Walter Belik

Walter Belik is Full Professor of Economics at UNICAMP - University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil, retired from 2019. He is Ph.D. and M.S. in Agriculture Economics, B.A. in Business Administration, developing studies on food and bioenergy. Prof. Belik was Visiting Fellow at University College, London, England and also at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and Guest Lecturer at University of Kassel, Germany. He was Coordinator of Center for Studies and Research on Food (NEPA) at UNICAMP, Brazil, for five years and Director of Confucius Institute at UNICAMP for three Years. Professor Belik was one of

the coordinators of Zero Hunger Project, wide academic research that turned into public policy in Brazil from 2003, and he was member of the National Council for Food Security and Nutrition. He coordinates the Initiative Latin America and Caribbean without Hunger, project based on FAO regional office in Santiago, Chile) during two years. Since 2013 Prof. Belik is member of High-Level Panel of Experts from the Committee on World Food Security (UN). As voluntary, he is President of “Prato Cheio” Food Bank in Sao Paulo and founder and Vice General Director of Zero Hunger Institute.