2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 23-25, 2025 | Seattle, WA
Hyatt Regency Seattle
Ghislaine Challamel
Senior Advisor
Stanford Food Institute
Bio:
Ghislaine Challamel is a leader in sustainable food systems, specializing in food choice architecture and behavioral science to transform operations, from institutional dining to broader supply chains and workplaces. As Senior Advisor for the Stanford Food Institute and MCURC, she authored the MCURC Repurpose Report and developed the accompanying toolkit, equipping organizations to repurpose overproduced food and measure the economic, environmental, and social benefits. Leading FoodWISE, a pilot program designed in partnership with ReFED and WWF, Ghislaine harnessed employee insights to reduce back-of-house waste.
Previously, she designed and scaled culinary education initiatives across multiple campuses as Compass@Google’s global Teaching Kitchen program lead, to promote employee wellness, food literacy, and healthier eating patterns. At Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises, Ghislaine coordinated multi-site behavioral science academic research to increase vegetable intake, and overhauled food waste data collection protocols to generate actionable insights.
Ghislaine holds a master's degree in Food Science with a major in Nutrition from AgroParisTech (France), a master's degree in Business, Communications, and Marketing strategies from INSEEC Paris, and a bachelor's in biology and biochemistry from Universite Paris XII (France).
Schedule
Wednesday, June 25
10:45am - 11:45am
[Breakout Session III] From the Ground Up: Empowering Frontline Workers to Reduce Food Waste
Often the best solutions come from the people who are closest to the problem. Empowering frontline workers to develop strategies for addressing food loss and waste has surfaced creative and highly scalable solutions across the food system—in one case, driving more than a 70% reduction in wasted food within a manufacturing line. Join some of these frontline workers from U.S. Food Waste Pact signatory companies to hear how they’ve led high-impact work from the ground up—and how the Pact’s newly launched employee engagement toolkit can help your business.