Lectures

(only lectures in the public domain are listed below)

• "Key lessons in innovation management in the Dairy industry" (given in the Spanish language). Keynote lecture at the pan-American congress of the Dairy Industry. Costa Rica, April 2008.
• "Applied European food law in industrial innovation". Part of the series on EU Food Law in Practice. (Given in the Spanish language). Masterclass at the University of Costa Rica. April 2008.
• "EU food law in product development". Lecture at Wageningen University. 2006 and 2007.
• "Using Health and Science to Market Foods in Europe". Lecture at the Marcus Evans Conference: 'Harnessing NPD & PLM to Drive Innovation in the Food & Beverage Industry'. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 18, 2005
• "EU Food Law in practice: Introduction to Food Law in Product Development". Lecture at Wageningen University. 2005.
• "A practical EU Food Law Lecture for Industrial Food Developers: Food Law & Product Development". Lecture at Wageningen University. December 2, 2004.
• "Getting to Solid Health Claims for Functional Foods in Europe". Lecture at Hi Japan 2004. October 6, 2004.
• "State of the European Functional Foods Market 2004". Lecture at Hi Japan 2004. October 6, 2004.
• "European Food Legislation for Industrial Food Developers". Lecture at Wageningen University. December 2, 2003.
• "THE NEW FRONTIER: The role and challenges of international products development". Invited lecture at the conference "East meets West". Anuga 2003. Cologne, Germany, October 14th, 2003.
• "Strategies for development of processed foods in the West European food market". Presented to a Latin American government mission in The Hague, The Netherlands, April 15th, 2002.
• "Highlights of the health ingredient and functional foods European market update 2000". Presented at the 8th international congress on Engineering and Food (ICEF 8) in Puebla, Mexico April 10, 2000.
• "Outsourcing food R&D; yes or no?. Presented at the product development conference "Communication and Creation. Recipe for innovation?", Ede, The Netherlands, October 1st, 1999
• "Latest developments in the nutraceutical and functional foods markets. A European update on market, technological and legislative issues". Presented at the Nutraceutical Technology Europe conference, Brussels, Belgium March 4th 1999
• "South America: Macro-economic aspects; Gist-brocades B.V. in Latin America". Fi Food Ingredient Seminar, 1996 at the Food Ingredients Europe exposition 1996 in Paris, France.
• "Influence of the enzymatic modification of the non-starchy polysaccharide fractions on the baking properties of reconstituted Rye Flour". Annual Meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Las Vegas, USA, 1987.
• "Vergleichende Untersuchungen über der Einfluß von Cellulasen auf das Backverhalten von Roggenmehlen". 34th Annual Symposium for Cereal Chemistry, Detmold, Germany. 1983