Ángela Anandappa

Angela Anandappa is currently the Chief Executive Officer & President of the Alliance for Advanced Sanitation and Executive Director of the Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative. Her work involves providing scientific leadership, conducting research, workforce development, food safety and sustainability consulting services, improving quality and food safety with a special focus on improving technological advancement and the application of valid scientific approaches to producing safe, wholesome food.

She has been a part of both industry and academia, having served as a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE; an instructor at Northeastern University in Boston, MA; as Section Manger for Supply Chain Food Safety at Kraft Foods and Kraft Heinz, led the Food Systems Innovation Center at the University of Kentucky, founded Vector Biotechnologies, in Huntsville AL, represented Agilent Technologies’ Genomics division, worked at Operon Biotechnologies (part of Eurofins), and worked at and with many other organizations.

Dr. Anandappa previously served as a vice chair and chairperson on the Food Chemical Hazards and Food Allergy PDG from 2018-2022 at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), is currently serving on the management committee for IAFP’s Food Protection Trends magazine, and is also currently serving as vice chairperson of the Food Fraud PDG. Dr. Anandappa is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the Institute for Thermal Processing Specialists (IFTPS).

She earned her B.S. in Biology with a focus on Microbiology, M.S. in Animal Science specializing in antimicrobials to preserve the safety of fresh produce, and Ph.D. in systems science for Food Safety Systems from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Anandappa earned credentials in ESG from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and in Lean Manufacturing from Toyota-UK Engineering