Masterclass
Thursday 18 April 2024
11.00am - 12.15pm
“The Challenges of Food Fraud”
THIS IS AN ONLINE MASTERCLASS - FURTHER EVENT DETAILS WILL BE SENT OUT TO THOSE REGISTERED
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We continue with our virtual Master Class programme and are delighted to invite you to listen to a panel discussion chaired by Arun Chauhan, with Selvarani Elahi MBE and Lisa Jack FCCA covering the following topics:
AGENDA
11.00 |
Registration, Welcome & Introduction
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11.05
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Opening words from Arun Chauhan (host) to introduce the topics
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11.15
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Panel discussion
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12.00
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Questions
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12.15
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Close
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SPEAKERS
Arun Chauhan, Director, Tenet, is an accomplished lawyer specialising in disputes and compliance investigations, bringing successful litigation claims to recover loss from financial fraud. Founder of multi award winning disruptive law firm Tenet and the only niche law firm in its field outside of London. Arun is a thought leader, and trainer on counter fraud issues as well as a regular fraud expert for the BBC, quoted in The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Food Manufacture and New food magazine. He is Trustee Director for the Fraud Advisory Panel and provided evidence to a House of Lords Committee about the impact of digital fraud and effectiveness of the 2006 Fraud Act.
Selvarani Elahi MBE is the UK Deputy Government Chemist and Executive Director of the Food Authenticity Network. She has over 25 years’ experience in the analysis of food and agriculture samples working across a variety of policy areas, nationally and internationally, to improve standards in measurement science. Selvarani is the Chair of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Authenticity Methods Working Group and also serves on Defra’s Authenticity Steering Group. She is part of the UK delegation for several Codex and CEN standardisation committees.
Lisa Jack FCCA is Professor of Accounting at the University of Portsmouth, and also former President of the British Accounting and Finance Association (2015-2020). She is one of the few accounting researchers to investigate the agri-food industry. Her work considers the effects of accounting and performance measurement practices on the industry, and on society more widely. In particular, she examines fraud in the food and drink industry, and has recently completed a report for the Food Standards Agency in the UK on measuring the cost of food crime. Lisa’s many publications include ‘Benchmarking for food and farming: creating sustainable change.