AusFoodTech Symposium 2012 to feature Dr Andrew Powell

Dr Powell’s address, titled “Food Security in APEC: Not Just About Production”, will draw on his experience with Asia BioBusiness, where he recently completed a study of food security policy in APEC member economies. He has worked as a consultant since 1994 and founded Asia BioBusiness in 2005 with Professor Paul Teng.

The event will bring together global and local food technology experts to address the key commercial issues and demands affecting today’s functional foods and nutraceuticals industries.

Asia BioBusiness has assisted a wide range of clients from both the public (CIDA, Enterprise Ireland, GTZ, CropLife Asia, USDA, US State Department, APEC, UNEP, Inter American Development Bank, and agriculture ministries of Vietnam, Malaysia, Chile, Canada) and the private sector in their activities across East Asia, Australia, and Central and Latin America. Dr Powell is on the Advisory Committee of The Scientific American/BioIndustry Organisation Worldview Publication and the Advisory Board for the Syngenta Rice Bowl Index.

Dr Andrew Powell has been living and working in Asia for the last 24 years, first in Japan in the late eighties and since then in Singapore. He has held research and academic positions at the University of Guelph, Canada, the Food Division of the National Institute for Health Sciences in Tokyo, and Tsukuba, Japan and the National University of Singapore.

Andrew has considerable experience in stakeholder dialogues, facilitations and public fora across the region and in Australia, and is invited regularly to chair conference sessions at global technology conferences. Over the last seven years he has been active in the area of Risk Communication, conducting training and offering advice to both public and private sector clients.

Asia BioBusiness is also establishing a network of Risk Communications Centres in Melbourne, Santiago and Singapore. and is currently working with Tate and Lyle on their Open Innovation initiatives in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Delegates at AusBiotech 2012 will gain free entry to AusFoodTech where they have the opportunity to network with professionals from the food industry and gain the opportunity to build industry–research links. For more information on AusFoodTech program click here and for registration, click here.