Ms Eleonora Dupouy, Doctor in Food Science and Technologies and Associate Professor in Public Nutrition. Since 2009 holds the position of Food Safety and Consumer Protection Officer with the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO), Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, Budapest, Hungary – responsible for planning, leading and coordinating the implementation of the regular and field programme in Food Safety and Nutrition, including provision of technical support, policy advice, and capacity development.
Before joining FAO, Ms Dupouy held the position of Head of Food Science and Nutrition Department at the Technical University of Moldova, taught courses of Human Nutrition, Food Toxicology and Safety and conducted research with focus on new foods development with increased functionality, reduction of anti-nutritional properties of new functional ingredients of plant-origin.