Datuk Dr. Kalyana Sundram is currently Chief Executive Officer, Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC). Following his postgraduate studies from University of London, and research stints in USA, Australia, Netherlands and at MPOB, he has clocked 39 years in palm oil research and industry. These include various aspects of oils and fats process technologies, nutrition, biomedical applications and technical marketing. He is a fellow of the Malaysian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Nutrition Society and member of several international professional associations.

Datuk Dr. Sundram is primarily acknowledged for his work on palm oil and has served on international expert consultations and committees at FAO/WHO, IUNS and MPOB. He publishes extensively and holds 24 patents. He has coordinated more than 200 research and promotion projects on palm oil including health, sustainability and wildlife conservation. Currently he heads MPOC with focus on palm oil promotion and marketing, addressing the anti-palm oil campaigns and uses science based outputs to communicate on palm oil

Datuk Ravi Muthayah is presently the Secretary General of Ministry of Plantation Industries & Commodities, Malaysia. He holds a Master’s in Business Administration from University of Kobe. A career government serviceman, Datuk Ravi Muthayah began his service in 1989, and has served in various capacities in Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Domestic Trade & Consumer Affairs, and Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department. He joined the Ministry of Plantation Industries & Commodities in 2018 as Deputy Secretary General and has served as its Secretary General since December 2019.

Dato’ Lee Yeow Chor is presently the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive of IOI Corporation Berhad, the second most valuable palm oil company listed on Bursa Malaysia. He has been on the Board of Directors of IOI Corporation Berhad and IOI Properties Berhad since 1996, and a Board Director of IOI Properties Group Berhad since 2013.

IOI Corporation Berhad is an integrated palm oil company with operations in eight countries across four continents, while IOI Properties Group Berhad is a regional property development and investment company with substantial presence in Malaysia, Singapore and China.

Dato’ Lee is a barrister from Gray’s Inn, London and holds a LLB (Honours) from Kings College London in 1988 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Finance and Accounting from London School of Economics in 1990. Prior to joining IOI Group in 1994, he served in various capacities in the Malaysian Attorney General’s Chambers and the Malaysian Judiciary service for about four years.

Dato’ Lee was elected Chairman of the Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA) in June 2020. Prior to that, he was the Chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) for 11 years from 2009 to 2020. Dato’ Lee was also appointed as a Board Member of Bank Negara Malaysia from 2015 to 2018. He was formerly a Board Member of the Malaysian Green Technology Corporation and the Secretary General of the Malaysian Real Estate Housing Developers Association (REDHA) from 2002 to 2006.

Dr Fry, LMC's Chairman, was educated at Oxford University, where he obtained an MA in Mathematics and a Doctorate in Economics. After teaching Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford University, in 1980 Dr Fry jointly founded LMC International, and is the company's Chairman. He continues to devote almost all his time to the company's research and consultancy activity and he is in overall charge of its work in commodity-based sectors.

LMC's headquarters are in Oxford, UK with offices in New York, Kuala Lumpur, Detroit, Shanghai, Bangkok and Frankfurt, with a partner office in São Paulo, Brazil 

Jeremy Goon is Executive Director of PPB Oil Palms Berhad and Head of Wilmar International’s Group Plantation Operations and its Chief Sustainability Officer. Jeremy is also Director and General Manager of the FFM Group of Companies, which operates Flour and Feed Milling operations, Food Processing, Bakeries, Livestock Farming and Consumer Products. Jeremy has management experience in edible oils processing operations, trading, brand management, marketing and sustainability and has held several senior positions in the Kuok Group of Companies since 2002. He serves on the boards of several local and overseas entities amongst them, PT Gunung Madu Plantations (Indonesia) and Palmci (Group SIFCA, Ivory Coast). Jeremy has and also continues to serve in various capacities in organisations such as the Malaysian Palm Oil Association, Malaysian Palm Oil Council and Tropical Forest Alliance 2020.

Thomas Mielke is Executive Director of ISTA Mielke GmbH in Hamburg (Germany), OIL WORLD, a leading research organization that provides global supply, demand and price analyses, statistics and forecasts for all the major oilseeds, vegetable oils & animal fats and oilmeals as well as for biodiesel and livestock products with clients in 100 countries. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops all over the world. Thomas Mielke joined the OIL WORLD team in the mid-1970s, after studying economics. He is a member of the Programme Advisory Committee of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board and is giving lectures at the University of Hamburg (TUHH). In 2014 Thomas Mielke received a Lifetime Excellence Award of the Malaysian industry in recognition of his contributions and commitments. OIL WORLD was founded in 1958 and is recognized worldwide as a leading independent, authoritative and unbiased information provider. The WEEKLY and daily FLASH reports can be obtained from www.oilworld.de and also an OIL WORLD report in Mandarin is released 2 times a week.

Ms. Emily French is an experienced trader, analyst, broker and presently the founder & managing director of ConsiliAgra. Ms. French started her professional career with Cargill in 1996. Following Cargill, she worked for the U.S. Grains Council and World Perspectives in Washington, DC. She shifted to investment banking and OTC markets with National Australia Bank and Macquarie Bank. In early 2009, Emily left Macquarie to form ConsiliAgra – a strategy group covering the world agricultural commodity markets, specializing in grain and oilseeds. Clients include flour mills, feed mills, crush plants and both spec and physical traders. Ms. French can be reached: efrench@consiliagra.com

Atul Chaturvedi is a veteran in the Vegetable Oil/ Oil seeds and Agro Business of the Country.  He has more than four decades of successful and varied general and strategic management experience in the field of Manufacturing, Trading and Agri Infrastructure Development. He has been associated with Adani Group since 1998 and has played a key role in the development of the Agro and Agri Infrastructure business of the Group. He is currently Executive Chairman Of Renuka Sugars Ltd as well as Director Of Adani Wilmar .These Companies where he is associated are market leaders in their category and have done pioneering work. A widely travelled International Trader, he has hands on experience in handling Agro Products, Vegetable Oils, Grains, Sugar, Ethanol Distilleries, Oilseeds, Apples, Agri Infrastructure etc. both within and outside India. 

Mr. Chaturvedi has received many awards/recognitions over the years, like Best Analyst award from ZEE, Agri leadership award etc. He was declared as “Globoil Man of the Year-2013” for his contribution to Vegetable Oil Industry.

Mr. Chaturvedi is associated with various Organisations and Trade Bodies. Currently he is President of Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEA) a leading trade body of Vegetable Oil Industry. He has been Dy. Chairman of SOPA. He is also associated with CII and headed the Task Force on Edible Oil and Oilseeds. 

Mr. Chaturvedi is a familiar face on Business channels as an expert. An eminent Speaker his views are widely respected by Trade and Industry.

Chris works in the Financial Advisory practice in Southeast Asia specializing in Corporate Strategy & M&A. He brings 25 years of experience in growth strategies, M&A, turnaround and operational excellence, focused on providing advisory services to Corporates, Financial Institutions and Governments. and has been in Southeast Asia for over 18 years.. 

His particular area of focus covers the Agricultural sector and its associated value chain, and has conducted over 50 engagements in the palm oil sector covering upstream cost optimization, refining optimization, trading, biodiesel, fatty alcohols, fatty acids, fatty esters, speciality fats and oils and soap noodles.

Anupam Singh is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in designing, building and delivering innovative solutions and services. Anupam co-founded 113 Industries in 2010 to help Fortune 500 companies develop and market breakthrough products and solutions. 113 Industries combines Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing technologies to provide Data Driven Insights on consumers at a scale of millions of consumers. Many of the leading companies including Hershey, Clorox, Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, P&G and SC Johnson have used this platform.

Anupam's career spans working at technology giants including IBM, Lockheed, and HP, as well as multiple successful startups including FORE Systems, FreeMarkets and Landslide.

Anupam also guest lectures on NLP, Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In his spare time, Anupam enjoys sports (especially cricket and tennis), travel, sketching and music.

Jenna is a strategic thought professional who has provided her expertise as lead consultant on more than 50 projects during her time with 113 Industries—where her client partners have ranged from executives at Fortune 500 companies to healthcare providers to advertising agencies. She heads the company’s Insights team and is constantly on the hunt for new technologies to better serve clients.

Her past experience in inventory management and visual merchandising grounds her in each project with the objective of understanding consumer buying behavior from an in- store and online perspective. In all that she does professionally, Jenna is motivated by representing the voice of the consumer through thoughtful and meaningful data collection.

Mr Abdul Rasheed Janmohammed is Chairman of Pakistan Edible Oil Refiners Association (PEORA). He is also the Chairman of Pakistan Shippers' Council of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI).

He is the Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan Edible Oil Conference (PEOC), Mapak Edible Oils (Pvt.) Limited (Edible Oil Refinery+Solvent Plant), FWQ Enterprises (Pvt) Limited (Edible Oil Jetty + Edible Oil Storage Terminal), Mapak Qasim Bulkers (Pvt.) Limited (Edible Oil Terminal) (Joint Venture Projects between Pakistan & Malaysia-Port Qasim). He is also the Director of Dalda Foods (Pvt) Limited, Bulk Management (Pakistan) Pvt. Limited, Westbury (Private) Limited, Trading Enterprises (Pvt.) Limited, Shakoo (Private) Limited F&B Bulk Storage (Pvt.) Limited and Rotary Club, Karachi.

Mr. Janmohammed is member of managing committee of some organization such as Karachi Health Association (Kharadar General Hospital), Executive Committee of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI), Member Executive Committee of All Pakistan Solvent Extractors' Association (APSEA), Executive Committee of Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) an active member of Rotary Club, Karachi as well.

Mr. Rasheed Janmohammed is in the Edible Oil business since 1980 and actively participate in all the leading Edible Oil Conference as a Speaker.

Long Tian Ching is a Co-founder and Director of Vance Bioenergy Sdn. Bhd. (www.vancebioenergy.com). Established in 2005, Vance Bioenergy is a leading ISO 9001-certified producer of palm biodiesel, pharmaceutical-grade refined glycerine, tocotrienols and other palm-based oleochemicals for use in many industries. Mr Long is also the Deputy President of the Malaysian Biodiesel Association.

Prior to this, Mr Long was an investment banking Vice President at Lazard where he specialized in M&A and managed more than US$5 billion worth of completed transactions across Asia. Mr Long has an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.  He also has two undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Finance and Computer Science and Engineering. Mr Long is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

A prominent speaker at various national and international forum on Commodities & Risk Management. Thematic paper published or presented that specialise "Looking beyond fundamentals for price direction”.

An invited Member on:

- Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA of India) Imported Vegetable Oil Processors Council

- Indian Vegetable Oil Producers’ Association (IVPA) Steering Committee.

Education - A Commerce Graduate with Masters in Management Studies (MBA with Specialization in Finance: Rank Holder in Economics) from Mumbai University (India) and Diploma holder in Supply Chain Management - from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Dorab Mistry was born in India in 1953 and graduated from Bombay University in Commerce in 1973. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1976, having won the President's Gold Medal.

He started his career at GODREJ, one of India's leading industrial groups, in 1976. Since 1977 Dorab was based in London handling the vegetable oil buying and trading portfolio for GODREJ. The company's wide ranging interests in vegetable oil processing, animal feeds, oleo chemicals, alcohols, soaps, toiletries, foods and plantations gave him a unique perspective of the world vegetable oil scenario.

Since 1996, Dorab has been a regular speaker on vegetable oil Price Outlook and is regarded as a leading analyst of price behaviour. He also writes and speaks regularly on the Indian economic scene. Dorab has served as India''s representative on the managing committee of the International Association of Seed Crushers and was its Vice President from 2006 to 2008.

In June 2013, Dorab Mistry was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours List. From April 2015, Dorab has re-located to Singapore.

Mr. U.R. Unnithan is the Co-Founder and CEO of DIBIZ PTE LTD - a Blockchain powered connected digital supply chain platform and the Founder and CEO of SUMWIN Group - a technology company specialized in value added food, feed, oleo-chemicals, neutraceuticals and renewable energy. He has 36 years of professional experience in the field of Oils and Fats, Oleo-chemicals and Biofuels and is currently the President of the Malaysian Biodiesel Association, where he has been actively involved in the implementation Of the Biodiesel program in Malaysia since 2001.

He holds a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in India. U.R. Unnithan is also a Gold Medal Winner at the APEX MBA program from the National University of Singapore and a graduate of the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School.

Mr Togar Sitanggang is the Vice Chairman of Indonesian Palm Oil Association / GAPKI Since April 2018, Previously He served as Secretary General from April 2015 to April 2018. Currently, Mr Sitanggang works for PT Musim Mas as General Manager base in Jakarta. He has been in palm oil industries for more than 20 years with national and multinational companies including PT SMART Tbk, Cargill, Bunge, ED & F Man, Darmex in many positions ranging from research, logistics, trading and now corporate affairs. Mr Sitanggang is also active in palm oil related associations in Indonesia such as APROBI (Association of Biofuels Producers Indonesia), APOLIN (Association of Oleochemicals Manufacturer) and DMSI (Dewan Minyak Sawit Indonesia – Indonesia Palm Oil Board). Mr. Togar Sitanggang, was born in North Sumatera in 1966, graduated from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, in Computer Science degree and obtained his Master Degree from North Sumatra University in Medan.

Jose Atilio Canas earned his medical degree from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in the Dominican Republic. He completed his pediatrics residency and served as chief resident at Nassau County Medical Center. There he also completed a clinical and research fellowship in pediatric endocrinology and metabolism. He is currently an Attending Physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St Petersburg, FL. His interests include the prevention and treatment of Metabolic Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in children. His research focuses on the effects of mixed carotenoid supplementation on abdominal fat accrual and insulin resistance. He has successfully completed two placebo-controlled clinical trials on the subject which have produced several publications. His contributions include 47 peer reviewed articles published in national and international journals such as The Journal of Pediatrics and The Journal of Nutrition.

Peter Pressman received his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School and completed residency and fellowship in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin and Rush- Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center.  He holds master’s degrees in applied social sciences and clinical psychology from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, respectively.  He has been an Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Residency program at the University of Southern California and while there served as Director of Educational Programs for the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics. Pressman has served as a Naval Medical Officer, and currently writes and consults on public health and nutrition issues for the Daedalus Foundation and for Polyscience Consulting.

Dr. Clemens is part-time faculty within USC’s School of Pharmacy where he enjoys adjunct appointments as Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Assistant Professor of Regulatory and Quality Sciences. For nearly 20 years, he has been responsible for courses in food and drug toxicology, food science, regulations of foods and dietary supplements. He developed and instructed graduate global nutrition courses within the USC School of Medicine. He served as Scientific Advisor for Nestlé USA for several decades prior to being recruited to join the faculty at USC. He is a past president of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and is the current presiding officer (aka President) of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology. He co- founded, established and contributes to a Food, Medicine and Health column published monthly in Food Technology for the past 15 years. He continues to serve on several editorial boards (e.g., Food Chemical Toxicology, Journal of Food Science, Toxicology Research and Applications, Journal of Dietary Supplements) and continues to serve as a reviewer for many high-impact journals. Dr. Clemens has published > 50 original manuscripts and commentaries. In addition, he has presented more than 250 invited lectures at domestic and international scientific conferences. He is an elected Fellow in four scientific organizations, including ASN where he served in several critical positions. Dr. Clemens’ experience in the global nutrition arena spans more than 40 years that include countries such as South Korea, Argentina, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya. One of his current projects is directed to developing modular hospitals in Libya with electronic diagnostics linked to medical and nutrition support teams in the United States. Dr. Clemens served on the 2010 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

Dr. Shawn Talbott integrates physiology, biochemistry, and psychology to help people improve mental and physical performance. He received Bachelor’s degrees in Sports Medicine and Fitness Management from Marietta College, Master’s degrees in Exercise Science from UMASS and Entrepreneurship from MIT, and his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from Rutgers. Recent projects include two academic textbooks, an award-winning documentary film, and several best-selling books translated into multiple languages. His work has been featured on The Dr. Oz Show, the TED stage, and the White House - and has developed numerous top-selling nutraceutical products, generating over $1 billion in global sales.

Dr. Chandan K. Sen is a J. Stanley Battersby Chair and Professor of Surgery, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Indiana Center for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering (ICRME). At IU, he serves as Associate Vice President of Research. At the IU School of Medicine, he serves as Associate Dean of Research. At Indiana University Health, Dr. Sen is the Executive Director of the Comprehensive Wound Center. Dr. Sen is recognized as a Lilly INCITE scholar. Dr. Sen is the Indiana PI for the six center NIH sponsored Diabetic Foot Consortium. After completing his Masters of Science in Human Physiology from the University of Calcutta, Dr. Sen received his PhD in Physiology from the University of Eastern Finland. Dr. Sen trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley's Molecular and Cell Biology department. His first faculty appointment was in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2000, Dr. Sen was tenured John H & Mildred C Lumley Professor of Surgery, Executive Director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Wound Center and Director of the Ohio State University's Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Based Therapies. Dr. Sen's primary areas of research interest include tissue injury, repair, regeneration and infection. His group has pioneered the Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT) technology in regenerative medicine. TNT received the 2018 Edison Awards for Innovation. Dr. Sen's work has also led to electroceutical management of tissue infection. In 2016, this technology received the Frost & Sullivan award for new product innovation. Dr. Sen has published over 325 peer reviewed publications and a dozen books which are currently cited over 35000 times in the literature. He has a current H-index of 98.

David Diamond received his Ph.D. in Biology in 1985 from the University of California, Irvine. He was a career scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs for 30 years and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Cognitive, Neural and Social Science Division, at the University of South Florida. Dr. Diamond has been funded by the VA, NIH, DoD, NSF and pharmaceutical companies in his neuroscience research, with over 100 publications on the brain and memory. In the past decade, Dr. Diamond has expanded his research program to address controversial issues in obesity, cardiovascular disease and nutrition. In recognition of the importance of his work to global healthcare, he has been invited to present his research at numerous domestic and international nutrition, cardiology, obesity and diabetes meetings.

Prof. Dr. Tilakavati Karupaiah was formerly Professor and Head of the Dietetics Program, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She is Strategic Research Interests (SRI) Professor at the School of Biosciences, Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences, Taylor’s University. She is Adjunct Faculty at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA. Professionally she is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian (APD) with the Dietitians’ Association of Australia. Prof Karupaiah’s contributes towards legislation, clinical practice, education and research in the field of cardiovascular and renal nutrition in Malaysia. Her agenda is to address ‘doable’ issues related to prevention of non-communicable diseases such as generating ethnic-based dietary evidence on cardiometabolic risk and technical reports on government performance as well as food industry commitments towards population nutrition and a ‘healthy’ food environment. Prof. Karupaiah was the recipient of the United States National Kidney Foundation- Council on Renal Nutrition (CRN)’s Joel D Kopple International Award for 2017. She was the 1st Asian to win this award, for which beneficiaries have been nephrologists, dietitians or pharmacists. Prof. Karupaiah has extensive experience in conducting investigator-initiated clinical trials. She holds grants as a primary researcher funded by the Malaysian Government Agencies, the Canadian Government and industry covering national and international research grants. Research collaborations extend to University of Palma, Italy, Monash University, University of Sydney and University of Wollongong, Australia, University of Auckland, New Zealand and Wayne State University, USA.

Peter Van den Bossche is Director of Studies of the World Trade Institute (WTI) and Professor of International Economic Law at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Since 2018, he serves as President of the Society of International Economic Law. From 2009 to 2019, he was a Member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and served as chairman of the Appellate Body in 2015. He is an honorary professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands (since 2018), and a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (since 2018), at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy (since 2016), at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (since 2016), and at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (since 2010). Since 2020, he is Editor of the World Trade Review, Cambridge University Press. Van den Bossche is the author (with Werner Zdouc) of The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization, 4th edition (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 1077 p.; and (with SHAN Wenhua) of the Chinese edition of this book (Law Press – China, 2020), 1151 p. Van den Bossche is also the author (with Denise Prévost) of Essentials of WTO Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016), 302 p.

Pierre Lever heads the Argus Asia business and is based in Singapore. He is responsible for strategic, commercial and market activity and close to 200 staff across Singapore, Dubai, Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney. Pierre joined Argus in 2011 after management roles in other fast growth information providers. Pierre holds law degrees and an MBA from the IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Timothy Sulser is a senior scientist at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) working with the CGIAR Foresight group. His primary work focuses on quantitative foresight modeling of the global agricultural sector using the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT, https://www.ifpri.org/project/ifpri-impact-model). Timothy has worked in community development, agricultural extension, and farming systems modeling in Latin America. His work at IFPRI has covered a variety of agricultural and food policy issues, particularly on scenarios of climate change, technology advancement, biofuels, hunger and malnutrition, and natural resource use in South and East Asia and Africa South of the Sahara.

Vimal Shah is the Chairman of Bidco Africa, East Africa’s leading manufacturer of Edible Oils and Hygiene and Personal Care products, and most recently set foot in the Food and Beverages Sector – launching its Noodles, Juices and Carbonated Soft Drinks brands into the market, set in a world-class Industrial Park officially commissioned in 2019. Bidco has over 55 brands and a footprint in 18 African countries.

Bidco was founded in 1985 by Vimal Shah, his father Bhimji Depar Shah and his brother Tarun Shah. Under his leadership, Bidco has received numerous awards and accolades in the Energy Management, Business Leadership, ICT, Manufacturing and Sustainability categories. He led Bidco’s strategic growth and expansion which saw entry into Uganda, Tanzania and Madagascar with manufacturing units to serve the markets. Vimal holds a BSc. Business Administration from United States International University – Africa. He is a much sought-after speaker and mentor on Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Manufacturing and has given talks all over the world.

In his years of Leadership, Vimal has held many offices. He has sat in the 3 GF (Global Green Growth Fund) Advisory Board, former Chairman of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), former Chairman of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), and former Chairman of the East African Business Council (EABC) and chaired the Mkenya Daima Initiative which fosters peaceful coexistence for Economic Growth and Prosperity in Kenya. Vimal has received numerous awards including the First-Class Chief of the Order of the Burning Spear (CBS) in 2011 by former president Mwai Kibaki, which is the highest national honor.

Dr. Vimal has, most recently, been presented with the Fastest Growing Business of the Year award during the Jain Diaspora Business Achievement Awards in association with KPMG held in London. He won this for his sustained commitment to fostering a rapid culture of development in Agriculture, Floriculture, ICT and Outsourcing that helped Bidco see and explore the connection between Success and Performance. In 2016, Vimal Shah was installed as the Chancellor for Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology. Vimal is a firm believer of the huge economic potential and future of Africa. He is passionate about Entrepreneurship and the conviction that it is the pillar to move an economic Africa forward. He believes in inspiring the start-ups that makes him a mentor and supporter of multiple Founders’ initiatives.

He is one of the strongest drivers of the Vision of Bidco Africa; To Grab, Grow and Sustain the number one market share in African markets by 2030.

Assoc. Prof. Dr Pramod Khosla has been working on diet and lipoprotein metabolism for almost thirty years. After obtaining his BSc and Msc from Newcastle University in the UK and PhD from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, he did post-doctoral research at Brandeis University in the USA.

Dr. Khosla is the author of some eighty plus articles including original research, book chapters, reviews and commentaries. Over the last few years, Dr. Khosla’s laboratory has carried out studies in dialysis patients to look at the effects of various supplements (omega-3 fatty acids, tocotrienols) on markers of inflammation, oxidative stress and blood lipids. He is currently the lead investigator on a multi-centered clinical trial involving various dialysis units in Michigan (Henry Ford, Great Lakes Dialysis, Davita) as well as Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), evaluating the effects of tocotrienol supplementation on lipid, inflammatory and oxidative stress markers. He is also the lead investigator in a collaborative study looking at various aspects of diet on protein energy wasting (PEW) in dialysis patients. This work, in addition to UKM and UPM, involves collaborative centers in the Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and India.

Current research interest relate to the role of diet on lipoprotein metabolism in general and specifically in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients including those with end renal disease (ESRD) on maintenance hemodialysis. Also interested on the effects of PEW in CKD.

Dr Wei Ney Yap is now Section Head of KLK-Oleo Biological at Davos Life Science Pte Ltd. She holds a PhD in Pharmacology from National University of Singapore. She has more than 10 years’ research experience in tocotrienols (a palm oil derived natural vitamin E), specifically the benefits and mechanism of action of this active ingredient in human health and nutrition. She is currently leading a team to generate the scientific evidences span across preclinical studies including establishment of cell line and animal models for proof of concept studies; as well as clinical trials for efficacy investigation. Her research work has received educational fellowship award from the European Academy of Dermatology Venereology (EADV) in 2014. Moreover, the company she is working now has previously received 2017 finalist for the Nutraingredient Award for the Heart Health Category at VitaFood Europe, Geneva.

Mr. Paolo R. Vergano is a partner at FratiniVergano - European Lawyers in Brussels, Belgium and Singapore (www.fratinivergano.eu). His practice focuses on international trade law (WTO law, dispute settlement and trade negotiation in the areas of agriculture, services and non-tariff barriers such as sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade). Mr. Vergano has extensive experience in advising Governments and private parties on WTO matters and multilateral/regional/bilateral trade negotiations. He has actively participated in seven separate WTO dispute settlement proceedings and in countless EU proceedings (anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, duty suspension applications, TRQ establishment, etc.).

Since 2007, he is legal advisor to the ASEAN Secretariat and has worked in countless projects advising ASEAN in general and individual ASEAN Member States on issues of regional economic integration, regulatory transparency, streamlining of non-tariff measures (NTMs), removal of non-tariff barriers (NTBs), dispute settlement, trade negotiations, legal drafting, private sector engagement, and trade facilitation. Since 2012, he has been advising the palm oil industry with respect to issues of market access to the EU, both in relation to the food and biofuel applications of palm oil.

Prior to co-founding FratiniVergano in 2007, he worked in the international trade departments of law firms in both Washington, DC and Brussels, Belgium and with the External Economic Relations (REX) Committee of the European Parliament. Mr. Vergano is admitted in Belgium and is a member of the Brussels’ bar (A list) and of the IPBA, of which he is a former Chair of the International Trade Committee.

Mr. Vergano is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Torino, Italy (1995), received a Diplôme Supérieur de Droit Comparé at the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé in Strasbourg, France (1996) and holds a Master’s degree in International Business and Trade Law from the University of Fordham School of Law in New York, United States (1997). He teaches international trade law at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland since 2002, and international trade and food law at the LUISS University in Rome, Italy since 2017, and is a frequent lecturer and author on issues of WTO, EU and ASEAN law.

Since 2009, he is the Editor of FratiniVergano’s fortnightly publication Trade Perspectives©, (http://www.fratinivergano.eu/en/trade-perspectives/), regularly providing readers with a set of recent international trade developments of particular commercial and regulatory interest. Since 2011, Mr. Vergano is also on the Editorial Board of the Global Trade and Customs Journal.

Teoh Cheng Hai is the Senior Advisor to Solidaridad Network Asia and a consultant to the International Finance Corporation on oil palm smallholder development in Indonesia. He was the founding Secretary-General of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2004/2005. He was Honorary Advisor, Plantation Agriculture for WWF Malaysia (2001-2004) and laid the foundation for the formation of the RSPO. During 2010/2011, he co-facilitated the development of the World Bank Group strategy for re-engagement of the palm oil sector. He is the International Specialist (Oil Palm) for the CFNA- DFID InFIT project on promotion of sustainable palm oil in China.

She has a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, a PhD in Pharmacology and a PhD in Toxicology. For 15 years, she was a Research Fellow at the Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan. Since 2004, she has been working for the Nutrition Foundation of Italy as Research Director, where she is in charge of NFI organization and coordination of research projects and scientific communication. Her research interests, as demonstrated by more than 70 publications in International peer reviewed journals, include the correlation between lipid and fatty acid metabolism and diet and lifestyle.

Dr. Ju-Yen Fu graduated as a pharmacist from the University of Strathclyde, UK and pursued a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences under a scholarship from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board. She has been serving MPOB as a research officer in the Nutrition Unit, addressing industrial and research needs for palm-based downstream products, specifically in the food and nutraceutical area. Her experience in formulation science and nanotechnology facilitates value addition to palm-phytonutrients (tocotrienols, carotenes, etc) and natural bioactives. Her work encompasses a wholesome research program for palm-tocotrienols from product development to clinical trials and regulatory affairs. She is the Vice President for Controlled Release Society Malaysia Chapter and a committee member in the Malaysian Technical Committee on Nanotechnologies.

Belvinder started her career at the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) in 1994. Over the past 25 years, she has been involved in marketing, promotions, communications and branding with a special focus on issues management. She has spear headed various public affairs campaigns addressing legislations and policies that impact palm oil trade globally. She is currently the Deputy CEO and Director of Branding & Promotions at MPOC. She has an MBA from Stratchlyde University, Glasgow.

Dr. Ruslan Abdullah is currently the Director for Science & Environment Division, Malaysian Palm Oil Council. He received his Ph.D in Botany (Plant Gene Manipulation) from Nottingham University, England. Dr. Ruslan Abdullah has over 30 years of experience with the oil palm industry. He began as a Biotechnologist (1984) with Guthrie Group Berhad and his final assignment was as Head of Research and Development. He was also an Associate Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Following the merger of Guthrie-Golden Hope-Sime Darby, he was appointed as Senior Vice President and Head of Plantation Research of the new and enlarged Sime Darby. Dr. Ruslan Abdullah was also the Head of Minamas Research Centre, the Sime Darby R&D arm in Indonesia. As head of plantation R&D, his main responsibility was to pursue for yield improvement using both conventional and modern innovative approaches. Dr. Ruslan was also the Project Director with Sime Darby Foundation (SDF) on two SDF Chair of Excellence Projects; namely Zero-waste technology in oil palm mills and Climate Change

Guendalina Graffigna received a PhD in Social Psychology at Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth of Milan (Italy) where she actually is Full Professor. At the same University she is member of the Coordination Committee of the PhD School in Psychology and of the Ethics Committee of the Department of Psychology at the Same University. From 2017, she is Director of the Consumer, Food & Health Research Center -EngageMinds Hub of the Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth of Milan and Director of the Executive Master in Patient Advocacy Management

Before her actual appointments, Guendalina has been a Post Doc fellow (A.A. 2007-2008) and visiting professor in Qualitative Methods (A.A. 2008-2009) at the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta - CA with which she still collaborate for several research and teaching initiatives.

Beside her academicals appointments she is currently Director of the Study and Training Centre of ASSIRM (Italian Association of Marketing Research Institutes and member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Psychology.

From 2018 she has been acting as evaluator for the Italian National Abilitation to the Accademic Career (ASN- MIUR) and from November 2020 she is member of the Italian Procedure of Academic Quality Assessment (VQR – MIUR) Her research and scientific activities are mainly devoted to the study of consumer engagement in health, wellbeing and food consumption. She has spent the last 10 years of activity in constructing bridges between scientific/academic knowledge and at present she is coordinating an intra and inter university reflection for contributing to priorities and policies discussions on people engagement and participation in health and care

In 2014 she validated the PATIENT HEALTH ENGAGEMENT Scale: the first measure of the patients' psychological experience of engagement in chronic care management, which is now widely adopted by healthcare and research organizations worldwide.

According to the international scientific database Scopus she is the most productive scholar in the domain of PATIENT ENGAGEMENT.

Having joined Chester Zoo’s Field Programmes team in 2008, Cat’s current role as Field Conservation Manager leads the zoo’s field conservation work in Borneo and Sumatra and engaging with stakeholders in the palm oil supply chain, from other NGOs to field partners and local businesses. Cat leads the field programmes team’s involvement in conservation campaigns, working closely with other departments on behaviour and social change initiatives, including the Chester Zoo led sustainable palm oil challenge campaign. She works with international zoos and conservation organisations, including chairing the EAZA Imported Deforestation and Sustainable Agriculture working group, to find solutions to reversing the environmental impact of unsustainable palm oil.

Dr Teng has been actively involved in palm oil clinical research since 2007. She has graduated from University of Malaya in biochemistry and subsequently pursued Master in Community Nutrition from UKM and conducted PhD research in Human Nutrition under the scholarship of MPOB. She has been appointed as writer of Malaysian Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents, currently serving as industry representative for Malaysian Dietary Guidelines and technical committee of Malaysian Food Composition Database. She is currently appointed as Group Leader of Diet & Lifestyle, Malaysian Palm Oil Board. Her primary research interests are the relationship between macronutrients – in particular focus on dietary fats with metabolic syndrome, inflammation and obesity. For this, dietary intervention studies are carried out with human volunteers. Studies are designed not only to look at effects, but also to unravel the biochemical and molecular mechanisms, which underlie these effects. In recent projects, nutrigenomics as related to the physiological and mechanistic studies towards personalised nutrition has played a central role to unravel the relation of palm oil consumption in the regions. The functionality of palm oil, in particular red palm oil and its components, is key focus in the evidence-based approach supporting the development of foods, dietary guidelines and health claims towards the future roadmap of individualised nutrition.