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 co-led the development of programs such as Menus of Change Leadership Summit; Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives; and the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative. In 2025, he co-authored a narrative review marking three decades of the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In 2005, he was inducted into the Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America.