Pawan Agarwal

Chief Executive & Founder

Food Future Foundation (Ex. IAS Govt. Of India - Ex. Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Logistics, Ex. CEO FSSAI)

Pawan Agarwal is the Chief Executive and Founder of the Food Future Foundation. This Foundation works in food system transformation with a focus on creating good food through food literacy in schools. He also provides strategic advice to international NGOs, universities, corporates, and startups in food and nutrition, education and skill development, logistics, system leadership, and digital technologies. After 36 years of distinguished service as a civil servant and he retired as Secretary to the Government of India. He was CEO of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSA), wherein he steered transformative changes in the food and nutrition space. He led several important changes in the country’s higher and professional education sector while serving in the Planning Commission (now NITI Aayog), UGC, and MHRD (now Ministry of Education). Pawan Agarwal is a reform-minded, purpose-driven, and result-oriented leader with a strong belief in systems thinking. He also played a key role in the management of COVID in Wave one as Secretary, Ministry of Consumers Affairs. During his tenure as CEO of FSSAI, he launched the Eat Right India movement which was declared the top visionary for the Food System Vision 2050 prize by the Rockefeller Foundation.

 

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Dr. Chetan Mehndiratta

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