Bobby Krishna

Department of Food Safety, Dubai Municipality, United Arab Emirates

Member since 2020

Mr Krishna works as the Senior Food Safety Specialist at the Food Safety Department of Dubai Municipality. Bobby completed his Bachelor degree in Agriculture Sciences and started his career as a manager in the tea industry in India. He received his Master Degree in Food Science and Technology from the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 2004 and has been working with Dubai Municipality since 2005. At Dubai Municipality, he was instrumental in the development of some of the key food projects that include the design and development of Foodwatch – Dubai’s digital food safety management platform; risk-based food inspection program; two editions of the Food Code, foodborne illness surveillance and investigation system, and the food manager’s certification program popularly known as the PIC Program. Bobby has also organised and managed several food safety conferences, workshops, scientific meetings, exhibitions and trainings in Dubai, the most popular and significant of them are the fourteen editions of the annual Dubai International Food Safety Conference. He is an active member of the International Association for Food Protection and leads the affiliate activities of IAFP in the region. Bobby is a recipient of the NSF International Food Safety Leadership Award as a Trendsetter (2013). He has also received the President’s award from the International Association for Food Protection (2012) and was the Hygiene Champion Award winner in Dubai for the years 2013 and 2014.