Vincent Doumeizel

Vice President, Food Beverage and Sustainability, Lloyd’s Register Foundation; London, UK

Vincent Doumeizel is the vice president, food, beverage and sustainability for the food programme for Lloyd’s Register Foundation as well as editor of Seaweed Revolution: A Manifesto for a Sustainable Future). With 20 years’ experience in the food industry, Vincent is now also senior advisor on oceans at United Nations Global Compact. Vincent leads the charitable objectives of the foundation through the funding of innovative projects to drive safety in the food supply chain. Partnering with UN, FAO, The World Bank, WWF, universities, NGO’s and large brands, Vincent led and released the “Seaweed Manifesto” in a call to scale up the seaweed industry to address some of the world’s most important challenges (hunger, global warming, pollution, poverty and many more). Vincent is now co-leading the first international platform for seaweed stakeholders, the Safe Seaweed Coalition. He is also a member of the expert panel, working to define the algae strategy at the European Commission and supporting the preparation of the UN Food System Summit in fall of 2021. (London, UK) @doumeizel