Niklas Oppenrieder, MD, is the co-founder and Global Director Strategy & Development at PAN International. Having worked mainly in paediatrics during his clinical career he is committed to intervening on the root causes of many diseases, which led him to his current focus on lifestyle medicine and nutrition. Since PAN’s early days, Niklas has been scanning the literature around nutrition and its impact on personal well-being and the planet to provide medical students and other health professionals with the bigger picture on the manyfold links between food and health. Niklas lives in a small village near Frankfurt a. Main, Germany, together with his wife and two daughters.