Carlo Petrini the founder and driving force of Slow Food, has led the movement to great international visibility. Among his many achievements is Terra Madre, a groundbreaking meeting of 5000 food producers from all over the world, held every two years in Turin to discuss common problems and pursue possible solutions. He is also responsible for the creation of Slow Food's University of Gastronomic Sciences, the first academic institution to offer an interdisciplinary approach to food studies. Carlo is the author of several books and as a journalist contributes frequently to many newspapers and publications. His skills as a communicator and the originality and importance of his message, implemented through Slow Food projects round the world, have aroused the interest of international opinion leaders and media. In 2004 he was named a 'European Hero' by Time magazine and in January 2008 he was the only Italian to appear in the list of ‘50 People Who Could Save the World’ drawn up by The Guardian.
The Slow Food UK office is based in the heart of London. We are delighted to be located in an area with such a strong food history and our neighbours include Neal’s Yard Dairy and Monmouth Coffee Company. SFUK Contact Information: HQ and Registered office: 6 Neal's Yard, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9DP. Registered Company Number: 6849325
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7099 1132 Fax: +44 (0)870 490 9110 Email: info@slowfood.org.uk
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Slow Food UK Trust Team
CEO: Catherine Gazzoli info@slowfood.org.uk Catherine Gazzoli leads Slow Food UK Trust and offers work experience and expertise in international development and management. She has worked on sustainability issues for indigenous farmers during her time with the United Nations at the Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agricultural Development, and in Australia, helped to improve micro-credit opportunities for Aboriginal communities as the Director of Fundraising. She has led global projects for the United Nations Secretariat and the United Nations Development Programme in partnership with the African Union and the Organization of American States. She holds a BA in Political Science, an MBA and a Masters in Information Communications Technologies. Ark of Taste Coordinator: Sue Braithwaite s.braithwaite@slowfood.org.uk (Slow Food Taste Adventure, stands and bursary applications) Address: Prickley Top, Martley, Worcs, WR6 6QR. Telephone: 01886 812808 Fax: 01886 812898Sue Braithwaite is our Ark of Taste Coordinator and offers over ten years of expertise in food education and event planning. She runs our event schedule for The Taste Adventure, acts as focal point for our Ark and Page 12 of 22 Presidia, manages the event planning and selection of producers for the Slow Food Pavilion at the BBC Good Food Shows as well as leads our taste education workshops. Membership Manager: Antonietta Rosiello a.rosiello@slowfood.org.uk Antonietta manages our membership service centre. She has a background in marketing and brand positioning developed in a renowned company based in New Bond Street, London. Antonietta grew up in the Italian region of Puglia and holds a BSc in Communications,and an MSc in Business and Institutional Communications.
Events Coordinator: Alice Dickie a.dickie@slowfood.org.uk
Alice Dickie coordinates a variety of events which help bring our producers to a wider audience. Alice has a degree in French and Italian and first-hand experience of the issues of sustainability and local cultivation methods having grown up on a sheep farm in Scotland. She comes from years in the corporate restaurant and food pr industry and working for Slow Food is a career change within the food sector she has wanted to make for a long time. She will especially work to capture ‘the story’ of our groups in Scotland.
Media Relations: Kate Johns kate@nudgepr.co.uk
Nudge handle all of Slow Food UK's external PR and Media activities.
Financial Officer: Idris Tahir i.tahir@slowfood.org.uk
Idris Tahir is our Financial Officer with professional accounting qualifications from ACCA and AAT. Idris has a wide range of experience in commerce, banking and voluntary sectors and has worked for private companies, charities and well known international banks.
Slow Food UK Trust Board of Trustees
SFUK has eight board members who meet four times a year. The CEO meets at least once a quarter with the Slow Food Advisors and consults with them regularly on their area of expertise (media/press and producer engagement).
GERRY DANBY (Chair) is a barrister and computer science graduate. He joined the Greater London Council in 1984 where he was responsible for voluntary sector funding projects. There followed a period with the London Strategic Policy Committee before moving to the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council where for 10 years until 2006 he was Director of Legal Services, responsible for a team of more than 50 lawyers and a diverse range of public services and has since worked as a consultant. He has spoken at a wide range of seminars and national conferences, in particular on matters of governance and ethics in the public sector. Gerry also has an MBA.
ALAN ROE (Vice Chair) is the founder and Director of ARA Associates Limited, focusing on their strategic vision, branding and marketing, business plans and commercial strategies. Alan has worked on many projects, for both private clients, trusts and charities, as well as regional and local governments both abroad and in the UK. He has also worked with Garden Organic, and is a Director of its commercial Board. Alan was the Commercial Director with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and continued as a non-executive Director until 2008. He has been a Director in several major companies, including Bertelsmann, W H Smith, De Agostini and Hammicks, and also created the Publishing Division.
KEVIN KIBBLE has been involved in fundraising and the voluntary sector for the past 12 years, leading debate in the sector, championing innovation and raising the profile of fundraising and governance. Kevin has spoken at numerous conferences in addition to hosting the Fundraising Forums (Chatham House events). Kevin is now Director of Whitewater Creative Services Ltd and Managing Director of Our Lasting Tribute.
JULIET KINDERSLEY founded Dorling Kindersley in 1974, with her husband Peter and Christopher Dorling. In 1989 she founded The Sheepdrove Trust where their initial grants went to Spiritual Care for the Dying project and community projects in Lambeth (Kids Company). They support the New Economic Foundation's work on Clone Towns and supermarket domination on poor communities. They fund research in areas of nutrition, GMOs, climate change, animal welfare and organic systems.
PRUE LEITH OBE founded the Leith’s Good Food Group, Leith’s Restaurant and Leith’s School of Food and Wine. She has been a food columnist for the Daily Mail, Sunday Express, the Guardian and the Daily Mirror, has written 12 cookbooks and is a judge on the Great British Menu BBC1 series. Prue has been deeply involved in promoting healthy school food, establishing and chairing Focus on Food and the Hoxton Apprentice. Prue has been a non-executive director of British Rail, Safeway plc, Halifax plc, Woolworths and Whitbread plc. Prue is the Chair of the School Food Trust, and alongside her OBE in 1989, she was Veuve Clicquot Business-Woman of the Year in 1990.
CRAIG SAMS founded Whole Earth Foods, the organic food company with his brother Gregory in 1967. In 1991 he founded Green & Black's Organic Chocolate with his wife Josephine Fairley, whose Maya Gold chocolate was the first product to carry the Fairtrade Mark. In 2004 he created the 'Nomato' range of tomato-free products. Craig is author of: About Macrobiotics, The Brown Rice Cookbook, The Little Food Book and writes a monthly column in Natural Product News. He has been both Honorary Treasurer and Chairman of the Soil Association. Craig operates Stonelynk Wood, an organic chestnut coppice for biochar, and runs Judges Organic Bakery (est.1826). He is co-founder of Carbon Gold Ltd, a biochar project and development marketing company.
PETER JACKSON, our Financial Director, founded Organico, an organic wine company and is a founder member and convivium leader of Slow Food Cumbria. He is a Trustee and Currently Vice Chairman and Chairman of Finance; Kelsick’s Educational Foundation (established in 1723) in Ambleside, the Founder Director and Company Secretary of Tourism and Conservation Partnership, Trustee of the Brathay Hall Trust, and Chairman of the Armitt Trust, Ambleside. He is currently embarking on a part time MA at Lancaster University on ‘Leadership for Sustainability’.
SILVIA MONASTEROLO is the representative of Slow Food International on Slow Food UK’s board. A talented linguist, she is a veteran of the Slow Food organisation, having helped put together the first edition of Terra Madre, and is now handling some of the most important aspects of the Slow Food movement such as assisting with the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity and liaising with Slow Food National Associations in the United States and Europe.
Slow Food Advisors
JOANNA BLYTHMAN is a food writer, investigative journalist and broadcaster and author of The Food We Eat and Shopped.
CHARLES CAMPION has written about restaurants and food for London’s Evening Standard for over a decade and is a patron of Oxford Gastronomica.
MATTHEW FORT is a food writer and television presenter and became Food Editor of The Guardian in 1989, a title he holds to this day, and has published several books.
RANDOLPH HODGSON OBE is the owner of the award winning Neal's Yard Dairy, champion of British Farmhouse Cheeses, and one of the pioneers in rejuvenating Borough Market.
SARA JAYNE STANES OBE is Director of the Academy of Culinary Arts and Chairman of the Academy of Chocolate; food writer and author of award winning 'Chocolate: the Definitive Guide.'
