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Adeline Lescanne
- CEO of Nutriset, the company that makes the well-known RUTF, Plumpy’Nut.
- Development engineer by training with expertise in sociology and rural development, and holds degrees from Paris and Wageningen at the University of Netherlands
- Unique interdisciplinary perspective bridges food science, nutrition research, humanitarian action, and sustainable development policies
- Nutriset as a business has been the recipient of many national and international awards, including the Patent for Humanity Award from the US Patent Office
- Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014, made a Knight of the Order of Merit in 2016
- Chosen to be the Olympic torchbearer for the Normandy region in the lead up to the Paris Olympics in 2024