John Lupien

John Lupien is Director of the Food and Nutrition Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy. Mr. Lupien carried out his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, then joined the FDA in 1960, where he served as an investigator and compliance officer. In 1970, Mr. Lupien joined the FAO as a Nutrition officer, holding several other positions before returning to the FDA in Washington as Director of the International Affairs Staff in 1980. Mr. Lupien has been with the Food and Nutrition Division of FAO since 1986.

In his FDA and FAO work Mr. Lupien has been involved in extensive nutrition-related policy formulation work. He has also carried out in-depth nutrition, food quality and food safety surveys and prepared and implemented nutrition-related projects in about 50 countries.

Lupien was implicated in the covert funding by the food industry (ILSI and WSRO) of the Expert Consultation on Carbohdrates run by FAO/WHO in rome in 1997.

Affiliations

• European Food Information Council chair of scientific advisory board