FCSI AT 70 COVER STORY
THE JOURNEY TO 70
FOUNDATION OF FFES
1955
FOUNDATION OF ISFSC
1958
MERGING OF FFES AND ISFSC TO FORM FCSI
1979
FOUNDING OF FCSI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
FIRST EVENT IN ASIA PACIFIC;
FIRST FEMALE CHAIR AND
1995
THE NOUGHTIES: MORE GLOBAL, DIVERSE AND SUSTAINABLE
Te mid-1990s to mid-2000s was also a turning point when it came to diversity and international growth. 1995 saw FCSI’s first female president, Kathleen Seelye FFCSI (pictured above), and the first Asia Pacific event, while membership was approaching the 1,000 mark. Tere were now European, Asian and Amercian chapters of the Society ‒ and more female leaders about to step up. One of them was Clara Pi FFCSI
THAT INSPIRED CLARA PI TO MAKE FUTURE CONFERENCES CARBON NEUTRAL
EDINBURGH CONFERENCE
2006
(pictured below) who found the Society due to a happy coincidence: in 1994 she was working in Canada and attended a meeting in a neighboring room to an FCSI event in New Orleans. After moving to Hong Kong a couple of years later, she went to her first FCSI APD meeting in Singapore and met Yasuo Inoue FCSI the chair for the Asia Pacific Chapter at the time. “He said to me, ‘Clara, you’ve got to join us, you’ve got to lead us,’” she says. She applied for membership, was accepted and, before she knew it, she was the chair. “Representing Asia Pacific on
the Worldwide board, I got to meet colleagues from different countries all over the world and this was a great opportunity to find out what problems they had and learn about all the local solutions we can come up with and share best practices.”
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WHAT A SPECIAL TIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE FCSI’S SUCCESS – AND YEARS OF COLLABORATION!”
But the cause closest to Pi’s
heart became raising awareness of the food sector’s environmental impact – and uniting the industry to reduce it. “Food is crucial if we want to talk about combating climate change. Te design of plant- forward menus, kitchen layouts, the
choice of equipment, and control of food waste all contributes to land use, energy and water use, and the carbon footprint,” she says.
It was a concept she was awakened
to after the 2006 FCSI Worldwide Conference in Edinburgh, which she helped organize. She decided that when it came to the 2008 conference in Beijing they should make changes and pitched making the conference carbon-neutral by planting 500 trees. She made it happen. And since then, FCSI has supported the planting of hundreds of trees each year in Inner Mongolia to offset the carbon footprint of its Asia Pacific events – many under Pi’s direct supervision. It’s been a journey to get to this point.
“Initially, I felt a little bit alone trying to push this idea of sustainability,” she says. “But things are starting to shift. FCSI members remembered me at the May 2022 FCSI EAME Conference – they even put my photo on the slides when they talked about tree planting to achieve a carbon- neutral conference. Tat means a lot.”
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ON THE WORLDWIDE BOARD, I MET COLLEAGUES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND LEARNED ABOUT THEIR CONCERNS AND SOLUTIONS”
WORLDWIDE
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