BIOGRAPHY

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Food and sustainability advocate Fia Gulliksson has put Jämtland, in the heart of Sweden, on the global culinary map. Fia is a serial entrepreneur and a self-trained chef focused on creative gastronomy. Charged with the spirit of Pippi Longstocking and the vigour of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad she was appointed as Honorary Doctor PhD by the Mid Sweden University 2017.

Fia uses food and culture as the tools for sustainable profits. She’s CEO of Food In Action Company Group founded by her in 2000. The company has launched a number of successful initiatives and sustainable brands like The Great Nordic Feast, Eat Up Food Walks, Flowfood and prizewinning Jazzkoket.
She is also behind her hometown Östersund’s successful bid to become a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy and the host city of the network’s annual summit in September 2016.Her initiatives have catalysed the development of the county of Jämtland’s development and put the region firmly on the map. What’s more, Fia’s companies provide enduring social and cultural capital in rural areas, they’re debt-free, and… they’re profitable.

Fia spent three years as the host of Swedish Radio’s popular MENY (Menu) food and cooking show.  Furthermore on she also inspired Bergen in Norway to become a UNESCO Creative City. After years of work they finally got appointed in December 2015.

Under the Food in Action banner, Fia hosts a cultural podcast series called Kulturpodden.se, and manages two other companies, the rural restaurant Sikåsköket and the organic tea company Brunkullans Te. Today,

Having handed the reigns of Jazzköket over to co-founder Andersson in 2015, Fia now spends her time, and energy, travelling the world, motivating and inspiring others into creative action, in order to initiate a social transformation of their local community. Fia’s mission is also to inspire others worldwide to embark on a sustainable business journey driven by culture and creativity.

Moderating, speaking and curating events and think tanks at conferences across the world, often as Sweden’s representative, Fia has appeared at: the Åre Sustainability Summit; TEDxÖstersund; Terroir Symposium –Toronto; as delegate on CNN in Bilbao at the Parabere Forum; Slow Food’s Terre Madre in Turin; and curated programs and speeches for UNESCO Creative Cities annual meetings in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, Montreal in Canada, Istanbul in Turkey, Kanazawa in Japan and as far afield as Jenjou, Korea.

Specialties: Designing creative GOOD FOOD* ecosystems and brands. Contributing to a better world with gastronomy, creativity and sustainable, inspiring leadership. Ahead of time in many ways.                                                            *taste, sustainability, equality

SVENSKA
Fia Gulliksson är serie-entreprenör och kock med fokus på kreativ gastronomi. Med maten och kulturen som redskap för lönsamhet driver hon idag en koncernen Food In Action Company Group som i sin tur skapat en rad projekt och hållbara varumärken som bidrar till regional utveckling och som sätter Jämtland på kartan. The Great Nordic Feast, Eat Up Food Walks, Flowfood och prisvinnande Jazzkoket för att nämna några.

Laddad med andan av Pippi Longstocking och kraften hos IKEA grundare Ingvar Kamprad blev hon utnämnd till hedersdoktor doktor vid MittUniversitetet 2017. Värt att poängtera är alla bolagen bidrar till socialt- och kulturellt kapital för bygden, inget av bolagen har några lån och de går med vinst.

Under tre år hördes Fia som kalaskokerskan i P1 Meny och hon är också initiativtagare till att Östersund idag kan stoltsera med titeln UNESCOs Creative City of Gastronomy. 

I April 2015 lämnade hon Jazzköket till medgrundaren Kristoffer Andersson. I koncernen Food In Action driver Fia också  kulturpodden.se, samt har två dotterbolag Sikåsköket och Brunkullans Te. Hon reser världen över och inspirerar andra att skapa hållbara verksamheter med kultur och kreativitet som drivkraft.

Specialitet: Att designa kreativa REKO MAT* ekosystem och varumärken. Bidra till en bättre mat med god, kreativitet, hållbarhet och inspirerande ledarskap. Före sin tid på många vis.                                                                                   *smak, hållbarhet, jämlikhet

CONTACT INFO

Mail to Food In Action: info (at) foodinaction.se
Mail to Fia Gulliksson: fia (at) foodinaction.se
Adress to Food In Action: Torvollsvägen 68, 831 92 Östersund, Sweden
Phone: +46-(0)70-635 01 44

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