Hanns-Christoph Eiden, Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), Germany:

"What does it need to improve nutrition quality? The role of public partners"

Dr. Hanns-Christoph Eiden has been president of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) since 2010. He heads a federal agency competent for control measures in the agricultural, the food and the fisheries sectors and for the implementation of research and communication programmes. Among others, his tasks include the coordination of German interests in agricultural research at European level, active cooperation in respective EU committees, as well as protecting agro-biodiversity and managing the Federal Programme for Organic Farming and other Forms of Sustainable Agriculture. Since 2017 the Federal Center for Nutrition has been established within the Federal Office. The Federal Office is also the national focal point responsible for the preparation of the International Conference on Nutrition 2 in Rome, in November 2014.  Before being appointed to his current position, Hanns-Christoph Eiden held various positions at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMEL), among them, most recently, that of director of European and International Affairs, and he was also the German spokesman at the EU Special Committee on Agriculture.  A lawyer by profession, he studied at the universities of Trier and Münster where, in 1983, he obtained his doctorate in law for his dissertation on the harmonization of laws in Europe.

Leslie Amoroso, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy:

"Post-2015 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Where are we now? Strategies to improve nutrition quality and combat hidden hunger"

Leslie Amoroso has a degree in international relations and diplomatic affairs with a focus on development policies from the Università di Bologna, Italy. She holds a Master’s in urban and regional planning for developing countries with emphasis on food and nutrition security and livelihood issues from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV), Venice, Italy. Ms Amoroso has wide international experience in food and nutrition security policy and programme-related activities, with a focus on food and nutrition insecure and vulnerable households, childhood, gender and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, the Gambia and Nicaragua. She joined FAO Headquarters in Rome in 2007, where she is Programme Officer in the Nutrition and Food Systems Division, working on governance, policy, programme and advocacy activities and initiatives aimed at improving nutrition with a food system approach. Ms Amoroso supported the joint FAO/WHO Secretariat of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) with the coordination of FAO’s preparatory activities for the Conference covering the planning, governance, policy, strategy and technical aspects. She is currently providing support to the post-ICN2 activities and to the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025). She is co-editor of the joint FAO/CABI publications “Improving Diets and Nutrition – Food-based Approaches” (2014) and “Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies: Food-based Approaches” (2011). She also contributed to several articles, policy and technical papers, reports, and other relevant materials on nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food-based approaches and food environments for healthy diets.

Joachim von Braun, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Germany:

"Economic and political innovation for success in nutrition" 

			Joachim von Braun is Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn University, and Professor for economic and technological change.  von Braun’s main research interests are in economic development, poverty reduction, food and nutrition security, resource economics, trade, science and technology policy. He is chair of the Bioeconomy Council of the Federal German Government; Vice-Chair of Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Vice-President of the NGO “Welthungerhilfe”, member of German Academy of Science and Engineering, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican, the African Academy of Science, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He was Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington, DC, U.S.A. from 2002 to 2009, and President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). His awards include the Justus von Liebig Prize for World Nutrition 2011, the Bertebos Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry 2009 for research on food and nutrition security.

Shawn Baker, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA:

"Realizing the promising of ending hidden hunger: challenges and future directions" 

Shawn K. Baker joined the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in August 2013 and is Director of Nutrition in the Global Development Program. He has over 30 years’ experience in international public health, including 25 years living in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining the foundation he was with Helen Keller International including 16 years as Vice President and Regional Director for Africa. In that role he oversaw expansion from four to 13 country programs. Flagship programs that he has shaped include vitamin A supplementation through child health days reaching over 50 million children twice-yearly and food fortification programs reaching over 130 million consumers. He led development of strategic regional relationships, particularly with the 15-nation West African Health Organization. In addition, he served as country director for Helen Keller International in Niger and Bangladesh. Other responsibilities during Mr. Baker’s 30 years career include: Co-Promoter of the Niger Health Information System, Coordinator of the Tulane University Center for International Health and Development, and Coordinator of the Famine Early Warning System in Southern Africa, and representative in Niger. He served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaïre). Mr. Baker received a Master’s of Public Health degree from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in 1989 with concentrations in international health and nutritional epidemiology. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Miami. He is the author or co-author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications, presentations at international conferences and monographs. Mr. Baker’s longstanding commitment to Niger has been recognized by the awarding of “Officier de l’Ordre du Mérite du Niger” by the Presidency of the Republic of Niger and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His service on committees and advisory groups include the Technical Review Panel for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, which he chaired until November 2014. He currently chairs the Executive Committee of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement and was on the board of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition 2013-2016.

Beate Weiskopf, German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO), Germany:

"Nutrition and living conditions of smallholder cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire – opportunities for improvement by the project PRO-PLANTEURS"

Beate Weiskopf is an agricultural scientist and has worked for GIZ in the fields of rural development in Germany and abroad since 1990. Since February 2014, she is executive secretary of the administrative office of the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO). Beate Weiskopf conducted projects in West Africa as well as Latin America for GIZ. In both, Ecuador (2002 – 2008) and in Nicaragua (2008 – 2013), one of her responsibilities was to strengthen the cocoa value chains. Working in close cooperation with the private sector constituted an important part of her work in both countries. Within her career Ms. Weiskopf also worked for the FAO and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), here strengthening the international research in agriculture was one of her work fields.   The German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO) is an alliance of the German Federal Government, the German confectionary industry, the German retail grocery trade and civil society. It serves as an intermediate between actors from Germany and cocoa producing countries as well as global initiatives and has more than 70 members. GISCO’s objectives are to improve the living conditions of cocoa farmers and their families, to conserve and protect natural resources and biodiversity in cocoa producing countries as well as to increase the cultivation and commercialization of sustainably produced cocoa. Together with the governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Germany, GISCO supports the project PRO-PLANTEURS, of which one focal element is to improve the nutrition of cocoa farmers and their families.

Mathias Mogge, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., Germany:

"Without land, no crops - and without variety, no healthy and sustainable diets"

Mathias Mogge has been Welthungerhilfe's Executive Director Programmes since March 2010. The agricultural engineer and environmental scientist has been working for Welthungerhilfe for a total of 18 years. Prior to his position as Executive Director Programmes he served as Acting Director of the Programmes and Projects Department. He has held various positions within Welthungerhilfe’s Programmes and Projects Department. Between 1998 and 2001 he worked on the Regional Desk East Africa and was in charge of the programmes in Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan. In 2001 he went to Bamako, Mali, as Regional Director for West Africa and was responsible for the Regional Programme there until 2005. He then returned to Bonn and headed the Knowledge-Innovation-Consultancy Unit in the Programmes Department that deals with conceptual issues of overseas programmes and with the internal knowledge management process. Before joining Welthungerhilfe he worked as a development worker with the German Development Service in Sudan and completed a master’s degree in Norwich, Great Britain. In an honorary capacity he acts as a member of the executive committee of VENRO (Verband Entwicklungspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe deutscher Nichtregierungsorganisationen e.V./ umbrella organisation of development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Germany), also as a member of an expert team of the Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development of the GIZ.

Claudia Warning, Brot für die Welt, Germany:

"Hidden hunger - a challenge for international development cooperation"

Prof. Dr. Claudia Warning has been a member of the board of the Protestant Agency for Diakonie and Development based in Berlin since its founding as a result of the merger between EED (Church Development Service) and “Diakonisches Werk der EKD” (Social Welfare Organisation of the Protestant Church in Germany) in summer 2012. Already since 2005 she had been a board member of EED. In Bread for the World – Protestant Development Service, being part of the Protestant Agency for Diakonie and Development, she heads the International and Domestic Programmes, which promote more than 2000 development projects in about 100 countries worldwide. She is responsible for the units Development Education Support; Scholarships; and Ecumenical Partnership, Inter-Church Aid and Europe. As of November 2014 she is also the chairperson of the board of the Ecumenical Study Institute (Ökumenisches Studienwerk) in Bochum which was founded in 1972 by the Evangelical Churches in Germany and belongs to the Protestant Agency for Diakonie and Development. Since December 2014 she is a board member of the Bread for the World Foundation (Stiftung Brot für die Welt). In February 2009 she has been appointed member of the board of trustees of the German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik). Beyond that she holds a range of board positions in different associations and foundations. Prof. Dr. Warning studied in Bonn and Pune (India), where she earned a Ph.D in Geography. In July 2012 Prof. Dr. Warning was appointed Honorary Professor at the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE) of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. Prof. Dr. Claudia Warning has varied experience in the field of development cooperation in different governmental and non-governmental institutions, such as the Karl Kübel Foundation for Children and Families, where she was a board member from 1999 until 2005; the German Foundation for International Development (DSE, now GIZ); the German Commission Justice and Peace / Deutsche Kommission Justitia et Pax; as well as the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS), where she was in charge of bi- and multilateral co-operation in the field of urban development. Prof. Dr. Claudia Warning was appointed chairperson of the Association of German Development Non-Governmental Organisations (VENRO) from 2005 to 2009, after being vice chair of the VENRO board for four years. VENRO represents more than 100 German Non-Governmental Organisations working in the field of development co-operation. Until May 2011 she was also vice chair of the Association of World Council of Churches related Development Organisations in Europe (APRODEV), located in Brussels. Prof. Dr. Claudia Warning has published various articles on development politics, inter alia about the issue of participative urban development, environment and natural resource management, and microfinance.

Channing Arndt, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Development Strategy and Governance Division, USA:

"Effects of Food Price Shocks on Child Malnutrition: The Mozambican Experience 2008/09"

Channing Arndt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute. He has more than 25 years of experience in development economics with seven years combined resident experience in Morocco and Mozambique. He has published more than 70 articles in leading academic journals. He has substantial research management experience including leadership of interdisciplinary teams and has taken leadership roles in major policy documents such as the design of a carbon tax for the National Treasury of South Africa, the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change for the World Bank, and the Second, Third, and Fourth National Poverty Assessments for the Government of Mozambique. He has an established reputation for effectively building institutional capacity in Mozambique, South Africa, Morocco, Vietnam and within the framework of the African Economic Research Consortium. His program of research has focused on agricultural development, poverty alleviation and growth, market integration, gender and discrimination, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, infrastructure investment, energy, bioenergy, climate variability, and the implications of climate change.

Klaus von Grebmer, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA:

"Accelerating the elimination of hunger and undernutrition: Status report on Compact2025"

Klaus von Grebmer is a Research Fellow emeritus in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Director General’s Office. He was Director of IFPRI’s Communications Division from 1999-2011. In 1998 he joined the World Bank within its Staff Exchange Program and was a principal operations officer in rural development. Before that, Klaus worked for 26 years in the private sector as a business consultant, health economist, and senior manager in communications and issues management. In 1998 he joined the World Bank within its Staff Exchange Program and was a principal operations officer in rural development. He has managed the publication of the Global Hunger Index since 2005. Klaus is an economist and his main interests are to improve communicating complex scientific issues to general audiences.

Matin Qaim, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany:

"On the link between production diversity and dietary quality in smallholder farm households"

Matin Qaim is Professor of International Food Economics and Rural Development at the University of Goettingen. Before, he was Professor at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Research Team Leader at the Center for Development Research in Bonn, and Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Qaim holds a doctoral degree in agricultural economics from the University of Bonn. He has extensive research experience related to the economics hunger and malnutrition with a special focus on rural areas in developing countries. He has implemented numerous studies on impacts of agricultural technologies and institutional innovations in the small farm sector. Qaim is member of several scientific and policy advisory committees.

Michael B. Krawinkel, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany:

"Sustainability of interventions against micronutrient deficiency"

German citizen, based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Professor emeritus of human nutrition with focus on international nutrition, Justus-Liebig-university, Giessen. Visiting professor of the universities of Vienna and the Hebrew university of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel. Recent publications on breastfeeding, diversity of diets, bioactive components of vegetables, and nutrition education for dietary diversity (see PubMed).  Ongoing research on baobab-derived foods (BAOFOODS), modelling agriculture interventions for nutrition outcomes (IMMANA), contribution of a more diverse farming to diverse diets and nutrition security(HealthyLAND), and nutrition of women in the garment industry of Cambodia (LUPROGAR). Further info

Keith P. West, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA: 

"Micronutrient deficiencies in pregnancy worldwide: health effects and prevention"

Keith P. West, Jr., Dr.P.H., R.D. is the  George G. Graham Professor of Infant and Child Nutrition and Director of the Program and Center for Human Nutrition within the Department of International Health at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.  He is a Registered Dietitian and earned his Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.  Dr. West has worked in international nutrition for 40 years, conducting field trials and epidemiological studies to prevent vitamin A and other micronutrient deficiencies and their health consequences in children and women.  He has worked extensively in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Indonesia.  Professor West has over 190 scientific publications and was the 2007 recipient of the American Society of Nutrition’s International Nutrition Prize.  At the School of Public Health, he mentors doctoral and masters’ students, teaches courses in International Nutrition and Food and Nutrition Policy.

Lindsay H. Allen, University of California, USA:

"Micronutrient deficiencies in lactation worldwide: effects on milk composition and implications for research and policy"

Dr. Lindsay Allen is Director of the USDA, ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center and Research Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis. She studies the prevalence, causes and consequences of micronutrient deficiencies, primarily in developing countries, using randomized, controlled human trials testing micronutrient supplements, food fortification, and food-based approaches to improve nutritional status, pregnancy outcome and child development, described in her 250 publications. She has increased awareness of the globally high prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency, its adverse consequences and response to food-based and supplementation interventions, and uses novel methods to measure B12 absorption and functional effects of supplementation. Her current focus is on methods for assessment of micronutrients in human milk, and effective interventions for increasing low milk micronutrient concentrations. Dr. Allen served on eleven committees of the Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, and has advised many national, bilateral and international organizations including WHO, UNICEF, Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, PAHO and FAO. She is principal author of “What Works? A Review of the Efficacy and Effectiveness of Nutrition Interventions”, and WHO’s “Guidelines on Food Fortification with Micronutrients”. She served as President of the American Society for Nutrition and the Society for International Nutrition Research, and received the Kellogg Prize from the Society for International Nutrition Research, and the McCollum International Lectureship and Conrad A. Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition from the American Society for Nutrition. She is past Vice President of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, and serves on the International Micronutrient Forum and the Board of the International Nutrition Foundation, and chairs the Vitamin B12 Expert Panel for NIH’s Biomarkers in Nutrition and Development.  In 2016 she received the Outstanding Investigator of the Year Award from the Vitamins and Minerals Research Interest Section of the American Society for Nutrition, and the Career Achievement in Evidence Translation Award from the Mathile Institute.

Robert E. Black, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA:

"Interventions to reduce malnutrition"

Robert E. Black, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor and Director of the Institute for International Programs of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.  Dr. Black is trained in medicine, infectious diseases and epidemiology.  He served as a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and worked at institutions in Bangladesh and Peru on research related to childhood infectious diseases and nutritional problems. He was Chair of the Department of International Health of the Bloomberg School of Public Health from 1985-2013. Dr. Black’s current research includes field trials of vaccines, micronutrients and other interventions, effectiveness studies of health programs, and evaluation of preventive and curative health service programs in low- and middle-income countries. In the last 20 years he led work that demonstrated the benefits of zinc supplements in prevention and treatment of childhood diarrhea and pneumonia.  His other interests are related to the use of evidence in policy and programs, including estimates of causes of child mortality, the development of research capacity and the strengthening of public health training.  As a member of the US Institute of Medicine and advisory bodies of the World Health Organization, the International Vaccine Institute, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh and other international organizations, he assists with the development of research and policies intended to improve child health. He chaired the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative and serves on the governing boards of the Micronutrient Initiative and Vitamin Angels.  He has more than 650 scientific journal publications and is co-editor of the textbook “Global Health.”  Dr. Black is the recipient of the Programme for Global Paediatric Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to Global Child Health in 2010, the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health in 2010, the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award in 2011, the Nutrition Leadership Award from Sight and Life in 2013, and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award in 2016.

Lawrence Haddad, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Switzerland:

"How we can make food systems deliver better diet quality"

Lawrence Haddad is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).  Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) where he served as the Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report from 2014-2016.  From 2004-2014 Lawrence was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK and a Professor of Development Studies. He was the UK’s representative on the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN's Committee on World Food Security (CSF) from 2009-2011. He was the President of the UK and Ireland's Development Studies Association from 2010 to 2012. Before joining IDS Lawrence was Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at IFPRI from 1994-2004. Prior to this he was was a lecturer in quantitative development economics at the University of Warwick. He has also been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics.  His work focuses on a wide range of issues related to the well- being of the poor, including the design of policies and programs intended to reduce poverty and malnutrition, the impact of gender difference in access to resources on nutrition and poverty, the role of community participation in the performance of poverty programs, and the challenges rapid urbanization poses for food security and nutrition. He has published extensively on these issues. Lawrence completed his PhD in Food Research from Stanford University in 1988.

SYMPOSIUM 1: COMBATING HIDDEN HUNGER

Howarth Bouis, HarvestPlus/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA:

"Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus"

As director of HarvestPlus during 2003-2016, Howarth Bouis coordinated an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional effort to breed and disseminate micronutrient-rich staple food crops to reduce mineral and vitamin deficiencies among malnourished populations in developing countries. Since 1993, he has sought to promote biofortification globally. In 2016, Bouis was awarded the World Food Prize, in recognition of the accomplishments of the HarvestPlus team. Dr. Bouis received his B.A. in economics from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Food Research Institute, a program in agricultural economics. His past research at the International Food Policy Research Institute (which he joined in 1982 as post-doctoral fellow and where he is still employed) focused on understanding how economic factors affect food demand and nutrition outcomes, particularly in Asia. During 1972-75, Bouis worked as a volunteer in the Philippines with Volunteers in Asia.

Haribondhu Sarma, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh:

"Home fortification with micronutrient powder: challenges and opportunities for combating hidden hunger in low-income countries"

Mr. Haribondhu Sarma is a public health researcher with a Master degree in Anthropology. For the last 15 years he has been working in public health program, mostly in the field of nutrition, vaccination, health systems and HIV/AIDS. Mr. Sarma is experienced in implementing innovative mixed method evaluation and implementation researches, knowledge translation, and health systems analysis. Mr. Sarma has led about 12 research projects, conducted several large-scale evaluation studies, operations researches and published more than 35 papers including peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and working papers. Currently, Mr. Sarma is leading Nutrition Program Evaluation Unit of the Nutrition and Clinical Services Division at icddr,b and as a Principle Investigator, he is implementing 6 research projects on child nutrition, including on home fortification of micronutrient powder. Additionally, Mr. Sarma has worked as a member of the technical committee for the Institute of Public Health Nutrition for developing nutrition indicators for routine HMIS. His areas of research interests are on Social determinants of malnutrition, Micronutrient home fortification, Mixed-methods research, Participatory M&E, and Operations Research.

Jack Winkler, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom:

"The most hidden of all the hidden hungers"

Professor of Nutrition Policy, London Metropolitan University, to 2010. Specialist researcher, policy analyst, writer, lecturer and consumer advocate on food, nutrition, and health.  Director, Nutrition Policy Unit, an independent consultancy to improve public health through dietary change, working primarily with public interest organisations.   Founder/officer/member of most UK food advocacy groups, including Action on Sugars, Sustain, Consensus Action on Salt and Health, London Food Commission, National Food Alliance, Coronary Prevention Group, Joint Health Claims Initiative. For 13 years, Chair of Action & Information on Sugars. Trained as sociologist at the London School of Economics and Stanford University. Academic posts at the University of Kent, Imperial College London, Cranfield University, and King’s Fund Institute, working on a wide variety of economic and social policy issues. Selected recent publications: omega-3s and nutrition policy generally. “Where Will Future LC-Omega-3 Come From?”, in DeMeester, Watson, Zibadi (Eds), Sustainable LC-Omega-3 for a Better World, Springer, 2013  “Bio-fortification: Improving the Nutritional Quality of Staple Crops”, in Pasternak (Ed), Access not Excess, London, 2011  "Action Options on Omega-3s: Recommendations, Sources, Policies", Nutrition & Health, Vol 18, pp 343-53, 2007  “Nutritional Reformulation: The Unobtrusive Strategy”, Food Science & Technology, 2014  “Obscurity on Obesity”, BMC Medicine, 2014  “Making the Healthy Choice the Cheaper Choice”, The Grocer, 2013  “Brutal Pragmatism on Food”, British Medical Journal, 2013

SYMPOSIUM 2: SUPPLEMENTATION

Noel W. Solomons, Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM), Guatemala:

"Trace element interventions - Public health interventions meet evolutionary biology: Examples from iron and zinc" 

Noel W. Solomons is the co-founder and scientific director of the Center for Studies, Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) in Guatemala City, founded in 1985.  He was born and educated around Boston, Massachusetts, attending Harvard College with an A.B. degree in biochemical sciences (1966) and Harvard Medical School with an M.D. (1970).  He trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology and clinical nutrition at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Chicago, respectively.  He became an Affiliated Investigator at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) in 1975, and has maintained a continuous home base in Guatemala since that date.  He commuted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Assistant and Associate Professor in Clinical Nutrition from 1977 to 1984, while retaining the INCAP affiliation.  Since founding CeSSIAM in 1985, he has performed dietary, nutritional status or metabolic research with most of the vitamins and essential minerals and trace elements across a lifespan perspective from lactation biology to later life.  Biomarkers of nutritional status, dietary bioavailability and effects of deficiency and excess have been his focus across the micronutrients and with respect to zinc and iron, in particular.  He has collaborated or taught in universities in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Indonesia, and currently holds adjunct professorships at Tufts and Boston Universities in Boston.  Among his honors are membership in the Guatemalan Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences, the 1997 International Nutrition Prize at the International Congress on Nutrition and the 2010 Medal of Science and Technology from the Congress of Guatemala.  Dr. Solomons is the author of  340 publications indexed on Medline, along with books, book chapters, editorials and commentaries, and international, review and original papers totaling to over 600 total contributions to the literature.

SYMPOSIUM 3: MICROBIOTA AND GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

Tahmeed Ahmed, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research and BRAC University, Bangladesh:

"Gut microbiota and malnutrition in children"

Dr. Tahmeed Ahmed is Senior Director and Senior Scientist of the Nutrition and Clinical Services Division of icddr,b. He is a clinician with a PhD and for the last 30 years has been working on the treatment of and public health measures for malnutrition, childhood tuberculosis, and diarrheal diseases. He developed a treatment protocol for management of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and diarrheal diseases, the implementation of which resulted in a 50% reduction in case fatality among children admitted to the hospital with SAM. The team led by Dr. Ahmed has recently developed nutritional treatment from locally available food ingredients for preventing and treating acute malnutrition in children. Dr. Ahmed was actively involved in the development of national guidelines for management of childhood malnutrition as well as tuberculosis in Bangladesh. He also worked with WHO in revising the global guidelines on management of childhood malnutrition. He was a member of the writing team for the Lancet series on maternal and child under nutrition published in 2008 and also in 2013. Currently he is the Bangladesh site principal investigator of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supported multi-country Malnutrition-Enteric Diseases (Mal-ED) Project. This study is investigating the association between malnutrition, enteric diseases and cognitive development. His study of microbiota in acute malnutrition has been published in Nature. He has also investigated the microbiome in patients with cholera, results of which have also been published in Nature. He is also working intimately on stunting and environmental enteropathy. Dr. Ahmed was the Chair of the sub-committee formed by the Government of Bangladesh to draft the National Nutrition Policy of Bangladesh. He works closely with WHO, UNICEF and the International Atomic Energy Agency in research and training on nutrition. He is a Professor of Public Health Nutrition at the James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. A prolific author, he has more than 200 papers published in international journals. While he was a student of Mymensingh Medical College, Dr. Ahmed was an active member and President of the national committee of Sandhani, a voluntary service organization of medical students. Dr. Ahmed was elected President (2011-2013) of the Commonwealth Association for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN), an association of professionals from the 54 Commonwealth nations.

Irwin H. Rosenberg, Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, USA:

"Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) as an effect modifier in African trials in the treatment and prevention of stunting"

Doctor Irwin Rosenberg is University Professor of Nutrition and Medicine at Tufts University's USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) and the Friedman School of Nutritional Science and Policy. He was born and educated through college in Madison, Wisconsin and received his M.D. at Harvard Medical School with sub-specialty training in Internal Medicine Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Thorndike Memorial laboratory and at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). After serving as chair of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago, Dr. Rosenberg was appointed Director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts and then Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. In the 1970’s he was one of the investigators who described Tropical Enteropathy (now Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, EED) in South Asia. His other research interests include the impact of diet and nutrition on aging brain functions with special reference to the vitamins Folic acid and B 12, as well as the regulation of homocysteine metabolism and maintenance of cerebrovascular integrity.  Dr. Rosenberg was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and served as chair of its Food and Nutrition Board.  He is the current editor of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin and former editor of the Nutrition Reviews.

SYMPOSIUM 4: CLIMATE CHANGE

Rainer Sauerborn, University of Heidelberg, Germany:

"Climate change and child undernutrition - hot topic or hot air?"

Rainer Sauerborn was the lead author of the health chapter of the recent assessment report of the IPCC (Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change). He served as an advisor to the German Federal Government on “Global Environmental Changes” from 2000-2004. He was Guest Professor of Climate Change and Global Health in Umeå, Sweden and is Visiting Chair for Climate Change at the Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité. He has taught the topic in multiple formats to various audiences, from academics to policy-makers to the general public. He worked as a Médecin-Chef du District de Santé de Nouna, Burkina Faso, from 1989 to 1982. He trained as a paediatrician at the Medical School of Heidelberg University, after which he of doctorate in Public Health from Harvard University. As a coordinator of the Health Office of the Harvard Institute for International Development (1992-6), he learned to apply an inter-sectoral wide-angle view at development. From 1997 to 2016, he held the Chair of Public Health at Heidelberg University. He has a long-standing track record of service and research in Africa and Asia on health systems with a particular focus on climate change and health.

Rolf Klemm, Helen Keller International (HKI), USA:

"Micronutrient programs in a changing landscape"

Rolf DW Klemm, MPH, DrPH, Vice President of Nutrition, is a nutritional epidemiologist with 30 years of professional experience in international public health nutrition with expertise in the design, evaluation and management of nutrition interventions to improve maternal and child health and survival including dietary interventions, infant and young child feeding strategies, food fortification and micronutrient supplementation. Dr. Klemm has served as Country Director for HKI in the Philippines, Senior Technical Advisor and Technical Director of USAID’s flagship A2Z micronutrient project, and maintains his faculty appointment as Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  He has published extensively in scientific journals articles, and is principle instructor of the Food and Nutrition Policy course at Hopkins. As VP Nutrition for HKI, he represents the organization at major global scientific meetings and expert groups, and provides scientific and technical leadership to HKI’s regional and country offices.

Lawrence Haddad, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Switzerland:

"How can businesses and actors in the public sector better work together to advance nutrition status?"

Lawrence Haddad is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).  Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) where he served as the Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report from 2014-2016.  From 2004-2014 Lawrence was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK and a Professor of Development Studies. He was the UK’s representative on the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN's Committee on World Food Security (CSF) from 2009-2011. He was the President of the UK and Ireland's Development Studies Association from 2010 to 2012. Before joining IDS Lawrence was Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at IFPRI from 1994-2004. Prior to this he was was a lecturer in quantitative development economics at the University of Warwick. He has also been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics.  His work focuses on a wide range of issues related to the well- being of the poor, including the design of policies and programs intended to reduce poverty and malnutrition, the impact of gender difference in access to resources on nutrition and poverty, the role of community participation in the performance of poverty programs, and the challenges rapid urbanization poses for food security and nutrition. He has published extensively on these issues. Lawrence completed his PhD in Food Research from Stanford University in 1988.

Detlev Grimmelt, Fairtrade Deutschland, Germany:

"Empowering smallholders and strengthening rural communities – the Fairtrade approach to combat hidden hunger and poverty"

Member of the Board TransFair e.V. / Fairtrade.  Detlev Grimmelt looks back at 25 years of experience in the field of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). Having completed his studies in business administration, he started to gain first professional experience at the coop group. He then held different marketing and sales positions at the dairy company Arla Foods for 18 years before he became CEO of Finefood Alliance. Since 2011 Detlev Grimmelt has been working for TransFair e.V. (Fairtrade Germany). As a member of the executive board he is in charge of TransFair’s Marketing and Sales Department. Furthermore, he is Fairtrade Germany’s contact to the Asian and Pacific Producer Network and a member of Fairtrade’s International Finance Committee which controls finances and participates in developing strategies to align and ensure the distribution of money to interest groups in the Global South.  TransFair e.V. is a non-profit association which was founded in 1992. As German member organization of Fairtrade International TransFair e.V. is also called Fairtrade Germany. A team of more than 50 people contributes to establishing Fairtrade in the German economy and society. Fairtrade connects consumers, businesses and producer organizations in the Global South. Fairtrade changes trade by means of fairer prices for small scale producers and more humane working conditions for small scale farmers as well as workers on plantations.

Sarah Schneider, Bischöfliches Hilfswerk MISEREOR e.V., Germany:

"Structural causes of malnutrition and alternative solutions for sustainable food systems"

Sarah Schneider is working as Advocacy Officer on food and agriculture for the German NGO MISEREOR, with a special focus on agroecology and nutrition. She looks at the structural causes of hunger and malnutrition and promotes holistic approaches to create healthy and sustainable food systems, in collaboration with NGOs in the global South. Before joining MISEREOR, she has worked at the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, supporting the International Year for Family Farming and accompanying studies on short supply chains and public procurement. Sarah studied International Development at the University of Vienna and wrote her thesis about urban agriculture and political reforms in Cuba. She has work and research experience in Peru, Cuba and Chile.

Paul Armbruster, Germany:

"The role of cooperation to improve smallholder livelihoods"

Trained and certified Banker. Volunteer in Rural Cooperative Projects in Bolivia and Ecuador. Studies in economics and business administration at Mannheim University, Graduate in Economics. Assistant Professor University of Mannheim. PhD in Business Administration. Researcher in the Research Institute for International Agriculture in Heidelberg. Consultant for national and international Organizations. 1988-2014 Head of the International Relations Department in the Deutscher Genossenschafts- und Raiffeisenverband e.V. (DGRV)/German Cooperative Confederation. 2002-2013 General Secretary of the International Raiffeisen Union (IRU) Member of different official working groups and foundations. Senior Consultant in Cooperatives, Farmer's Associations Rural Finance and Rural Development.

Mirjana Gurinović, University of Belgrade, Serbia:

"Diet Assess & Plan (DAP) software for dietary intake assessment in supporting public health nutrition research in Central Eastern European Countries (CEEC)"

Mirjana Gurinović MD, PhD in nutrition, Scientific Research Advisor, FAO Expert TCDC/TCCT and Nutrition consultant FAOREU, EFSA Hearing Expert working  at the Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism ,Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade, Serbia www.srbnutrition.info is an experienced scientist who is actively engaged in research on nutrition, food composition, micronutrient recommendations, public health nutrition and epidemiology, dietary intake  and nutritional status assessment,  diet and health. She has considerable experience in co-coordinating national projects and has led a national study of atherosclerotic risk factors, nutritional status and the nutrition quality of diet in school children, as well as dietary quality and health status in the adult population in Serbia. She was the WHO Nutrition counterpart for Serbia and National coordinator for Nutrition action plan for nutrition and strategy for obesity prevention in Serbia, and has collaborated over a number of years with FAO, the regional office in Budapest. She has over 300 published peer-review papers, abstracts, and reports in national and international journals. She also created several software’s   for food composition data base management, dietary intake assessment, nutrition planning and diet modeling  with the possibility to link with monitoring of the nutritional status  of a population. She was also involved as focal point for the FAO International Year of Pulses 2016 celebration, national, regional and global dialogue. Dr Gurinović  is a member of a number of professional associations including: ILSI Europe, Dietary intake and exposure task force, expert group member  “Evaluation of new methods for dietary intake assessment”, Nutrition Expert Group in European Heart Network, founding member of the World Public Health Nutrition Association (WPHNA), International Scientific Committee of Choices International Foundation (ISC) and many others. She is a Chair of the Capacity Development Network in Nutrition in Central and Eastern Europe, (NCDNCEE/CAPNUTRA) (www.capnutra.org) and contributed to food nutrition capacity development in this region.  She was actively involved in several EC FP6 /FP7 NoE projects, including EURRECA, EuroFIR, EFSA projects, BaseFood, CHANCE, EuroFIR-Nexus, ODIN, Bacchus, and Project advisory board (PAB) member in Euro DISH- "Study on the need for food and health research infrastructures in Europe”. Personal home page: http://srbnutrition.info/english/portfolio/dr-mirjana-gurinovic-naucni-savetnik/

SYMPOSIUM 5: A SHORT TRIP TO ASIA

Sabine Gabrysch, University of Heidelberg, Germany:

"Food-based approaches to Hidden Hunger: The Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) project in Bangladesh"

Sabine Gabrysch is Deputy Head of the Institute of Public Health at Heidelberg University and Head of the Institute's Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as a Honorary Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has been elected to the Board of the German Society of Epidemiology and the Heidelberg Centre for the Environment. Sabine holds a medical degree from the University of Tübingen and an MSc and PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She worked as a medical doctor in Sweden and Ethiopia and as a consultant to GIZ. Her area of research is global maternal and child health. Among other awards and fellowships, Sabine has been a Margarete von Wrangell fellow and worked on geographic access to care and quality of care at childbirth in Ghana. Since 2013, she leads a BMBF-funded Junior Scientist Group conducting the six-year research project “Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition” (FAARM). The project entails a cluster-randomized trial among 2600 women in 96 villages of rural Bangladesh, evaluating the impact of Helen Keller International’s Homestead Food Production program on chronic undernutrition in women and young children.

SYMPOSIUM 5a: EXCURSION TO NEPAL

Stella Deetjen, Back to Life e.V., Germany:

"The forgotten people of Mugu (Nepal): Strategies against hunger and other challenges"

It was 20 years ago, right after leaving school, when Stella Deetjen, founder and chairwoman of the NGO "Back to Life", started her work with a social programme in Benares (Varanasi/India) – to help needy people with a background of leprosy. Till today the non-profit organization inaugurated three children’s homes and 13 (non-formal) slum schools in Benares. Since 2009, Back to Life also takes care about three project areas in Nepal: One of them is the lonely mountain area "Mugu" in the west of Nepal – home of the "Forgotten people". Here it’s a permanent fight against one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates of the world. The NGO constructed already six birth centres to support the woman of Mugu. Also nine schools obtained new school buildings to enable better carreer chances to the children. At the moment, Back to Life is reconstructing six schools in the area of "Nuwakot" which were destroyed by the earthquakes of 2015. In 2016, Stella Deetjen released a book about her first years in Benares and the start of the project work of Back to Life: It’s called "Unberührbar" ("Untouchable"). She is often invited by German TV and radio shows to speak about her work.

Marisa Schroth, Govinda Entwicklungshilfe e.V., Germany/Nepal:

"Multi-facet approach to fight malnutrition in Nepal"

Marisa Schroth studied nutrition (B.Sc.) and organic agriculture (M.Sc.) at the University of Hohenheim. She works now for an organic certification company. Since 2010 she's a member of Govinda e.V. During her studies she spent five month volunteering in the projects of the NGO in Nepal. Her main task was to analyze the nutrient uptake of the orphans. Based on the results she developed recommendations. Amendments of the food plan were made together with the kitchen team. She is now monitoring and consulting the SDA teams in agriculture and nutrition issues. In December 2016, she was honored with the German Engagement Award.

SYMPOSIUM 5b: EXCURSION TO INDIA

Nivedita Varshneya, Welthungerhilfe e.V., India:

"Linking Agriculture and Natural Resource Management towards Nutrition Security (LANN+) – a nutrition-sensitive multi-sector approach"

Nivedita Varshneya has been the Country Director of Welthungerhilfe India since 2014 and has been working with Welthungerhilfe since 10 years in different positions. Prior to Welthungerhilfe, she has worked with national level NGOs, CSRs and the Ministry of Rural Development in India on issues related to food security and sovereignty, sustainable agriculture, forestry and natural resource management, strengthening civil society and improved governance. Nivedita has a master’s degree in forest management and has received awards for studies abroad, including Wageningen University. Currently, she is a member of several professional societies and networks in India.

Debjeet Sarangi, Living Farms, India:

"Uncultivated forest foods as rich sources of micro nutrients" 

Debjeet Sarangi is the Managing Trustee of Living Farms, a NGO in Odisha, India. He has been working with indigenous communities since 1991. Living Farms has been involved in mobilising communities in 2500 villages covering a population of more than 700,000 to reclaim their local food system. Living Farms supports communities to partner with institutional scientists and Universities on collaborative research to evolve locally appropriate solutions to address malnutrition. Living Farms has been involved in understanding how forests are an important source of nutrition. Debjeet is a Sustainability Fellow at University of California, Irvine and was appointed Transform Nutrition Champion in 2016. He has studied Economics, Sociology, and Governance Reforms and trained in Sustainable Agriculture, Permaculture, and Linking Agriculture, Natural Resource and Nutrition (LANN).

Ravinder K. Soni, Dayanand Medical College & Hospital Ludhiana, India:

"The Nutrition Paradox in India: The coexistence of undernutrition and overnutrition"

Dr Ravinder Kumar Soni is working as Professor in the Department of Community Medicine, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India with his 29 years of experience in academics and research. He has received MAMS award for excellent contribution towards Medical research from National Academy of Medical Sciences, FSMS for enhancing the skills and research in Statistics by Indian Society for Medical Statistics and Health care excellence award for Best Teacher by The Indus Foundation USA and India. He has 62 research publications in various National and International journals. He has attended 29 National and 16 International Conferences in India and different countries. He has done WHO course on Health System Research and National course on Educational Science Technology for the Teachers of Health Professional besides other professional courses/trainings on Nutrition research. He has been resource faculty for many workshops/ symposiums on nutrition research at different parts of the country. He has also done Multidisciplinary Training of Trainers in Child Protection conducted by International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. He has been the Principal Investigator of the Multicentric Task Force Study on Consumption Pattern of Carbonated Soft Drinks of Indian Population at Different times of the year. He is Life member of various scientific bodies like International Epidemiological Association, Nutrition Society of India, Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine, Indian Science Congress, Indian Maternal and Child Health Association and Indian Society of Medical Statistics. He has been the Independent Monitor on behalf of WHO for various NID & SNID rounds of Pulse Polio Immunization in India for more than 10 years.

Monika Golembiewski, Shining eyes e.V., Germany/India:

"Community based nutrition programs for children aged 6-36 months and pregnant and lactating women to decrease anaemia and stunting prevalences in Bolpu, West bengal, India"

For the last 22 years, the paediatrician Dr. med. Monika Golembiewski has been working in Bolpur, West Bengal, India, as a volunteer to improve the health of children and their mothers. She founded the charitable society  "Shining Eyes - medical first aid for children and socio economic village devel-opment in India" and with her efforts a preventive health care centre could be inaugurated in 2011. This hospital is the centre of a preventive village work, where awareness trainings are conducted, village health workers are trained and kitchen gardens are being planted to enrich the monotonous diets of the Santals, who belong to the native inhabitants of India. In 2007 her daughter-in-law Silvia Golembiewski (development economist) joined this development work and mutually first nutrition programmes for children and mothers have been initiated. Meanwhile Caroline Stiller, nutritionist, from Hohenheim University joined the project and the nutrition programmes could be further optimized with her help. Since 2015 we run nutrition programmes in 14 villages to analyze the effectiveness of these community based cooking centres, where mothers are trained to prepare local foods for their children. To cover the children's' micronutrient needs, rather a micronutrient sprinkle or a locally produced leaf powder of Moringa and Amaranthus is mixed in the cooked meals. Therewith, we strive to decrease the still alarmingly high prevalences of anaemia and stunting amongst these children and mothers.

Rolf Bucher, Germany:

"Working with Santal Villagers, West Bengal, India: Moringa and Kitchen Gardens to combat malnutrition"

Rolf Bucher has aquired  the methods of organic and biodynamic agriculture in the late 1970s and has been practising them ever since. As farm manager for WALA/Dr.Hauschka Cosmetics (Germany) for more than 30 years he not only cultivated medicinal plants organically, but also gave workshops and trained agricultural students. Rolf Bucher is founding member and board director of “Hortus officinarum“, an organisation, whose aims are to preserve biodynamically or organically grown seeds of medicinal plants and to grow new cultivars. In close cooperation with GLS Zukunftsstiftung Entwicklung (Germany), he and his partner Anne Bucher have been working in rural development and education since 2011. Their main assignments so far: cooperating with small-holder farmers in India, Kenya, Vietnam and Zimbabwe  workshops for students at Biodynamic Farm School (India)  development of a school farm at Mbagathi Steiner School (Kenya)  workshops for the East African Waldorf Teacher Training (Kenya)

SYMPOSIUM 6: A short trip to Africa

Belem Tounaba Boukary, ProgettoMondo Mlal, Burkina Faso:

"Nutrition Educational Cells (NEC), a community based approach to fight against child undernutrition and strength community resilience, in rural area in Burkina Faso"

Dr BELEM Tounaba Boukary MD, MPH, Health and nutrition coordinator of ProgettoMondo Mlal in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Dr BELEM holds a  Doctorate degree  in medicine of Ouagadougou University, a Master Degree in  Public Health at Aix Marseille University and a University Degree in epidemiology and statistics methods at Bordeaux University. Regarding his last ten years experience, He worked mainly on access to primary health and nutrition services, including implementing and monitoring  community health and  nutrition programs in rural area, strengthening  community participation to health  services, involving stakeholders into health and nutrition projects implementation at local and intermediary levels of health system, contributing to policy development and evaluation in the field of community health. He is also interested particularly in development, testing and evaluation of effective integrated  approaches of  community involvement in health & nutrition programs including management of acute malnutrition and  promotion of infant and young child nutrition good practises in african rural area.

Claudia Hensel, University of Mainz, Germany:

"Students fight hidden hunger in Zambia - A mulitlevel approach to establish Enset - The tree against hunger"

Prof. Dr. Claudia Hensel is Professor for International Marketing at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany Profile: Research Focus on Strategy & Marketing in Emerging and Underserved Markets, Trend & Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility & Company Ethics, Change Management Extensive work experiences in International Marketing and Marketing Research in an American Blue Chip Company in the European Headquarter, Reigate, UK, Market Responsibilities for Benelux, France, UK Industry Insights through supervised  Change Management Projects in Executive MBA Programmes in Russia, Romania, Iran, Ethiopia and Germany in Pharmaceutical & Chemical Industry, IT, Banking & Insurances, Public Sector, FMCG and Industrial Products Market Insights through research projects and lecturing in China, Argentina, Iran, Russia, Rwanda, Romania and Ethiopia  Kurt-Dörr Award 2012 Founder of SEMAY® Association, Vision: „We believe that the world would be a better place if students around the world cared more about others“  Publications: Hensel, Claudia (2015): Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Theorie, Praxis und Lehre, in: Update, HS Mainz. Hensel, Claudia (2015): CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), in: Evangelisches Soziallexikon, 9.Auflage, Kohlhammer. Hensel, Claudia (2012): SARI – a framework for sustainable learning, conference paper, “TEACHING IS TOUCHING THE FUTURE. EMPHASIS ON SKILLS”, JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITYMAINZ, 29.-30.11.2012. Hensel, Claudia (2011): Minimissions in Ethiopia, in: Legrand,Willy/Simons-Kaufman, Claudia/Sloan Philip: Sustainable Hospitality as a Driver for Equitable Development: Case Studies from Developing Regions of the World, Taylor & Francis. Hensel, Claudia (2005): Der Einfluss von Erlebnissen auf den Kaufentscheidungsprozess – am besonderen Beispiel der Industriegütermessen, Shaker.

Daniel Knoblauch, Enactus Aachen e.V., Germany: 

"Samaki - An innovative approach to farm fish in rural Africa"

Daniel Knoblauch is the president of Enactus Aachen e.V. He studies industrial engineering in his first master semester at the RWTH Aachen university in Aachen. With his team of 90 students from various faculties he is trying to improve the lives of people in need with an economical approach. For one their projects Samaki, an innovative approach to farm fish in rural Africa, Daniel established a fish farm in Livingstone, Sambia. Currently the team is operating 5 fish farms in Uganda, Benin and Sambia. Daniel was one of the presenters at the Enactus World Cup, where the Enactus Aachen achieved an outstanding 3rd place.