Rebecca Lian

Dr Rebecca Lian is a veteran and expert in the food industry and presently serves as a food domain advisor to a major investment fund as well as advisor to several food start-ups in Singapore on alternative protein. She is also a business advisor with Enterprise Singapore supporting innovation, technical and operational challenges faced by our Singapore food and food service SMEs. Rebecca spent close to 34 years with Nestle holding various leadership positions. She last helmed the China Nestle R&D leadership and set up four competent centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Dongguan and Xiamen. Rebecca was part of the pioneer team to bring factory and manufacturing operations for Nestle in China. During her 24 years in China, Rebecca was responsible for launches of new products across multiple product categories such as frozen food to ambient culinary, coffee and beverages, dairy, nutrition for seniors, confectionery and snacks, food services and QSR for the Chinese market and also Asia Pacific. She was a distinguished fellow at Wilmar International, one of Singapore’s largest food and agri-food companies, and was also the Co-Lab Director for the Wilmar @NUS Food Lab leading the development of personalised food products for clinical trials addressing metabolic disorder syndrome. Rebecca has a PhD in Food Technology from Reading University, United Kingdom.