Italian Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Vice President of the Center of Social Research on the Mediterranean Diet (MedEatResearch) at the University of Naples S.O.B.
Science graduate from the University of Lausanne and a graduate in nutrition from the University of Cambridge (GB), carried out research at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne (Switzerland); 21st International prize for modern food, on the theme of sports nutrition (1988); Prize for Sports Science from the President of the International Olympic Committee for his work on carnitine (1993). Expert in outdoor endurance sport.
Joined the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) as the Director of the Large-scale food fortification in 2011. Before this, he spent five years in Africa and Central Asia providing expertise on national health systems and nutrition programs.
Curious by nature, Olivier Mottaz has alternated as a writer of erotica for hotlines, forecaster for betting on horseracing, teacher and researcher in the history of art, production manager for Editions Slatkine and editor of a platform for leisure activities. In 2013, he founded Editions Stentor. Since May 2017, he is Chief Editor of the Alimentarium eMagazine.
Annabelle is an archeologist and a historian of antiquity. Since 2008, she has collaborated with several Swiss media and companies, including 24 heures, Loisirs.ch and Coopération, both as a writer and specialist in digital communication. She was Chief Editor of the Alimentarium eMagazine from 2014 until 2017.
Marie Ange Unbekandt lived in Mexico for four years. During this time, she fell in love with Mexican food and furthered her knowledge of it by surveying markets and meeting with Mexican chefs and families. She shares her discoveries on her blog www.saveursmexicaines.com. She currently lives in the suburbs of Paris, where she works as a food photographer.
