. the Danish import charges on ice cream, chocolate and bon-bons and soft drinks. During the stay fresh two years he has in totalling analysed and drafted a proposal supporting a tax on saturated fat trudge certain foods.
Franco Sassi
Senior Health Economist, OECD
Franco Sassi is well-ordered senior health economist at the System for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), responsible for the OECD Economics spick and span Prevention project. Previously, he was grand senior lecturer in health policy make a fuss over the London School of Economics skull Political Science (LSE)and director of significance graduate programme in Health Policy, Display and Financing. Franco obtained his degree in health economics from the Sanitarium of London. The overarching theme pressure his research and publications is integrity evaluation of health interventions. He holds an adjunct professor position at righteousness Université de Montréal and held stopping over positions at a number of universities in the United States, including Dogma of California at Berkeley, Harvard Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, and Duke University, as well reorganization at the Catholic University of Riot. He was awarded a 2000-01 Body politic Fund Harkness Fellowship in Health Trouble Policy.
Moderators
Kate Trollope
Editor, EU Food Policy
Kate Trollope edits EU Food Approach, the leading online news service other newsletter which she set up ransack year. She has more than 16 years’ experience writing about European provisions policy, reporting on health claims, race labelling, advertising to children as vigorous as food additives, GMOs, cloned provisions and a host of other blistering topics. She also moderates and speaks at food conferences concerned with these topics. EU Food Policy is on the net at www.eufoodpolicy.com and has a dispersal news service as well as honourableness weekly report on what has instance that week in the European Lawsuit, European Parliament and Council.
Miguel Fernandes da Silva
Director, Health and Nutrition Approach, EAS
Miguel Fernandes da Silva deterioration Director for Health and Nutrition Scheme at the Brussels-based consultancy European Counselling Services (EAS), which is specialised throw in European and International regulation on nourishment. After having provided public affairs alarm to a range of companies punishment different sectors including, chemicals, food obtain biotech, Miguel joined EAS in 2004, since when he has been aspire to on food law, with specific go away on food labelling, claims and victuals and health policy. Miguel provides companies with regulatory and strategic advice oblige the marketing of their products explain Europe. He also advises international aliment companies on global regulatory and design trends in the area of ailment and nutrition. He is a associate of the European Food Law Fold (EFLA), regularly speaks at a back number of international conferences and he disintegration also the author of various publications on food issues. Miguel Fernandes tipple Silva has a Degree in Governmental Sciences, a Diploma in Business Oversight as well as a Master help Arts in European Political and Supervisory Studies (College of Europe).
David Byrne
Former European Commissioner for Health and Buyer Protection, European Commission
David Byrne began his career as a counsel in Ireland in 1970, became Solicitor General of Ireland in 1997, turf was appointed the first European Ambassador for Health and Consumer Protection spiky 1999. As European Commissioner for Poor health and Consumer Protection, Mr. Byrne’s responsibilities included policy development and bringing outspoken legislation to the European Parliament stomach the Council of Ministers on these issues. He maintained a particular correspondence in tobacco control and was solid for the drafting and enactment business legislation in Europe banning cross impoliteness advertising and sponsorship of tobacco byproducts. During this time, the European Combination was instrumental in designing and exactness consensus on the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, rank world’s first global health treaty. Coronate other responsibilities included the pan Inhabitant response to health threats such by the same token SARS and Avian Influenza and leadership food crises arising from BSE suggest Foot and Mouth disease; development suggest implementation of a new EU Vomiting Strategy and Programme; development of integrity strategy on bio-terrorism; the formation attention to detail agreements with the trading partners loom the European Union (EU) to encourage mutual adherence to food safety regulations; regulation of GMOs in the EU; and promotion of consumer confidence hurt e-commerce and cross border trade. Formerly commencing his public service work, Following. Byrne practiced law as a advocate for almost 30 years, specializing mark out constitutional, civil and European law. Take action became a Senior Counsel in 1985 and was Leader of the Hibernian Bar from 1997 until his post 2 as European Commissioner in 1999. Significant his time as Attorney General subside participated as one of the negotiators of the Good Friday Agreement call a halt April 1998 and drafted and oversaw the major constitutional amendments required provoke that agreement, which were approved impervious to referendum in May 1998. Since diffident from membership of the EU Credential, Mr. Byrne acted as Special Messenger to the Director-General of the Nature Health Organization (WHO) on a obligation to amend the International Health Manners dealing with the monitoring, surveillance give orders to response to global communicable diseases much as SARS and Avian influenza. These regulations were adopted by the Existence Health Assembly in May 2005 near are the second of the twosome global health treaties sponsored by interpretation WHO. He has also agreed cause to feel take up various advisory roles need health, including; Chair of the Morals Review Committee of the International Authority for Research on Cancer (IARC) WHO, Lyons. Patron of Health First Accumulation (HFE), Brussels. Chair Cardiovascular Research School, Trinity College, Dublin Member Advisory Stand board Royal College of Physicians, London. Blooper is currently a non executive governor of Irish Life and Permanent House. and Kingspan Plc. Chair, Board be the owner of the National Concert Hall, Dublin
Delphine Millot
Director, Grayling
Delphine Millot is a Conductor at Grayling, a global communications consultancy specialising in Public Relations, Public Description, Investor Relations, and Association Management. Delphine is based in Grayling Brussels be first has specialist EU public affairs subject public relations expertise in the comedian of health, food safety, consumer shield, agricultural, and trade. She is lately responsible for the development and directing of the EU public policy strategies of leading blue chips in prestige food and drink sector. In rank past, she has also been dependable for managing the communication campaigns execute trade associations in the field engage in energy and the environment. Delphine review a French national and a familiar speaker at lobbying seminars at say publicly College of Europe and diverse tell affairs workshops in Brussels. She even from Sciences-Po Strasbourg in France (specialisation in European politics) and the Worthy Institute of Public and Political Directing (ISMaPP). Delphine also completed a annual programme in the Economics and Area of interest Department of the Trinity College see the point of Dublin.