Prof. Dr. oec.troph. Carola Strassner

Academic History

• MBA at Henley Management College, Henley-on-Thames, UK, (now: Henley Business School at the University of Reading, UK) http://www.henley.reading.ac.uk
• Ph.D. (Home Economics and Nutrition Science) at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, http://www.uni-giessen.de
• M.Sc. (Food Science) at the University of Natal (Durban), South Africa (now: University of KwaZulu-Natal), http://www.ukzn.ac.za
• B.Sc. (Biochemistry and Microbiology) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, http://www.uct.ac.za

Occupational History

• Managing Director at a'verdis, Muenster, Germany http://www.a-verdis.com
• Managing Director at OeGS, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
• Head of Research & Development at PreCon GmbH & Co. KG, Bickenbach, Germany 

Memberships

• FQH -International Research Network for Food Quality and Health http://www.fqhresearch.org
• ISOFAR - International Society of Organic Agriculture Research http://www.isofar.org
• WPHNA - World Public Health Nutrition Association http://wphna.org
• The German Nutrition Society DGE - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernaehrung e.V., http://www.dge.de
• Mentoring programme at the University of Konstanz http://www.mentoringprogramm-konstanz.de

Committees

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Werner-and-Elisabeth-Kollath-Foundation (2014 - ) www.eden-stiftung.de/kollath.html
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Eden-Foundation www.eden-stiftung.de/eden.html

• Member of the Management Board of FQH (2014 - ) http://www.fqhresearch.org

• Member of the Alnatura Working Committee Quality (2013 - ) http://www.alnatura.de

• Round Table "Dialogue Environment & Agriculture" of the Ministry for Climate Protection of the German State of North Rhine-Westfalia (MKULNV) (2011 - ) http://www.umwelt.nrw.de

• Member of the advisory committee "Sustainability" Aramark Holdings GmbH Co. KG (2011 - 2015)
• Task Force "Practice" in the research project Educational and Sustainable Consumption (BINK - Bildungsinstitutionen und nachhaltiger Konsum) (2009 - 2011) http://www.konsumkultur.de/index.php?id=2&L=1
• Member of the judging panel for the Frankfurt Prize (2014) of the catering trade magazine gv-praxis http://www.gv-praxis.de
• Member of the judging panel for the Research Award Organic Foods (2014, 2015) http://www.forschungspreis-bio-lebensmittel.de
• Member of the judging panel for Demeter Product of the Year 2009 http://www.demeter.de
• Member of the judging panel for the competition Genussregion Niederrhein 2009 (something like Epicurean Delights from the Lower Rhine Region, the best in the districts Kleve and Wesel) http://www.gutes-vom-niederrhein.de/