Prof. Dr. Vladimir Kakurinov is the Executive Director of Consulting and Training Center KEY.

A professor, as well as an accredited trainer and consultant, with over 30 years of experience in the fields of food safety and hygienic engineering and design. He has trained over 1,000 individuals from over 500 companies and institutions, worldwide, in HACCP and Hygienic Engineering and Design, while also participating in numerous international projects.

He is the founder of Consulting and Training Center KEY (in 2008), alongside Snezhana Kakurinova PhD; founder of the Annual, Scientific, and International Congress of Food Quality and Safety, Health, and Nutrition Congress – NUTRICON (in 2014); as well as the founder of the Journal of Hygienic Engineering and Design- JHED (in 2012), of which he is the Editor-in-Chief. The Journal is a free-access publication platform, accepted in EBSCO, CNKI, CABI, and many more scientific databases, containing more than 50,000 officially registered readers from academia and more than 1,000 companies from around the world.

Highly regarded in his field, Prof. Dr Vladimir Kakurinov was a European Hygienic Engineering Design Group (EHEDG) Macedonian Regional Section Chairman and is a Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) Ambassador for Macedonia, and a member of numerous international organizations as EFFoST, B-FoST, etc.

He has written many scientific publications in numerous scientific journals and is the author/co-author of many books/chapters, as well as editor in a few international books such as the Encyclopedia of Food Safety, the first European Glossary of terms in Food Quality and Safety recognized by the EU, Food safety short stories, and Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in the Balkans, published by Elsevier and other international publishers.