Unlocking the future of food with food law

Forward Food Law is a food law consulting firm in global food innovation founded in 2022. 

We believe innovative food ingredients can remedy current food system challenges such as enabling protein diversification, rediscovering forgotten (traditional) foods, and making our food system more diverse and inclusive. 

All innovative food ingredients happen to be concerned by a specific set of regulations - the EU's novel food regulation framework which determines how and if they can sold on the EU market. 

Forward Food Law has supported numerous actors in the food supply chain to tackle this matter ranging from contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), VCs, incubators, accelerators, startups, and research laboratories by giving in-person or online workshops for the last 2 years.  

Committed to making food regulations more accessible to non-legal professionals, we are now launching a self-paced online course on EU novel food regulations. 


Why Forward Food Law?

  • Trusted by more than 20+ clients operating globally throughout the whole food supply chain

  • Followed by more than 9000+ people on LinkedIn

  • Regularly invited to speak at top industry conferences and podcasts

Meet your instructor

Mathilde Do Chi, LLM

Mathilde Do Chi is the Founder and Managing Director of Forward Food Law.

She is an international food law, regulatory, and public policy consultant. She has worked across the board in the food industry for private and public sectors ranging from law, IP, and public affairs consultancy firms, governmental research bodies, NGOs, and the United Nations to a multinational. Her experience gave her a significant advantage in tackling legal and policy challenges from diverse angles.

Eager to help trailblazers and change-makers in the food industry, Mathilde is an expert consultant and mentor for EIT Food, an EU-funded organization accelerating innovation to build a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for food.

She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Plant-Based Foods Global Alliance and is a member of an investment committee for a VC firm investing in alternative proteins.

She holds a first LLM in International Trade & Investment Law from Maastricht University, a second LLM in Food Law from LUISS Guido Carli University, and a diploma in Food Psychology.


Some of our clients

Testimonials

“Mathilde clearly brings both deep subject matter expertise and personal drive to the novel foods sector. I would recommend her to companies navigating the overlooked intricacies of commercializing a novel food product across borders. ”

Blue Horizon

“I can highly recommend Mathilde's expertise when it comes to food regulatory frameworks in Europe, the US and beyond. She is able to take complicated concepts and break them down in to easy to understand bites. I recommend her to any alternative protein startup looking to prepare their route to market, as well as to any corporates looking to offer trainings on food law.”

EIT Food

“It is always a pleasure working together with Mathilde, who has been my go-to contact for novel food regulatory questions over the last few months. She has been integral in providing overviews on regulatory processes, microorganism strain / GMO questions and making an overall confusing field simple to navigate. I have found her to be highly responsive, professional and reliable. It is refreshing to have such a knowledgeable and easy to work with individual at the top of my contact list and I look forward to our continued collaborations.”

Bright Green Partners

Media coverage

Mathilde, our Managing Director is regularly featured on podcasts, food industry news magazines, and websites, and talks at conferences to make food regulations more accessible to non-lawyers. 

She also breaks down complex food law and policy topics on LinkedIn where she built a following of more than 9000 people across the world. 

In 2024, she writes monthly on regulations and public policy for vegconomist.com, the first global vegan business magazine covering the latest news in the alternative protein industry. 


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