Andrea Magarini is the Director of the Food Policy Department of the City of Milan. In this role, he is coordinating the management of school canteens service, urban agriculture, food waste prevention and food aid promotion. He facilitates the engagement of municipal agencies, philanthropic foundations, universities, social actors and private sector for the implementation of actions on food waste reduction, short food chains, child food habits, food start-up incubator. He chairs the Working Group Food of Eurocities from 2017, the network of 51 European cities active on food policy development, co-organizing the meetings in Valencia, Amsterdam, Lyon, Ghent and Montpellier, taking part to the debate at the European Commission with DG RTD and SANTE. From 2014 to 2017 he was a researcher on food system at EStà Research Centre participating from the early stage at the definition of the Milan food system assessment and food policy guidelines. Master in Architecture and Urban Planning, he focused his studies on food system, policymaking, local development and international cooperation.