Dep. of Agricultural Economics , National Taiwan University

Dr. Witsanu Attavanich

Department of Economics,

Faculty of Economics,

Kasetsart University

Email：attavanich.witsanu@gmail.com; fecowna@ku.ac.th

Dr. Attavanich's recent research efforts have largely involved policy analysis (mainly in climate change, agriculture, land use, energy, transportation, and environment). He received an outstanding award for research & innovation in the field of social science and humanities from Kasetsart University in 2014.

Dr. Jean C. Buzby

Economic Research Service, USDA Email:JBUZBY@ers.usda.gov

Dr. Buzby's food safety research included estimating the costs of foodborne illness, analyzing the legal incentives for firms to produce safer food, and exploring international trade and food safety issues. Her food consumption research was primarily centered on using information gleaned from the Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System. She has also conducted research on food loss in the United States for over a decade.

Dr. Ching-Cheng Chang

Institute of Economics,

Academia Sinica;

Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University

Email: emily@econ.sinica.edu.tw

Dr. Ching-Cheng Chang directs the Socioeconomic Department of the APEC Research Center of Typhoon and Society. Her research interests include efficiency measurement, dynamic optimization, climate change impacts on labor, and trade policy and market structure of the international commodities market.

Mr. Jeff Chen (Chieh-Fu Chen)

Association of Foodbanks

Email: jeffchen@redcross.tw

Mr. Jeff Chen works in the non-profit organization―the Red Cross Society, Taichung City Branch since 2006. Mr. Chen established the first “supermarket-style” foodbank in Taichung in 2013. It becomes an example and be imitated by other cities and counties. Furthermore, he initiated the Association of Taiwan Foodbanks (ATF) in 2016. There are 46 foodbank members throughout Taiwan nowadays.

Dr. Jung-Hee Cho

Director, Fisheries Resources Research Department, Korea Maritime Institute, Republic of Korea Email: jcho5901@kmi.re.kr

Dr. Cho has previously worked with the OECD, WTO, and APEC on research into the changing structure of global fisheries and has served on various United Nations delegations. His research interests include global fisheries, international trade, and sustainable development.

Dr. Dang Kim Khoi

Centre for Agricultural Policy – Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agricultural Policy

Email：khoi.dang@cap.gov.vn

Dr. Dang has rich knowledge in international and development economics, environmental economics and governance as well as policy and institutional issues of agricultural and rural development in Vietnam and Laos. He is the author of research and policy reports on environment, climate change, international integration, trade liberalization and agricultural growth in developing country context.

Dr. Nathan Gray

University of Adelaide

Email : nathan.gray@adelaide.edu.au

Dr. Nathan Gray specializes in strategic international management and policy advice to governments, NGO’s and corporations in the Asia Pacific. He has a detailed and unique knowledge of emerging corporate and government opportunities in Asia, gained through extensive experience operating in Asian markets.

Dr. Don Gunasekera

Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics, Victoria University

Email：don.gunasekera@vu.edu.au

Dr. Gunasekera has had wide experience in the Australian Public Service working. He was the Chief Economist at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE).Don led ABARE’s climate change modelling work for the Garnaut Climate Change Review. He was a member of an independent working group for the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC).

Prof. Tony Shih-Hsun Hsu

Department of Agricultural Economics,

National Taiwan University

Email：m577tony@gmail.com

Dr. Tony Shih-Hsun Hsu was serving as Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). He is now member of Board of Directors, International Cooperation Development Fund (ICDF). His research interests include International Trade, Agricultural Development and Policy, Applied General Equilibrium Analysis, Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Dr. Deepananda Herath

Senior Economist Agri-food Industry Competitiveness Analysis, Research and Analysis Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Email:Deepananda.Herath@agr.gc.ca

Dr. Deepananda Herath has conducted research on consumer and product behavior in food and agricultural markets, as well as policy issues of regulations and market behavior in food safety and food for health. Dr. Herath received his PhD from the University of Guelph.

Prof. Doo-Bong Han

Department of Food and Resource Economics,

Korea University

Email：han7630@gmail.com

Doo Bong Han's research interests are focused on the international food policy, agribusiness and macro finance, and experimental and behavioral economics. Dr. Han has worked as Director of Center for Teaching and Learning at Korea University and served as a Chair of 1st Asian OCW conference.

Mr. Milan Iglendza

Sales & Marketing Manager,

Toppan USA Inc.

Email: milan.iglendza@toppan-usa.com

Mr. Milan Iglendza has spent a considerable amount of time selling to the North American and Latin American markets and with a proven track record in sales, always seek new challenges. He has worked extensively with converters and major CPG's successfully building strong relationships with them over the years.

Ms. Junko Katsumi

Director Waste Reduction Promotion Section, Environment Policy Bureau, City of Kyoto

Email: katce200@city.kyoto.lg.jp

The areas of Ms. Katsumi specialty are chemistry and environment. She has been working for Kyoto City more than 25 years. She is engaged in measures for waste reduction, such as conducting detailed composition surveys, totalizing the amount of waste, promoting the measures in our plan, "New Plan for Halving Waste Amount of Kyoto City", and so on.

Mr. Benjamin Lephilibert

LightBlue Environmental Consulting Email:contact@lightblueconsulting.com

Mr. Benjamin has developed one of the most comprehensive standard to date, integrating implementation of a food waste monitoring system, online tracking of data, capacity building and revision of SOPs at critical food waste generation points. He is as well an international guest speaker, guest lecturer, a judge for International Sustainability Awards.

Mr. Brian Lipinski

World Resources Institute
Email：BLipinski@wri.org

Mr. Lipinski as a co-author on the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard, the first globally accepted set of accounting and reporting principles for measuring and reporting on FLW. He was also the lead author on the paper "Reducing Food Loss and Waste," published by WRI in 2013. He has served as an advisor for numerous FLW-related studies, including serving on the advisory board for ReFED.

Ms. Rita Lin

Senior Director Purchasing & Logistics Department

McDonald’s Taiwan

Email: rita.lin@tw.mcd.com

During Rita Lin's years in McD system, Rita won 2006 McDonald’s Global President Award. On 2011, Rita leaded Taiwan protein supplier-K&K Foods to earn McDonald’s sustainable supply and treated as role model for wastewater management.

Prof. Tzong-Ru Lee

Marketing Department,

National Chung Hsing University, Chinese Taipei

Email：trlee@dragon.nchu.edu.tw

Dr. Lee has previously worked with the Communications of the IIMA, Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalization, and Int. J. of Electronic Customer Relationship Management to be an editor. His research interests include Supply Chain Management, Marketing, Electronic Commerce, Logistics Decision & Marketing, Market Research, Brand Management, Distribution Strategy and Competitive Strategy Department.

Dr. Miranda Mirosa

Department of Food Science, University of Otago

Email：miranda.mirosa@otago.ac.nz

Dr. Mirosa currently holds a NZ/China Postharvest Loss and Food Waste Research Fellowship, funded by the NZ Ministry for Primary Industries – a programme aiming to enhance business-research-government partnerships through commercially meaningful research, complement joint research programmes under the China-NZ Food Safety and Security Science Roadmap, and support the APEC Food Security.

Dr. James Morton

Professor, Department of Wine, Food, and Molecular Biosciences, Lincoln University, New Zealand Email: james.morton@lincoln.ac.nz

Dr. Morton specializes in biochemistry and cell biology, and animal models for human health. His research interests include the impact of processing conditions on meat quality, fish roe composition and quality, and a number of topics related to eye and cataract research.

Dr. Nie Feng-Ying

Division Director, Agricultural Information Institute,

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,

People’s Republic of China

Email: niefengying@caas.cn

Dr. Nie has lectured internationally on the issues of food security in China and Asia Pacific Region. Food security and information and communication technology development for rural livelihoods are among her research interests.

Ms. Staci Rijal

International Affairs Specialist,

NOAA Office of International Affairs, United States of America

Email: staci.rijal@noaa.gov

Ms. Rijal's geographic specialization covers South and Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America. She conducts policy research and advising across NOAA’s activities in fisheries, satellites, ocean services, and weather research. Ms. Rijal coordinates NOAA’s engagement in both APEC and ASEAN.

Ms. Kai Robertson

Lead Advisor Food Loss and Waste Protocol, World Resources Institute Email: robertson.kai@gmail.com

Kai Robertson works closely with companies and nonprofits to provide practical guidance on effective sustainability strategies, stakeholder engagement, and tailored insights on key issues. Kai has over 25 years of experience working with the food, beverage and agriculture sector.

Dr. Amelita Rodriguez Salvador

Supervising Science Research Specialist,
Socioeconomic and Policy Research Division, Department of Agriculture, Philmech, The Philippines
Email: amyrod@yahoo.com

Dr. Rodriguez Salvador's research division works on various agricultural and supply chain analyses including loss assessments of high value crops, postharvest systems development, and organizational management and rural development.

Mr. Kenta Suzuki

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Email：kenta_suzuki910@maff.go.jp

Mr. Kenta Suzuki is a specialist in restraining waste generation, promotion of NO-FOODLOSS Project, food bank activity and circular recycling. He received bachelor degrees in Bio-resources from Tsukuba University. He have been participated in rice paddy farming policy at regional office, GIAHS (Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems by FAO) policy and basic plan for food in agriculture and rural areas.

Ms. Po-Lee Sham

Coordinator for the Homemakers United Foundation
email:

Polly Sham currently works as a Coordinator for the Homemakers United Foundation (HUF). HUF is a NGO mainly focus on united women for improving environment. She launched Cherish Program for 3 years which raising public and children awareness of food waste problem and monitor public sector policies in the Chinese Taipei. She acquired her Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology from the Fu Jen Catholic University.

Dr. Toine Timmermans

Wageningen University & Research Email：toine.timmermans@wur.nl

Dr.Toine Timmermans is a Coordinator of the EU projects FUSIONS and REFRESH. The overall aim of the project REFRESH is to contribute to SDG 12.3, halving food loss and food waste across the post-harvest supply chain. Dr. Timmermans is a coordinator of the FLW reduction project within the CGIAR program CCAFS with a focus on in developing and emerging countries in Sub Sahara Africa.

Dr. Maximo Torero

World Bank

Email：mtorero@worldbank.org

Dr. Maximo Torero's major research work lies mostly in analyzing poverty, inequality, importance of geography and assets (private or public) in explaining poverty, and in policies oriented towards poverty alleviation based on the role played by infrastructure, institutions, and on how technological breakthroughs (or discontinuities) can improve the welfare of households and small farmers.

Dr. Monika Verma

International Policy Department,
LEI Wageningen University
Email：monika.verma@wur.nl

Dr. Verma is a researcher with International Policy division at LEI, Wageningen University since 2014. She earned her PhD in applied economics from Purdue University in 2010, and spent 4 years as postdoctoral researcher at Purdue and Stanford Universities. She is and has been involved in interdisciplinary projects focusing on broad topics of food and income security, climate change and mitigation.

Mr. Winson Wu

Taiwan Carrefour Cultural and Educational Foundation

Email: winson_wu@carrefour.com

Mr. Winson Wu leads Taiwan Carrefour Foundation to launch the “Carrefour food project”, which laid the foundation of the Association of Taiwan Foodbanks (ATF) establishment, start the daily un-sold food donation to NGOs. On top of that, he continues to help the social enterprises to develop the anti-waste product and small farmer on friendly agriculture.

Dr. Sarun Wattanutchariya

Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,

Faculty of Economics,

Kasetsart University, Thailand

Email: sarun_wat@hotmail.com

Dr. Wattanutchariya has published numerous articles on the economics of aquaculture and fishery production in multiple geographies and has also conducted research analyzing the economics of grain production. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University.

Ms. Cindy Yin (Sze-Lai Yin)

GS1 Hong Kong
Email：CindyYin@gs1hk.org

Ms. Cindy Yin is expertise in food industry for more than 10 years, specialized in promoting traceability practices and platform to enhance product safety and consumer trust through technology innovation. Furthermore, Ms. Yin is steering the Hong Kong ECR and organizes annual food forum event which brings together government officials, food professionals and industry stakeholders for knowledge exchange.

Ms. Zhang Yi

State Administration of Grain

Email：Zhangyi6267@126.com; fad@chinagrain.gov.cn

Ms. Zhang is a senior staff member of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the State Administration of Grain, China since 2013. She received master's degree in English Translation from University of International Business and Economics and received bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Engineering from China Jiliang University.

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