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