Sustainable Food Laboratory

Executive Champions

Vindi Banga, Food President, (alt: Ian Midgley, Chief Supply Chain Officer), Unilever, Netherlands

Lawrence Benjamin, President and CEO, US Foodservice, USA

Pierre Calame, President, Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation, France

Wout Dekker, CEO and Chairman, Nutreco, Netherlands

Richard Foster, Vice-President, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, USA

Kurt Hoffman (alt: Sharna Jarvis), President, Shell Foundation, UK

Bart Jan Krouwel, Managing Director, Sustainability and Social Innovation, Rabobank, Netherlands

John Machuzick, Senior Vice President, General Mills, USA

Joost Martens, Regional Director, Mexico and Caribbean, Oxfam, GB

Steven McCormick (alt: Anthony Cavalieri), President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy, USA

Luiz Gonzaga Murat, Jr. (alt: Walter Fontana, Gilberto Tomzaoni), Chief Financial Officer, Sadia, Brazil

Eugenio Peixoto, Secretary of Agrarian Reorganization, Ministry of Agrarian Development, Brazil

Gerrit Rauws, Director, King Baudouin Foundation, Belgium

Mark Ritchie, President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, USA

Bob Dunn (alt: David Winder), President, The Synergos Institute, USA

Richard Schnieders, CEO, SYSCO, USA

Paul Trân Van Thinh, Former Ambassador of the European Union to the World Trade Organization

Roland Vaxelaire (alt: Thierry Legault), Director of Quality and Sustainable Development, Carrefour, France

Business Members

Adeco Agropecuaria, South America, López Moriena Alejandro, Alan Boyce

Adina World Beat Beverages, United States, Greg Steltenpohl

Ahold, The Netherlands, Casper van Zijl, Head of Sustainability

Aramark, United States, Donald Buccelli, Vice President, Supply Chain Operations

Carrefour, France, Gilles Gaebel, Fresh Food Development

CH Robinson, United States, Jon Grubb, Director of Procurement

Commercializadora Aj Ticonel, Guatemala, Alberto Monterroso Morales, President

Costco Wholesale Corporation, United States, Sheri Flies, Corporate Counsel

Del Cabo Foods, United States, Larry and Sharon Jacobs

Fjord Seafood Europe, Belgium, Bertil Buysee, Operations Director

ForesTrade, United States, Sylvia Blanchet, co-founder, Thomas Fricke, co-founder

General Mills, United States, Eugene Kahn, Vice-President for Sustainability

GreenMountain Coffee Roasters, United States, Michael Dupee, Vice-President, Corporate Social Responsibility

HJ Heinz, United States, Jeff Fisher, Vice-President

Jasper Wyman, United States, Ed Flanagan, President and CEO

Laura’s Lean Beef, United States, Laura Freeman, President and CEO

Medley Global Advisors, United States, John Goldstein, Senior Managing Director

Nutreco, the Netherlands, Frank van Ooijen, Public Affairs and Corporate Communications Director

OPTEM, France, Daniel Debomy, Managing Director

Organic Valley Cooperative, United States, George Seimon, CEO, Theresa Marquez, Marketing Director

Rabobank International, United States, Charles Hallock, Managing Director, Industry Specialist Grains and Oilseeds

Radlo Foods, David Radlo, CEO

Royal Greenland, Henrik Karup Jorgensen, Managing Director

Sadia, Brazil, Meire de Fatima Ferreira, Coordinator for Sustainability

Starbucks, United States, Aileen Carrell, Manager Green Coffee Sustainability and Operations, Dennis Macray, Sandra Taylor, Senior Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, Carlos Rodriquez, Agronomist, Costa Rica, Julie Williams, Corporate Social Responsibility

Sustainable Food Systems, United States,John Turenne, President, formerly, Yale/Aramark chef

SYSCO, United States, Craig Watson, Vice President, Quality Assurance and Agricultural Sustainability, Larry Pulliam, Senior Vice President

TechnoServe, Charity Hanif, USA

Unilever, the Netherlands, Jan Kees Vis, Sustainable Agriculture Manager

Unilever Foodsolutions North America, Norman Clubb, President and COO

US Foodservice a division of Ahold, United States, Kim Brown, Cindy Halberlin, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer

Non-Profit Members

AgroFrontera, Dominican Republic, Frederick Payton, Executive Director

AlimenTerra, United Kingdom, Clive Peckham, Director

Assocene - Associação de Orientação das Cooperativas do Nordeste, Brazil, Neyde Nóbrega Nery, Executive Director

Brazil Specialty Coffee Association and Brazilian Rural Society, Brazil, Marcelo Vieira, farmer and board member

Canadian Council of Professional Fish Harvesters, Pierre Verreault, Coordinator, HR Projects

Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia, Mark Lundy, Senior Research Fellow Rural Agroenterprise Development Project International

Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation, France, Pierre Vuarin, Program Director

Cultural Logic, United States, Joe Grady, Principal

The Ethical Certification and Labeling Space, Switzerland, Pierre Hauselmann, Director

In Natura, the Netherlands, Arie van den Brand, Director, former Member of Parliament

Institute of Research and Economic Development of Rural China, Du Zhixiong, Zhang Xiaoshan, Director Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

King Baudouin Foundation, Belgium, Johan Alleman, Program Officer

National Association of Small Boat Owners, Iceland, Arthur Bogason, Chairman

National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (Contag), Brazil, Manoel dos Santos, President

The Nature Conservancy, Brazil, João S. Campari, Director, Carlos Klink, Team Leader, Agriculture

OD Consulting, Brazil, Osler Desouzart, Consultant, formerly with Sadia

Oxfam, Carlos Vargas Gálvez, Market Access Coordinator, Central America Juan Cheaz Paleaz, Regional Policy Coordinator for Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean,the Dominican Republic

Rainforest Alliance, United States, Tensie Whelan, Executive Director

Sustainable Finance Ltd., Scotland, Mark Eckstein, Project Manager

Robin Hood Center, United States, Bill Shepard

Sociedade Rural Brasileira, Brazil, Pedro de Camargo Neto, Member

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, UK, Paul Winter, Trust Catering Manager

Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, United States, Peggy Sechrist, Texas farmer, President

Sustainable Communities Programme, Shell Foundation, United Kingdom, Sharna Jarvis, Programme Manager

West-African Association for the Development of Small-Scale Fishing Industries, West Africa, René Segbenou,

W. K. Kellogg Foundation, United States, Oran Hesterman, Program Director, Ali Webb, Communications Manager for Leadership, Food Systems and Rural Development Programming

World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers, Canada, Pedro Alfredo Avendaño Garcés, Executive Director

World Wildlife Fund, Center for Conservation Innovation, United States, Jason Clay, Vice President

Government, Academia and Individual Members

Daniel Bernier, Executive Assistant and Policy Adviser to Belinda Stronach, Member, Parliament of Canada

Peggy Barlett, Prof of Anthropology, Emory University

Jacques Botault, Mayor, Second District of Paris

Luiz Coirolo, Senior Specialist, World Bank, Brazil

Bruno Correard, Seafood consultant, France

Rosalinda Guillen, former farm worker and leader, farm worker movement, United States

Ron Kopicki, FAO Investment Centre

Panayotis Lebessis, Economic Analysis and Evaluation, DG Agriculture of the European Commission

Toni Liquori, Teachers College, Columbia University

Erik Mathijs, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Food Economics, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

Henk van Oosten, Staff Member, Innovation Network, Ministry of Agriculture, Netherlands

Elena Saraceno, Policy Advisor to the President, European Commission, Belgium

Bruce Tozer, Structured Commodity & Environmental Products, J.P. Morgan Chase, United Kingdom.

Jessica Wurwarg, Project Manager, NYC Department of Housing Preservation

Chen Yueguang, Chief Editor, Science and Technology in China