Erwin Suwendi is Head of Nutrition and Feed Technology at Aquaculture Division of JAPFA Group, one of the leading agri-food companies in Asia. Based in HQ-Jakarta, he currently leads feed formulation for freshwater fish (Nile tilapia, African catfish, common carp, Indian major carp, Pangasius, snakehead and frog), marine fish (milkfish, barramundi, pompano and grouper), shrimp (white leg shrimp and tiger prawn), eel (Anguilla) and petfood (koi, cat and dog). He also manages quality control and lab to ascertain every process in feed mill starting from raw materials receiving, processed until finished feed complies with international standard such as ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 17025, ASC, BAP and so on. Additionally, he is in charge of innovation, research and development for nutrition, feed and feeding management trials with emphasis on reinventing cost-effective nutrient balanced diet as well as minimizing waste output of aquaculture operation. Recently he oversees shrimp hatcheries operation across the region in Indonesia.

Erwin graduated with a BSc in Aquaculture from Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia. He completed his MSc in Nutritional Biochemistry from Hokkaido University, Japan in 2011 where his work primarily focused on impact of food components on gastrointestinal health. He further advanced to satisfactory complete “The Advanced Aquaculture Nutrition Training Program” with the UG/OMNR FNRL, University of Guelph, Canada in 2012. He did his PhD study at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany in 2015 focusing on amino acids requirement and utilization at different weight class of Nile tilapia and common carp; effect of different digestible energy level on amino acids requirement of Nile tilapia and common carp.