Laurent Adamowicz is a French businessman, entrepreneur, lecturer, author, and public health advocate. He is the founder and president of the public charity EChO – Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation and a member of the

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

Nutrition Round Table.

Education

Adamowicz graduated with a B.A. from

ESCP Europe ESCP Business School (french: École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) is a French business school and ''grande école'' founded in Paris and based across Europe with campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, and Warsaw. It is consisten ...

and subsequently obtained an MBA from the

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Career

Adamowicz was a co-founder of Global Commerce Technology Company (GC Tech SA), a technology company that introduced the first micro-payments system on the Internet in 1995. He organized the buyout of

Fauchon Fauchon is a French gourmet food and delicatessen company that was founded in 1886 in Paris, France. Fauchon is considered a major reference in contemporary French gourmet foods, and it had 81 outlets in operation around the world as of 2019. ...

in January 1998. Fauchon operated 650 stores in 34 countries. Since 2005, Adamovicz he has been a senior lecturer, a speaker at TED Conferences, an author, and a judge of academic competitions, including the annual business plan competition at the

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, Harvard College's Top Chef Competition, the Harvard President’s Challenge, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Law School Deans' Challenge. Previously, Adamowicz worked in the food industry and was an investment banker.

Bon'App

Laurent Adamowicz founded Bon'App in 2010, a social enterprise designed to combat the global epidemic of

obesity Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it may negatively affect health. People are classified as obese when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's ...

through the use of an application that told users what was in their food. The app used simple language about calories, sugar, salt and 'bad fat' (the sum of saturated fats and trans fats). In 2012, Bon'App initiated a research program and clinical study in public schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with Pennington Biomedical Research Center to improve the nutrition conditions of children in public schools in the region. In 2013, the Harvard Business School published a case study entitled: "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App".

EChO - Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation

Laurent Adamowicz founded EChO - Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation in 2015. EChO - Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The foundation advocates universal nutrition education, from kindergarten to medical schools, and a new food labeling system that it intends to test in public schools in the Boston/Cambridge area. EChO - Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation focuses on technology-based education interventions. It created the first augmented reality app for public health, called SugAR Poke.

Conferences

Adamowicz has spoken at several public conferences, notably at TED Conferences; His TED Talks are entitled: "What has your food been eating?", translated in 12 languages, and "Secondary Sugar Kills", translated in 35 languages.

References

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