SPEAKER'S PROFILES
John Lupien
1999-present - Adjunct Associate Professor in the Nutrition Department, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
1998-present - Adjunct Professor of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts, USA.
2007-present – Guest Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
1990-November 1999 - Director of the FAO Food and Nutrition Division.
1986-1990 - Chief, Food Quality and Standards Service within the FAO Food and Nutrition Division, and Secretary, FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission
1970-1980 - FAO Nutrition Officer (1970-71) and Senior Nutrition Officer (1973 80) in Rome and as an FAO Project Manager in Zambia (1971-73)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
1980-1986 - Director, International Affairs Staff, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC
1960-1970 - FDA investigator in San Francisco, California (1960-64); Brownsville, Texas (1964-65); and as an FDA Compliance Officer in Washington, DC (1966-70)
Dr. Lupien carried out his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., USA, and holds a doctoral degree From Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand and a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Las Palmas, Spain. He has worked in nutrition, food quality and food safety since 1960.
In his FDA and FAO work Dr. Lupien was involved in extensive food and nutrition-related policy formulation work. He also carried out in-depth nutrition, food quality and food safety surveys and prepared and implemented nutrition-related projects in about 50 countries. As Director of the FAO Food and Nutrition Division he supervised 70 professionals and support staff, oversaw the technical organization of the December 1992 Rome Joint FAO/WHO International Conference on Nutrition, and coordinated FAO's overall nutrition programme. He has extensive experience in national and international food standards setting and implementation work, and has written and spoken extensively on these topics.
Dr. Lupien also chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Food Information Council from 2000-2008, has represented the International Union of Food Science and Technology in international meetings on food and agriculture, and is technical advisor to the International Association for the Development of Natural Gums, an association of cooperatives and producers in the 16 sub-Sahara African countries that produce acacia gum for use in the food industry in all countries.
