Hugo Byrnes is an independent consultant on sustainability, with years of experience in the food and FMCG business. He has a Dutch Law degree from the State University Leiden in the Netherlands. His career has focused on the food business and in particular on quality and sustainability management.
Previously, he was Vice President of Product Integrity for Ahold Delhaize, which he joined in 2006. He was responsible for Ahold Delhaize’s food and non-food product policies, which cover product safety and sustainable products, including social compliance, animal welfare and environmental issues.
Before that, he worked in the dairy industry, for Heineken, and for the Iams petfood company. He was co-author of the first Dutch packaging Covenant, while working for the Dutch Association for packaging and the environment. From 2000 to 2005 he was the Director of The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).
