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Speakers
Welcome and Opening Speakers

Interim Associate Vice President (Innovation and Technology Development), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Convener, Food Safety Consortium [IAFP Hong Kong Affiliate]
Chairman, Organizing Committee of APFSIC 2021
Founding Chairman, DISH Global Centre for Food Safety and Quality

Chairman, Advisory Council on Food and Environmental Hygiene,
Food and Health Bureau, The Government of HKSAR
Honorary President, Hong Kong Food Safety Association

President, International Association for Food Protection (IAFP)
Principal Adviser (Strategic Science and Risk Assessment), New Zealand Food Safety,
New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries
Plenary Keynote Speakers

Senior Research Professor and Chief Adviser
China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment

Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response
U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Secretary, FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission
Controller, Centre for Food Safety
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Regional Representative
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
Regional Representation for Asia and the Pacific

Regional Veterinary Officer
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
Regional Representation for Asia and the Pacific
Distinguished Speakers, Panelists and Moderators

Technical Key Account Manager Vietnam
GLOBALG.A.P.
Assistant Professor
Nitte University Centre for Science Education & Research

Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
National University of Singapore

ABAC Principal Advisor to APEC Policy Partnership on Science Technology and Innovation (PPSTI)

Managing Director, GLOBALG.A.P.

Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing
Department of Computing, PolyU

Research Microbiologist
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Full Professor Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Head of Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Agrofood Research
University of Bologna

Senior Project Fellow
Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology
PolyU

Professor and Director, Institute of Food Safety and Health
National Taiwan University

Staff Product Manager, AI Center,
DAMO Academy, Alibaba

Associate Researcher, Division of Risk Communication,
China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA)

Research Microbiologist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Vice President
Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine (CAIQ)

Principal Researcher Officer, Food Safety Department,
Teagasc Food Research Centre

Professor of Food Safety
Founder, Institute for Global Food Security, Queens University Belfast

Adjunct Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Guelph
Past President, IAFP

Assistant Professor, The Citadel and Michigan State University’s Food Fraud Initiative

Research Chemical Engineer
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Senior R&D Scientist
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Global Food Safety and Quality Officer
Kerry Group

Professor of Division for Global Surveillance
Head of Research Group for Global Capacity Building
National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark

Senior Technical Manager
Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited

Senior Director
Global Food Safety Risk Management
Global Supply Chain, McDonald’s Corporation

Assistant Director, Innovation and Technology Development Office
PolyU

Vice President Food Safety, Regulatory and Social Compliance
Driscoll’s of the Americas

Associate professor, Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition
Lund University
Chairman, DISH Global Centre for Food Safety and Quality

Director, Global Food Safety
Restaurant Brands International

Director of Quality Assurance
McDonald’s Corporation

Professor of Food and Agricultural Process Engineering, Research Faculty of Agriculture
Hokkaido University

Senior Manager
Innovation and Technology Development Office, PolyU
Food Safety Consortium
DISH Global Centre for Food Safety and Quality

Solutions Architect, Cloud Platform, Oracle HK/TW

J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

Director, Center for Processing Innovation
Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition
Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH)
Illinois Institute of Technology, Moffett Campus

Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, PolyU

Senior Manager for Global Food Safety and Microbiology, Rich Product

Chief scientist and professor of the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety,
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Co-Leader, Animal and Human Health Program
Flagship Leader Food Safety, A4NH
International Livestock Research Institute

Vice President – Quality, Health, Safety & Environment APMEA,
Kerry Group

Head of Food Safety,
Produce Marketing Association Australia-New Zealand Limited (PMA A-NZ)

Regulatory Director - Vice President
Demos Global Group, Inc.

Senior Scientist
Nofima
Director of Environmental, Social and Governance
Wynn Macau | Wynn Palace

Chair of the Research Office and Group Leader of the Food Processing Group
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Principal
Ruth Petran Consulting, LLC

Independent Senior Advisor to Industry Leaders,
Former Danone Corporate General Manager
GFSI Chairman

Professor, Food Authenticity,
Wageningen University and Research

Risk Communication and Trust Consultant
Food Industry Asia

Consultant, Schlundt Consult
Former Director, WHO Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses

Distinguished Professor, Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University
Director, National Center for Food Safety Education and Research, National Taiwan University
Director, Center for Food and Biomolecules, National Taiwan University
President, International Association for Traditional and Complementary Medicine (IATCM)
Founding and Honorary President, Taiwan Association for Traditional and Complementary Medicine (TATCM)
Founding and Honorary President, Taiwan Association for Food Protection (TAFP)

VP Technical Services
Merieux NutriSciences

QA & HSE Director MENA
Del Monte Foods (U.A.E) FZE

Senior Manager
GS1 Hong Kong Limited

Corporate Scientist, Global QSR and Food Retail
Leader of microbiology, food safety and public Health
Ecolab

Vice President of Mars Advanced Research Institute

Co-founder
Culture Excellence

Executive Director
International Association for Food Protection

APAC and Global Sales & Marketing Director
BRCGS

Professor Emeritus of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Fellow - AAM, IFT, IAFP
Principal and Managing member of PCV & Associates, LLC

Associate Director - Institute for Food Safety and Health
Associate Chair – Department of Food Science and Nutrition
Illinois Institute of Technology

Professor of Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University
Director of Hong Kong Organic Resource Centre

Chief Executive Officer
Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM)

Chairman of Steering Committee, Food Safety Consortium
Former Deputy President and Provost
Chair Professor of Optical Communications, PolyU
President and Vice-Chancellor designate, Hong Kong Baptist University

Assistant Professor
School of Hotel and Tourism Management, PolyU

Newton International Fellow, The Institute for Global Food Security,
Queen’s University Belfast

Executive Director, Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, PolyU

Sr. Director – Data Science & Analytics
Global R&D, PepsiCo

Senior Veterinary Officer (Animal Health)
Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department
The Government of the Hong Kong SAR

Chief Scientist, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment

Director Food & Beverage, Digital Assurance and Supply Chain Services
DNV GL - Business Assurance, North America

Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology
Korea National University of Transportation

Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Marie Bashir Institute, University of Sydney and University of Glasgow