2026-27 PPP Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee Chairman

Mr Matt Kovac, CEO, Food Industry Asia

Mr Matt Kovac is the Executive Director at FIA, the food industry’s first regional industry platform that works with 50 multinational, regional and local brands, ingredients and packaging companies as part of its membership. He reports to a board of regional CEOs, presidents and other senior executives that represent a diverse range of food, beverage and ingredients companies.

Matt manages a team of 15 full-time secretariat staff at the non-profit association based in Singapore. He is responsible for delivering policy and regulatory outcomes across sustainability, food safety, trade and health & nutrition on behalf of industry and in collaboration with governments and other critical stakeholders and has full management of the association’s P&L.

Matt sits on a number of voluntary and unpaid committees providing strategic and operational advice such as the Asia Pacific Economic Partnership (APEC) steering committee of the Food Safety Cooperation Forum’s Partnership Training Institute Network; The Singapore Government’s Food Standards Committee that sets standards ranging from e-commerce rules to new plant based products; and an exco member of Singapore’s Future Ready Food Safety Hub (FRESH) that drives food safety research and helps build food safety science capabilities in support of local food innovation.

Advisory Committee Members