Sara is an experienced social entrepreneur and thought leader in the food ecosystem. As a seasoned growth expert, she works with globally recognized, high-profile think tanks on setting the agenda for the sustainable food industry.
Described as a game-changer who knows how to drive change, she has a flair for exploration and prosperity thinking.
Over the past ten years, she has focused on a mission to take food leaders and youth to the next phase of action through education, research projects, and innovation challenges.
Thinking that FOOD is the Nexus of Fertility, Prosperity, and Longevity and believing that integral ecology serves as a guiding framework to navigate this complex interplay and regeneration is the only viable approach to safeguard our planet in 2014, she founded Future Food: a purpose-driven ecosystem facilitating positive transformation in life on earth, promoting food innovation as a strategic element to achieve sustainable and impactful growth, and in 2020 after the pandemic broke out, she birthed the Pollica - Paideia Campus, a Mediterranean Living Lab, a prototype of a sustainable village, where one can learn a new kind of sociality and live the concept of integral ecology, combining environmental protection and human health, regeneration of the territory and citizens' well-being, social justice, and climate change.
She manages the Permanent Secretariat of the Italian Emblematic Communities of the Mediterranean Diet UNESCO.
In 2020 she co-founded the goodaftercovid19.org initiative and, among others, since 2014 she is also a member of the Google Food Lab;partner and board member of the Food For Climate League and Member of the Kofi Annan Foundation Commission on Food Security.
Wednesday 9
15.00 - 15.45
Costa Carras European Citizens Award Ceremony
Phrynichos Hall | European Cultural Centre of Delphi
by Europa Nostra & ELLINIKI ETAIRIA - Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage
Opening Addresses by Co-organisers of the Costa Carras European Citizens Awards
✓ Sneška Quadvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary General, Europa Nostra
✓ Lydia Carras, Founder & President, ELLINIKI ETAIRIA - Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage
Addresses by the Founding Partners of the Costa Carras European Citizens Awards
✓ Symeon G. Tsomokos, Delphi Economic Forum
✓ Anastasios Paul Leventis, Chairman, A.G. Leventis Foundation
✓ Ioannis Tsakiris, Vice-President, European Investment Bank
Presentation of the Gold Award
✓ Xenia Loizidou, Chair of the Board of Directors of AKTI Project and Research Centre / Gold Award Laureate
Presentation of the Silver Award
✓ Sara Roversi, President of the Future Food Institute and Paideia Campus / Silver Award Laureate
Closing Remarks
Launch of the Call for Entries for the Costa Carras European Citizens Awards 2026
Sneška Quadvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary General, Europa Nostra
Shiva Dustdar, Director, Head of EIB Institute