The versatile Yasmine Motarjemi is a world class food safety expert and advocate, living in Nyon, Switzerland. Her career path spanned the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva where for a full decade she worked for the prevention of foodborne illnesses before joining Nestlé in a senior position in the year 2000. During her ten-year tenure there, she upgraded the Nestlé food safety management system and managed international crises until she ended up warning the top Nestlé management of the multinational giant about her assessed failures and dysfunctions in safety management Since 2010 Yasmine has turned into a fervent advocate of food safety and human rights.

Born in Rasht, Iran, Yasmine had French schooling in Tehran before doing her graduate work on scholarship at the University of Languedoc, Montpellier, later at the University of Lund, Sweden, where she received a doctoral degree in Food Engineering 1988.  She is the author, co-author or editor of numerous peer-reviewed articles, books, training manuals and other publications, including a book on food safety for children entitled Les Invisibles, (The Invisible Things). In 2014, she published the Encyclopedia on Food Safety (Elsevier) and the book Food Safety Management: A Practical Guide for the Food Industry (Elsevier) which in 2015 received the PROSE award (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) in USA.