Dr. Aparna Venkatesh - Collaborative Innovation Lead - BUHLER

Aparna Venkatesh is the Collaborative Innovation Lead at Bühler for the region of Southeast Asia & Oceania. In this role, she leads innovation strategy in emerging opportunities for sustainable foods and scouts for novel agri-food technology applications with external partners in the ecosystem to develop purposeful and high-impact transformations for the future of food.

Her career spanned a decade in the public sector with A*STAR. As head of A*STAR Enterprise’s Agri-Food and Nutrition division, Aparna played a key role in supporting the scientific, business, regulatory and strategy aspects of building up Singapore’s alternative protein capabilities, enabling local food production as part of the nation's food resilience agenda. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from NTU, Singapore, and a PhD in immunology from the Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy.