Speakers
Confirmed Speakers
Confirmed Speakers
Antonio Tajani
Vice President & Europe Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, European Commission
Born in Rome on 4 August 1953
Married with 2 children
Lived in Paris, Bologna and Rome
Education and languages
Classical studies at the 'Torquato Tasso' secondary school, Rome
Degree in Law from 'La Sapienza' University
Foreign languages: French, English and Spanish
Professional Activities
Officer of the Italian Air Force
He completed officer training at the Florence AirWarfare School (Scuola di Guerra Aerea) and attended a specialisation course for Air Defence Controller at the Training Technical Centre at Borgo Piave. Assigned to the Operational Base of the 33rd Air Force Radar Centre, he worked as Air Defence Controller and was Head of the Operations Room monitoring Italian and European civil and military air traffic.
Professional journalist and parliamentary journalist Editor of the Italian weekly 'Il Settimanale'
Presenter for the RAI 1 radio news programme
Head of the Rome editorial office of the Italian daily 'Il Giornale' Special correspondent in Lebanon, the Soviet Union and Somalia
Together with Silvio Berlusconi, he was one of the signatories of the founding act of Forza Italia
Political Positions
European Commission Vice-President and Commissioner in charge of Industry and Entrepreneurship from February 2010.
European Commission's Vice-President and Commissioner in charge of Transport from May 2008 to February 2010
Vice-Chair of the European People's Party, elected at the EPP Congress in Estoril in 2002, re-elected at the EPP Congress in Rome in 2006 and re-elected again at the EPP Congress in Bonn in 2009
Member of the Bureau of the Group of the European People's Party. He has taken part in all EPP summits in preparation of the European Councils
Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe, which drew up the text of the European Constitution
Elected as member of the European Parliament in 1994, 1999 and 2004 with over 120 000 preference votes
During his 15 years of parliamentary activity he took part in many committees (Foreign Affairs, Constitutional Affairs, at the time chaired by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, Transport and Tourism, Fisheries, Security and Defence).
Head of the Forza Italia delegation in the European Parliament from June 1999 until May 2008
Spokesman for the President of the Italian Council of Ministers during the first Berlusconi Government
Despina Spanou
Chair of EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, DG SANCO, European Commission
Since 1 April 2010, Despina Spanou has been Principal Adviser at the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers. She works on policy and communication and also chairs certain stakeholder fora, including the Platform for action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health and the High Level Group on Nutrition and Physical activity as well as the Alcohol and Health Forum. She also represents the Directorate General for Health and Consumers at the High Level Forum on the Competitiveness of the food chain. She was previously the Deputy Head of Cabinet for the European Commissioners for Health Mr. Kyprianou (2004-2008) and Mrs. Vassiliou (2008-2010). Despina Spanou started her career at the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition after having practised European competition law for a number of years with the Brussels branch of a US law firm. She is a qualified lawyer and holds a Ph.D in European law from the University of Cambridge. In 2004, she joined the Cabinet of Markos Kyprianou as Member and was nominated as Deputy Head of Cabinet in 2007. She maintained this position under Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou when she took over the portfolio of Health in 2008 through to the beginning of the Barroso II Commission mandate. During her time at the Cabinet of Health and Consumers, she acquired significant experience through the handling of a wide range of DG SANCO policy issues. She coordinated food chain issues, including the avian flu crisis in 2006, EU food trade relations with Russia, and biotechnology, including international aspects. She also advised on public health policy files, including the first European Partnership on Action against Cancer and relations with third countries on health issues.
Jacques Stern
Chairman & CEO, Edenred
Jacques Stern is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lille and a certified chartered accountant. After beginning his career with Pricewaterhouse as an auditor, he joined Accor in 1992 as Consolidation Officer and became Group Financial Planning Officer in 1996. He was then successively appointed Group Controller General (2000), Executive Deputy Chief Financial Officer (2002) and Chief Financial Officer (January 2003). In March 2005, he became Member of the Management Board, in charge of Finance. In 2006, Jacques Stern was appointed Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President in charge of Purchasing and Information Systems and Member of the Executive Committee. On September 1, 2008, he has also been in charge of Group Strategy and Hotel Business Development. In March 2009, Jacques Stern is appointed Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in charge of Finance, Strategy, Hotel Business Development and IT. In December of the same year, he took the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Accor, in charge of Services and Finance. The 29th June of 2010, he became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edenred, world leader in prepaid corporate services.
Christopher Wanjek
Author, Food at Work, published by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Christopher Wanjek is a health and science writer based near Washington, D.C. He is the author of two health books, Food at Work (2005) and Bad Medicine (2003), and also has written over 300 newspaper, magazine and web articles for periodicals such as The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine. The Food at Work book and project was commissioned by the International Labor Organization. This project documents how meals, or the lack there of, are a health, safety and productivity issue for workers in all countries, rich or poor. The book contains over 50 case studies of "food solutions" from around the world, ranging from high-price cafeterias to low-cost street food options. The book has been presented in more than a dozen countries. Wanjek holds a master's of health degree from Harvard School of Public Health and a degree in journalism from Temple University. He is currently the director of communications for the Office of Intramural Research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a position unrelated to the ongoing Food at Work project.
Olivier Christiaens
Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Belgium
Olivier Christiaens has been working as an expert in communication at the Belgian Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment since 2005. He has a Master in Communication Sciences from the University of Ghent. His main focus today is with the National Food and Health Plan. This plan tries to encourage healthy eating habits and a good level of physical activity for the Belgian population. This is achieved by a multidisciplinary approach in various domains.
Juan Ballesteros
Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency, (AESAN)
Juan Ballesteros is a technical adviser at the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) since August 2004. In this role he is responsible for coordinating the Strategy on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Prevention of Obesity (NAOS Strategy) and the Action Plan to Reduce the Salt Intake, at a national and European level. He is currently the nutrition counterpart in the WHO European Region, member of the UE High Level Group on Nutrition and Physical Activity and the European Salt Action Network. Before joining the AESAN he was Head of the Food Safety Unit at the Gómez-Ulla Hospital of Madrid for three years. He has also worked for four years as a consultant on food and nutrition at the Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU). He graduated in Veterinary Science at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 1991. He then completed his training with a master’s degree in Public Health at the National School of Health in Madrid and the title of Specialist in Food Science and Food Hygiene at the Military School of Health. His currently finishing a degree in Science and Food Technology at the University Complutense of Madrid.
Ulf Bohman
Keyhole Restaurant Association, Sweden
Mr. Bohman has worked in the health, nutrition and wellness fields for over 25 years as a consultant, author and innovator of new concepts for public and private institutions. Mr. Bohman was formerly the head of the Nutrition Department of the Swedish National Food Administration and is currently the CEO of the Keyhole Restaurant Association, a non-profit organization which promotes and certifies healthy meal options in restaurants.
Ambroise Martin
Medical School, Claude Bernard University - Lyon
Ambroise Martin, PhD, MD, Professor of Nutrition and biochemistry at the Lyon-Est Medical School, Claude Bernard University, Lyon (France), Biologist (biochemistry) in the East Hospital Group in Lyon. Up to 1999, member of the research Unit 189 of the French Institute for health and medical research (Inserm), working on the nutritional regulation of glycoprotein synthesis. Then (1999-2004), head of the department for nutrition and risk assessment of the French Food Safety Agency (Afssa). Coordinator of the French Nutritional recommendations (Apports nutritionnels conseillés pour la population française, 1996-2001). Member of the Expert Committee on Nutrition of Afssa and of the NDA Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA, since 2006); member of the working group on claims and chair of the working group on Dietary Reference Values. Member of the steering Committee of the French national Nutrition and Health Policy and of the French National Council for foods. Chair of the scientific committee of the French research program on foods of the French National Research Agency (2006-2008).
Caroline Bollars
World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Europe
Caroline Bollars joined the WHO Regional Office for Europe in 2009 where she is responsible for Nutrition Policy in the Division of Non-communicable Diseases. She is carrying out work related to the implementation of WHO European Charter on Counteracting Obesity and the WHO European Action Plan for Food and Nutrition Policy 2007-2012. Caroline holds a Master's degree in Public Health from the University of Maastricht and a professional Bachelor in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University College of Ghent. She took the opportunity to combine her studies with some field work in South Africa, focusing on HIV/AIDS and nutrition. Moving back to Belgium, she started her professional career at the Flemish Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Brussels. After two years, she decided it was time for a change and joined a pan-European NGO as policy manager, following the developments in the field of European public health policy. After two years in EU Public Health Policy, she moved to the WHO European Office in Copenhagen.
Martin Caraher
City University, London
Martin is profressor of food and health policy at the Centre for Food Policy at City University. He has worked on issues related to food poverty, cooking skills, local sustainable food supplies, the role of markets and co-ops in promoting health, farmers markets, food deserts & food access, retail concentration and globalisation. Current research interests include:
• The role of local food projects in promoting health.
• Local area access to food in London with work in the boroughs of Hackney and Islington.
• A review of food projects funded and supported by health authorities in England.
• An evaluation of local food projects in London.
• A review of the planning process nationwide in promoting food projects.
• Cooking skills among young people and the changing nature of food skills and the culinary transition.
• The role of food markets in promoting health and well-being.
• Farmers markets and new selling spaces.
• Food, arts and public spaces.
• The food supply chain and ethics.
Recent work has focused on the impact of food advertising on children’s food choices and the impact of advertising regulation. In addition he has been developing work in schools and this has included work for the UK Dept of Health, the World Health Organization (Europe) on school feeding programmes in Latvia and for the World Bank on school food in Lesotho. He works with colleagues in Australia in the Coalition on Food Advertising to Children, sharing ideas and resources. His interests in sustainability come from the perspective of local food chains and the attempts by social enterprises to build sustainability into their work.
Laure Saulais
PhD. Research Scientist, Institut Paul Bocuse Research Centre: Main findings of the surveys
Laure Saulais has a MSc. in Food and Life Science Engineering from Agro Paris Tech University, and a PhD in Economics from Grenoble University. Since she joined the Institut Paul Bocuse Research Centre in September 2009, she has been taking part in the development of research activities and methodologies, the coordination of projects and the academic activities of the Institut Paul Bocuse. Her main area of research is economics, and especially experimental methods, with a focus on the study of consumer decisions, behaviours and economic preferences in a restaurant context.
Giuseppe Masanotti
University of Perugia, Coordinator European Campaign MoveEurope: Promoting Workplace Health Promotion in European Companies
Giuseppe Masanotti, MD, Specialisation in Public Health, PhD in Health Education and expert in Occupational Health. Member of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and of European Network for Workplace Health Promotion. On the Scientific board of two scientific journals “Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo” and “Educazione Sanitaria e Promozione della Salute”. Professor of Hygiene, epidemiology and Industrial Hygiene in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Perugia. Researcher in the field of public health (policy, organization, evaluation, …), health promotion and education and occupational medicine (application of health promotion in the workplace from policy to evaluation). Manager of research programmes, public health interventions and health promotion programmes at regional, national and international level. Have over 65 publications in: scientific journals, books, reports and communications in Italy and abroad.
Iva Malkova
STop OBesity project (STOB), “Healthy Living the Easy Way“ Association: actions in restaurants
PhDr. Iva Málková finished her study of psychology at Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in 1978. She has been interested in the area of obesity for 30 years.
STOB Society (STop OBesity)
The STOB was established in 1990 and joins together psychologists, medical doctors, diet nurses, instructors of appropriate physical exercises and other professionals. It has trained more than 300 instructors for leading weight reduction courses and other activities.
STOB Society activities are based on the method of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. The method used by STOB was successfully verified by many tens of thousands of clients and it is acknowledged as an effective part of complex approach to the therapy of obesity in the Czech Republic. It is intended for overweight clients or clients with a lower level of obesity.
The aim of activities is to motivate people and offer them possibilities how to improve their life style. In these programs, CBT is used.
The main goals of STOB Society can be divided into the following areas:
• Weight reduction courses (in 100 towns)
• Internet courses (35 000 participants)
• Counseling centers - direct (personal presence), via e-mail, via Skype, internet programs
• Popularization of cognitive-behavioral approach in media, national campaigns
• Special physical exercises for obese people
• Training of specialists for leading courses
• Materials facilitating weight reduction (brochure, CD. DVD, calendar, books).
Agneta Yngve
Karolinska Institutet & Akershus University College, Evaluation of the FOOD* project
Current employers
Akershus University College, Department of Health, nutrition and management, P.O. Box 423, NO-2001 Lillestrøm, Norway
AND
Karolinska Institutet, Department of biosciences and nutrition, Unit for public health nutrition, NOVUM, SE 141 57 Huddinge, Sweden.
Educational background
Basic
Fil kand (BSc) chemistry and nutrition Lunds universitet 1975
Fil mag (MSc) nutrition Stockholms Universitet 1996
Master Medical Science Public Health, Karolinska Institutet 2000
Postgraduate
Med Dr (PhD) Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet 2005
Docent (Assoc. professor) Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet 2008
Professor, Akerhus University College 2009
Other relevant courses
Health pedagogics, 7.5 ECTS Nordic school of public health 1989
Pedagogics for university teachers I, LIME, KI 2003
Research supervision course, KI 2003
Equity course for managers, KI 2006
Leadership course, KI 2007
Earlier relevant positions
Laboratory assistant, Lund University Hospital 1975
University Lecturer Örebro, lab assistant programme 1979
Free lance nutritionist, writer, teacher, consultant 1980-1987
Nutritionist, Stockholm county council,
Department of medical nutrition 1987-1990
University lecturer and unit head,
Department of biosciences at NOVUM, KI 1990 - 2006
Senior lecturer and unit head,
Department of biosciences and nutrition, KI 2006-2008
Current position
Associate professor and unit head,
Department of biosciences and nutrition, KI 2008 –
Professor of Nutrition and Health Communication,
Akershus University College 2009 –
Toni Colom
Public Health, Balearic Islands, Spain: role of the Advisory Board
Personal details :
Full Name: Antonio Colom Umbert
Age: 56
Current address: Playa de Sóller - Mallorca
Qualifications:
- PDD (Specialism in Management and Business Administration):2006.
- External Assessor of the EFQM Excellence Model (Quality Management): 2004.
- External Food Safety – HACCP- Auditor, from the Quality Society of Australia: 2002
- Diploma in Health from National Health School: 1982.
- Degree in Veterinary Studies, from Cordoba University: 1978.
Professional experience (last) :
- Team leader of the projects: HMtool.org, HIAtool.org, HANC.org : current (from 2007)
- Head of Food Protection Department, Balearic Islands: current (from 2007)
- Coordinator: “Food Pro-Fit”, Project in the field of P. Health (DGSANCO): 2007-2010.
- Food Safety Audits: Project Manager, “Libro Azul”, Balearic Islands: 2003-2005.
Nathalie Renaudin
Coordinator, Edenred
In addition to being the Vice-President for Institutional Relations of Edenred, Nathalie RENAUDIN has successively acted as a Project Manager (2002-2004), Business Developer (2004-2007) and European Affairs Delegate (2007-2009) for ACCOR Services. Nathalie Renaudin graduated in European legal and social studies, and, while preparing a Doctorate (PhD) in Occidental Societies, she was associate tutor at Paris VII University. She has been closely involved in designing and managing various European-oriented projects, including for the European Movement. Her ten-year work experience with Edenred has included not only assessments, research, surveys, analyses, design, and implementation, but also forging partnerships and alliances with governmental, non-governmental, and international organizations, as well as with the private sector.
Anna Bach
Scientific Coordinator, Mediterranean Diet Foundation (FDM)
Born in Spain in 1979. Chemist (University of Barcelona, 2002), Master in Public Health Nutrition (University of Glasgow, 2003), Ph.D. in Public Health Nutrition (University of Barcelona, Department of Public Health, 2007). Implicated in both promotion projects and research in food and health, most of them multidisciplinary, nationally and internationally (such as FOOD and RED projects). She has published several scientific articles in scientific impact journals and technical reports, edited several scientific monographs, and written the nutritional content of some books. Usually involved in giving talks, conferences and workshops, and has organized more than four international conferences and several scientific sessions. Member of expert panel PASS (Catalan Food and Physical Activity Promotion Plan from the Public Health Department of the Catalan Government), Director of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation Research Group “ Catalan Centre of Nutrition at the Catalan Studies Institute”. Professor of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and scientific colaboration with other scientific centers (Oporto University (Dra. Maria Daniel Vaz da Almeida), Seattle Pacific University (Dra. Daniela Geleva) and Catalan Institute of Oncology (Dra. Genevieve Buckland). The current research lines are the following: research in the Mediterranean Diet and health association (related to chronic diseases such as obesity and cancer), monitoring of the Mediterranean Diet Pattern adherence worldwide through dietary pattern indexes, consensus on the new Mediterranean Diet pyramid, and research on the improvement of the food offer and demand in the worksite context.
Logistics
When
Tuesday 31 May, 2011
10.00 to 16.30
CEST
Where
The European Parliament
Rue Wiertz 60
B- 1047 Brussels
Belgium
Downloads
Food Project Conference Report 2011
