Dr. h.c. Huub Lelieveld
GHI Board
Based in the Netherlands
Prof. dr. h.c. Huub Lelieveld, formerly with Unilever, Founder and Past-President (2007 to 2024) of the Global Harmonization Initiative, Past-President of the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST); Founder and Past-President of the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG); Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST); Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT); he served on the Governing Council of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) and has been Chair of the Nonthermal Processing and International divisions of IFT. At Unilever, he was responsible for hygienic processing and plant design and novel processing technologies. He is editor or co-editor of many books, on food hygiene, food safety and food processing technologies. He also wrote many chapters for such books as well as hundreds of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and in relevant magazines. He is a Visiting Professor at the National University of Food Technologies in Kiev, Ukraine.