Vincent Doumeizel
Vice President, Food Beverage and Sustainability

About

With 20 years experience in the Food Industry, Vincent is now Senior Adviser at United
Nations Global Compact on Oceans as well as director for the Food Programme for the
Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Vincent leads the charitable objectives of the Foundation
through the funding of innovative projects to support the food supply chain. Partnering with
UN, FAO, The World Bank, WWF, Universities, NGO’s and large brands, Vincent led and
released the “Seaweed Manifesto” in a call to scale up the seaweed industry in order to
address some of the world most important challenges (hunger, global warming, pollution,
poverty etc..). Vincent is now co-leading the first international platform for Seaweed
Stakeholders, the Safe Seaweed Coalition. He is also the lead food contact for UN Global
Compact and as such actively supports the organisation of the UN Food System Summit next
fall.