The Coordinating Council is made up of the industry's most senior business leaders and is the driving force behind FIA's mission to promote sustainable growth and support regional progressive policies and smart regulations that are science-based and relevant to countries across Asia.
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FIA Council Members
"Being a part of FIA creates opportunities to collaborate with FIA members, governments, and other key stakeholders to achieve our common goal of addressing health and nutrition concerns, smart regulation, safe food, sustainability and resilience."
Maurizio Brusadelli
Executive Vice President & President
Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa Mondelez International (FIA President)
"The fact that we have built over 40 members, and that we are able to engage and build partnerships with stakeholders of all levels on critical issues is testimony to FIA’s capability and the trust it has built with multiple sectors."
Pascal de Petrini
Senior Vice President
Non-executive Chairman Asia Danone (FIA Vice President)
Matthew Echols
Vice President
Public Affairs, Communications & Sustainability
Asia Pacific The Coca-Cola Company
Franck Monmont
Managing Director
Starches, Sweeteners & Texturizers Cargill
Anand Sundaresan
Regional Vice President
Human Nutrition & Health
Asia Pacific DSM
Hadi Abdullah
Public Affairs Coordinator Asia, Middle East & Africa FrieslandCampina
Belinda Tumbers
Managing Director
Asia, Middle East & Africa Snacks Kellogg Company
John Cahalane
President & CEO Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa Kerry
Patrick Gantier
General Manager Mars Wrigley Asia
Chris Hogg
Vice President - Société Des Produits Nestlé S.A. Head Of Communications - Zone Asia, Oceania & Sub-Saharan Africa Nestlé
Tan Wern Yuen
Chief Executive Officer
Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand & China PepsiCo
Pradeep Pant
Honorary Advisor
Matt Kovac
Executive Director Food Industry Asia
Public Affairs Committee
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC) shapes FIA’s strategy as to how we collaborate and partner with policymakers, and other key opinion leaders throughout the region across a range of issues from smart regulations to sustainable solutions through to progressive health and nutrition policies.
The committee is made up of the most experienced and best public affairs professionals who support FIA to develop and implement strategies and campaigns to promote, for example, the value of self-regulation and private-public partnerships across complex issues such as obesity, plastics and packaging, and resilient supply chains. The committee is responsible for developing and approving processes and strategies that strengthen the industry’s ability to monitor and respond to emerging issues.
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Science & Technical Committee
The Science & Technical Committee (STC) is made up of senior regional regulatory and scientific affairs professionals who work across multiple complex issues. They are responsible for developing FIA's smart regulation & safe food strategies as well as reviewing all relevant science and regulatory issues that impact industry now and into the future.
The committee leads a range of issues from e-commerce to standards through to ingredient regulations and barriers to trade
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Working Groups
The FIA Working Groups act as advisory groups to address core issues at an expert level. FIA operates 12 Working Groups that communicates on a regular basis via email, and convenes either face-to-face or via teleconferences at least once a quarter.
The China Working Group was established to conduct all of FIA's work in Mandarin with in-country members and to reach regional alignment on key issues which form the focus areas for FIA i.e. Health & Nutrition, Smart Regulations & Safe Food, and Sustainability. We support FIA members with collaboration and advocacy activities in China and aim to strengthen information sharing for members on the dynamics of food policy and regulatory landscape in China and the Asia region.
The Codex Coordination Working Group was established in 2016 after FIA was granted its official Codex observer member status. The working group's objective is to monitor the priority issues in Codex and ensure discussion documents and position papers for FIA’s priority issues are effectively channeled through it. The working group is actively engaged in discussions on the following priority issues and Codex Committees that were identified by FIA members: Food additives (CCFA), Food Labelling (CCFL), Contaminants (CCCF), Food Hygiene (CCFH), Nutrition (CCNFSDU), and Asia regional discussions (CCAsia).
The E-Commerce Working Group assists members in monitoring the food e-commerce regulatory and food safety frameworks across Asia and contribute to the development of food e-commerce guidelines, standards and best practices by consolidating industry views to respective legislative bodies.
The Expert Working Group on Halal was established to enable the industry's voice to be heard and its positions made known to the halal policy-setting agencies, particularly for the purpose of reducing overall regulatory complexity and associated compliance costs as well as improve intra-regional trade. FIA evaluates relevant halal standards and the requirements, identifies elements that are different, and provides input and assessment for more harmonised standards.
The Food Safety Working Group is designed to inform, support and build capacity across relevant regulations to build more robust food safety systems in countries across Asia. The current focus of the Working Group is to support food safety capacity building efforts in key developing markets with partners at the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC and ASEAN.
The Ingredients Working Group helps address the key challenges and issues related to food ingredients. We provide recommendations and guidance to industry and policymakers to ensure a fair regulatory environment and to facilitate innovation. The working group focuses on issues including, but not limited to, additives, processing aids, novel food, health functional claims, flavours, proteins and clean label.
This is a combined working group that supports FIA’s efforts to promote voluntary front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling across Asia while monitoring the regulatory environment to support government's introduction of various labelling schemes scientifically. This working group also sets strategies on key nutrition-related topics, such as sugar, sodium and fat related policies, nutrient profiling, and industry common nutrition criteria as well as looking at the opportunities to encourage and promote healthier diets and related consumer education to support such initiatives.
The working group sets strategies and aligns members on how to address the increasing problems associated with marine and ocean waste, and the role that packaging plays. Part of the working group’s focus is to build strong fact-based knowledge and be a platform convenor to bring parties together to create solutions across the packaging value chain. This includes a dedicated communications plan as well as forming partnerships with international organisations that support with resourcing and driving action with tangible results.
The working group provides analysis of the various trends on marketing to children and pushes for more companies to adhere to voluntary measures so as not to advertise to under 13s. FIA also monitors and advises companies on responsible and healthier marketing initiatives and how that can support consumers to be more informed and improve diets.
The working group develops a wide range of evidence-based information on sweeteners and sugars by providing sound science-based information to stakeholders and partnerships with credible stakeholders, while monitoring the regulatory environment.
The working group monitors and analyzes the full range of taxation methods and fiscal measures that can implemented by government's across Asia and how they impact industry.
The working group focuses on delivering impactful policy, trade and regulatory outcomes in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal through a cross-collaborative approach between public affairs and regulatory affairs professionals at a regional and in-country level.
There are many reasons to become an FIA member, from receiving regular regulatory and policy updates, to engagement with governments across the key issues and networking with your peers.
