Giuseppe Luca CAPODIECI
Kraainem
Summary
Regulatory affairs professional with comprehensive experience in navigating complex regulatory landscapes and ensuring compliance. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, with adaptable approach to changing needs. Skilled in regulatory strategy, risk assessment, and policy development. Valued for reliability, analytical mindset, and effective communication in high-stakes environments.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical and Regulatory Manager
FEFANA
03.2016 - Current
- Business Overview: EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures
- Website: http://fefana.org/
- Managing and co-ordinating Expert and Strategic Groups (Regulatory Affairs, Sustainability, Classification, Labelling and Packaging, Organic Farming practices, etc.) and advocacy of industry’s interests through contacts with EU and national competent authorities
- Representing the association, preparing working documents, briefings, debriefings, delivering presentations, building and maintaining relationships with EU institutions and other international organisations (e.g. FAO, IFIF), position papers, analyses, editing for agendas, background papers and reports, etc
- Responsible for scientific/technical files relevant to the industry and follows up on feed and food regulatory developments impacting on the strategic interests of the FEFANA membership, including those pertaining to safety, sustainability and innovation
- Actively participated in industry associations, staying current on emerging trends and changes in the regulatory landscape.
- Developed strategies to maintain ongoing compliance as new regulations were introduced or updated, ensuring continuous adaptability.
- Mentored junior staff members, fostering talent development within the regulatory department.
Advisor for Food Policy & Sustainability / Assistant to the Secretary General
European Livestock And Meat Trades Union (UECBV)
10.2007 - 02.2016
- Business Overview: European Livestock And Meat Trades Union
- Website: http://www.uecbv.eu/en/
- Providing policy advice and technical assistance towards the development of advocacy strategies and the work of the experts of UECBV working groups: meat industry section, sustainability matters, and veterinary issues
- Representing the association, preparing working documents, briefings, managing the Working Group meetings, delivering presentations, building and maintaining relationships with EU institutions (including the European Parliament) and other international organisations (e.g. FAO, IMS), position papers, analyses, drafting meeting minutes and reports, etc
- Responsible for covering EU policies related to food information to consumers, innovation and new technologies, biotechnologies, food-feed safety aspects, sustainability issues (environmental, ethical & product quality issues), research
Assistant Policy Officer
European Commission
03.2007 - 09.2007
- Business Overview: European Commission, Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection (SANCO) Genetically Modified Organisms Unit
- Modernization and maintenance of Community Register of GM Food and Feed
- Participating in expert meetings, drafting documents and preparing working documents
European Commission Trainee
European Commission
10.2006 - 02.2007
- Business Overview: European Commission, Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection (SANCO), Unit Chemical contaminants and pesticides
- Impact assessment (IA, also related to chemical and microbiological contaminants)
- Participating in expert meetings, drafting documents and preparing working documents
- Attended training courses to build understanding of IA processes
Free-lance consultant, part time
Agri-food companies
09.2004 - 01.2005
- Labelling for several agri-food products (bakery products, biscuits and sweet creams, conserves, jams, honey) for European and US market
- Drafting Nutritional labelling, detection of shelf life
- Assisted clients in navigating complex industry legislation
University Research and Collaboration
University of Catania
05.2004 - 11.2004
- Business Overview: Catania university research, Faculty of Agriculture, Economic Department of Agrarian Economics and Economic Sciences (DISEAE)
- Working in a research team carrying out some territorial surveys and analysis of the value-chain in the rural area of olive/pistachios cultivation
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
Education
Ph.D. - agri-food economy
University of Catania
Catania (Italy)10.2006
DSPU (Post-graduate diploma) - Political economy and public choice issues in Agricultural and Food Systems
CIHEAM - International Centre For Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies
Montpellier (France)05.2006
Master of Science - Science and Food Technology
University of Catania
10.2003
Skills
- Technical background: knowledge and understanding about food-feed industry, EU policies
- Leadership: manager for a number of projects/initiatives
- Coordination: able to coordinate members of associations and industry experts in order to reach a single position and deliver results
- Knowledge on EU regulatory process and decision making in the area of agriculture and food policy
- Global regulatory compliance
- Regulatory agency applications
- Regulatory strategy development
- Multitasking ability
- Stakeholder engagement
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 10/10/76
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Italian
Languages
Italian
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)
French
Advanced (C1)
Additionalinformation
Testing the Limits of Global Food Governance: The Case of Ractopamine, Alemanno, Alberto, Capodieci, Giuseppe, EJRR, 3, 2012, HEC Paris Research Paper No. 967/2013, Providing Food Information to Consumers – Proposed Legislation under the Screening of the European Parliament, European Journal of Risk Regulation (EJRR), Lexxion (Berlin), 2, 2010, 162-165, 02/01/10, Competitiveness in agriculture and in the food industry: US and EU perspective, International Association of food and agro-industrial economy (AIEA2), 06/01/06, Il ruolo delle specificità nella commercializzazione dei prodotti agroalimentari, XIII annual seminar of the Italian Society of agrifood economy (SIEA), Bologna, 06/01/05
Timeline
Technical and Regulatory Manager
FEFANA
03.2016 - Current
Advisor for Food Policy & Sustainability / Assistant to the Secretary General
European Livestock And Meat Trades Union (UECBV)
10.2007 - 02.2016
Assistant Policy Officer
European Commission
03.2007 - 09.2007
European Commission Trainee
European Commission
10.2006 - 02.2007
Free-lance consultant, part time
Agri-food companies
09.2004 - 01.2005
University Research and Collaboration
University of Catania
05.2004 - 11.2004
Ph.D. - agri-food economy
University of Catania
DSPU (Post-graduate diploma) - Political economy and public choice issues in Agricultural and Food Systems
CIHEAM - International Centre For Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies
Master of Science - Science and Food Technology
University of Catania
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