Greg Drescher is senior advisor for strategic partnerships, industry leadership, and impact, and a member of the president’s leadership team at The Culinary Institute of America. Formerly the CIA’s vice president for strategic initiatives and industry leadership, he has co-led the development of many of the college’s most influential global leadership initiatives, including the Menus of Change Leadership Summit, Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives, and the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University). He is also a co-developer of the CIA–Stanford partnership and the new Food is Life, Food is Health Summit with Stanford Medicine. In 2025, Mr. Drescher co-authored a narrative review marking three decades of the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In 2005, he was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America. (Napa, CA)