Robert Oliver

Executive Director & Board Chair at Pacific Island Food Revolution

https://www.pacificislandfoodrevolution.com/

Robert Oliver is a chef, author, and TV host from New Zealand. He has started restaurants in New York, Miami, Las Vegas and Sydney, "farm to table" resorts in the Caribbean.
Robert is the Chef Ambassador for Le Cordon Bleu, New Zealand and has authored two popular culinary books: Me’a Kai: The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific and Mea’ai Samoa. Me’a Kai stunned the food world by winning “Best Cookbook in the World” at the Gourmand Awards in Paris.

In 2017, Robert was honored with a KEA World Class New Zealander Award and in 2022 was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition for his services to the food industry and Pacific Communities.

Robert is the Executive Director and Founder of Pacific Island Food Revolution, a television media-led movement across the South Pacific designed to return the region to traditional cuisine to curb the Pacific’s NCD crisis. Pacific Island Food Revolution television plays across the Pacific, in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, the UK and the USA and internationally via Parade Media.