Next Food Collective
Manfred Aben possesses extensive experience in research and development within the food and personal care sectors, holding numerous leadership roles at Unilever since February 1995, including Global VP Nutrition & Icecream S&T and R&D Director for various regions and categories. In addition to a long tenure as a Non Executive Board Member for Unilever Netherlands Holding, Aben serves on the supervisory board of Next Food Collective and has held board membership positions with TKI Agri & Food and TiFN. Aben is also involved with VNO-NCW and PhotonDelta as a member and advisory board member, respectively. Aben holds a PhD in Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering from the University of Amsterdam, alongside a master's degree from the same institution.
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Next Food Collective
Next Food Collective is a public-private partnership in which four organisations join forces: TiFN, Sustainable Food Initiative (SFI), Carbohydrate Competence Center (CCC) and Protein Competence Center (PCC). The mission of Next Food Collective is to accelerate the pace of sustainable and healthy food innovation. Bringing together multinationals, small and medium size enterprises and knowledge institutes, Next Food Collective will provide a new impulse to public-private partnerships in the agri-food domain. This new collaboration will enable its participants to translate sustainable and healthy food innovations more efficiently to products, services and/or policies and will coordinate large national and international funding applications.