Claus Meyer's biography
For more than 30 years Claus Meyer (1963) has been a gastronomic entrepreneur. Besides his countless companies employing more than 800 staff, Meyer is an affiliated professor and distinguished alum at Copenhagen Business School and Social Impact Fellow at University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. Claus Meyer is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog under the Royal Danish House, member of the Danish Gastronomical Academy and he has been named on ETA Foundation and the Culinary Institute of America’s the Plant-Forward Global 50, as well as he is member of the Advisory Board for the Stone Barns Center, USA.
Indigenous food
Additionally, believing in food as a driver for social change, Meyer has co-founded the Melting Pot Foundation, with the aim of improving the quality of life and provide new opportunities to vulnerable individuals in Denmark as well as in selected projects abroad. He has inspired a generation to rediscover local Nordic produce through his portfolio of businesses, cookbooks, TV shows, lectures, and agenda-setting viewpoints. He continuously strives to push his dream of unfolding the potential of indigenous food cultures worldwide, exemplified by the co-founding and co-owning of celebrated restaurant NOMA, Copenhagen (Denmark) as well as restaurant GUSTU, La Paz (Bolivia). While the former has been a perennial World’s Best Restaurant, the latter was in September 2017 voted as the 28th best restaurant in Latin America after merely five years in service.
In August 2015 he moved to New York City with his family to steer the 2016 opening of fine dining restaurant Agern and Great Northern Food Hall in the city’s iconic Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan. Moreover, Claus Meyer has under the Melting Pot Foundation umbrella initiated a non-for-profit culinary project in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Here Claus Meyer and his team has established a culinary education program for local youth, a community eatery, a bakery, and a space serving the residents. The hope is to prime the grounds for a positive ripple effect beyond the walls of the physical premises.
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MeyersUSA
Meyers Mad
Melting Pot Foundation
A Taste of the Terminal: Claus Meyer Great Northern Food Hall and Restaurant Agern
A Taste of Sky
[A teaser on a documentary in the making on restaurant GUSTU and the Bolivian cuisine movement
password: gustu]
Alice Waters, Will Rosenzweig, and Claus Meyer, University of California, Berkeley 2015: Sustainable Food Entrepreneurship
Claus Meyer, TEDxCopenhagen 2012 Unfolding Indigenous Food Cultures
Claus Meyer, Sustainia Living 2017: The story of the Hummingbird
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