F. Xavier Medina

Professor of Social Anthropology at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and co-director of the food and nutrition research group of the Health Sciences Department at UOC. He is also director of the UNESCO Chair on Food, Culture and Development, and the World Chair of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF). A highly specialized researcher with over two decades of experience in culture and food, he has also authored and edited over fifteen books and one hundred scientific articles