Nestlé Foundation

for the study of problems of nutrition in the world

The Council

The Council of the Foundation consists of five Council Members and Advisors. All Council Members and Advisors are internationally well-known scientists with a specific expertise in different fields of nutrition. The Council is self-constituting and operates independently. The Foundation is directed jointly by the Director and the President of the Foundation.

Petra S. Hueppi, MD

President, Nestlé Foundation

  • Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, Child Development Disorders, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Virgilio P. Carnielli, MD, PhD

  • Professor of Neonatal Pediatrics, Department of Odontostomatologic and Specialized Clinical Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Dominique Darmaun, MD, PhD

  • University Hospital of Nantes, INRA U 1280, CRNH, Hotel-Dieu, Nantes, France
  • Nemours Children’s Clinic, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Anura Kurpad, MD, PhD

  • Professor & Head of Physiology, Head IAEA Collaborating Centre, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India

Anna Lartey, PhD

  • Professor of Nutrition Department of Nutrition and Food Science (P/T) University of Ghana Legon, Ghana

Ann Prentice CBE PhD

  • Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow
  • MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Former Director MRC Human Nutrition Research
    Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge, UK


Director

Thomas Hauser, Dipl. Ing. ETH



Secretarial Offices and Project Management

Charlotte Terrier



Auditor

Ernst & Young AG, Bern, Switzerland