Director
Dr. F. Xavier Medina. Director of the UNESCO Chair in Food, Culture and Development. Director of the Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society, UOC. Barcelona.
Dr F. Xavier Medina is a social anthropologist and has led research and education in Food and Culture for more than two decades. He is currently lecturer and programmes director in the Food Systems, Culture and Society section of the Health Sciences Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona. He has been president of the European Section of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF Europe) since 2006. He had previously been president of the Spanish Section of ICAF (ICAF Spain) between 2000 and 2006. He was also a member of the team drafting the candidature of the Mediterranean Diet as Intangible Cultural Heritage (2007-2010); the proposal was adopted by UNESCO in November 2010. He is also a member of the team promoting the candidature of Catalan Cuisine as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Secretary
Mr. Jordi Bages-Querol (UOC-FICCG). Barcelona.
Executive Council
Dr. Alicia Aguilar. Program Director of Nutrition. UOC. Barcelona
Dr. F. Xavier Medina. Director of the UNESCO Chair in Food, Culture and Development. Director of Food Systems, Culture and Society, UOC. Barcelona.
Dr. Jordi Tresserras. University of Barcelona. Director of the IBERTUR Network (Member of UNESCO-UNITWIN) and the Laboratory of Tourism, Creativity and Heritage (LABPACT). Tossa de Mar (Girona).
Dr. Laura Solanilla. Senior Lecturer and Programmes Director. Arts and Humanities Department, UOC. Barcelona.
Advisory Council
Dr. Alicia Aguilar. Program Director of Nutrition. UOC. Barcelona.
Prof. Marcelo Álvarez. Researcher and project manager. Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL). Buenos Aires.
Dr. Ricardo Ávila. Director. Departamento de Estudios del Hombre. Universidad de Guadalajara, México.
Mrs. Pepa Aymamí. Director. Institut Català de la Cuina i de la Cultura Gastronòmica (FICCG). Barcelona.
Dr. Miriam Bertran. Senior Lecturer, School of Nutrition, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, UAM-Xoximilco. México D.F. México.
Dr. Luis Cantarero. Senior Lecturer. Universidad de Zaragoza.
Prof. Dr. Jesús Contreras. Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, School of Geography and History, Universitat de Barcelona. Director. Observatori de l’Alimentació (ODELA). Barcelona.
Dr. Sandro Dernini. Researcher, Sustainable Food Systems Programme. FAO. Rome.
Prof. Frédéric Duhart. Lecturer, Basque Culinary Center. General Secretary. International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF). Donostia/Paris.
Dr. Pilar Garcia Lorda. Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, UOC. Barcelona
Dr. Igor de Garine. Emeritus Research Director, CNRS. Honorary President of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF). Paris/Lasseube, France.
Prof. José M. Iglesias. Sociedad de Estudios Internacionales (SEI) and World Gastronomy Institute. Madrid.
Dr. Julián López García. Department of Social Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Madrid.
Dr. Helen Macbeth. Senior Lecturer (oxon.) Oxford Brookes University. Oxford.
Dr. Lorenzo Mariano. Facultad de Enfermería y Terapia Ocupacional. Universidad de Extremadura. Cáceres.
Dr. Oriol Miralbell. Senior Lecturer, CETT School of Tourism, Hospitalyty and gastronomy. Barcelona.
Prof. Dr. Enric Olivé. Director, UNESCO Chair on the Mediterranean Cultural Dialogue. Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona.
Dr. Fabio Parasecoli. Lecturer. Food and Gastronomy program. New College of New York. New York, USA.
Mrs. Cristina Petracchi. Capacity Development Officer (E-Learning), FAO. Rome.
Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Poulain. Professor of Sociology, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail. Director, Institut Supérieur du Tourisme, de l'Hôtellerie et de l'Alimentation (ISTHIA). Director of the chair on Food Studies: Food, Cultures and Health, Taylor's University. Toulouse, France / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mrs. Claudia Roden. Food writer. London/New York.
Dr. Mariluz Rodrigo. Senior Lecturer. University of Zaragoza. Chair of the Spanish and Portuguese delegation of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF-Spain). Zaragoza.
Dr. Francesc Saigí. Program Director. Health Sciences Department, UOC. Barcelona
Prof. Dr. Lluís Serra-Majem. Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences (Public Healh), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Director of the UNESCO Chair in Research, Planning and Development of local Health Systems. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Mr. Damià Serrano. Barcelona Province Council (Tourism & Wine Tourism). Barcelona.
Dr. Laura Solanilla. Senior Lecturer and Programmes Director. Arts and Humanities Department, UOC. Barcelona.
Dr. Jordi Tresserras. University of Barcelona. Director of the IBERTUR Network (Member of UNESCO-UNITWIN) and the Laboratory of Tourism, Creativity and Heritage (LABPACT). Tossa de Mar (Girona).
Dr. José A. Vázquez-Medina. Observatorio de la Alimentación de México. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, UAM-Xoximilco. México D.F., México.