Anti-hunger activist, agricultural engineer with a PhD on Agricultural Sciences in Louvain (Belgium) and food commoner with field- and policy-level experience on Food Security Policies and Programmes, Right to Food and Food Sovereignty in Latin America, Africa and Europe. While working with the EU, FAO and several NGOs, he has lived in Georgia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Guatemala, Italy, Chile, Nicaragua and Belgium. His current research seeks to understand the governance mechanisms of food transitions and the interaction between personal motivations and institutional frameworks in self-regulated civic collective actions and formal governmental food systems. I am also developing a normative narrative that considers food as a commons, by understanding how do people value the economic and non-economic dimensions of food and how these worldviews shape the acceptable and non-acceptable policy beliefs. Project-wise, he is currently involved in four research endeavours: (a) social experimentations and policy innovations affecting food transitions in Belgium, (b) interactions between personal values and collective institutions in European countries, (c) developing an open commons-based transition for the food system in Ecuador and (d) a transdisciplinary research on technical innovations, policy beliefs and political coalitions in Guatemala’s food security system. Passionate about cooking, medieval history, rare plants and birdwatching.