Latifa Abdennebi-Najar, Ph.D. is the Scientific Director and the Head of Products Quality and Health Department at the French Livestock Institute, and a Research Associate at the French Institute of Medical Research (INSERM). She is involved in a number of national and EU projects (as a coordinator or subtask leader). She gained her Ph.D. in Life Science at Sorbonne University (France, 1999). She is a co-founder of the French DOHAD society (Development Origins of Health and Disease), and its Secretary General since 2018. She is Secretariat of the Nutrition Commission of EAAP (2019), and has been an associate editor of the Journal of Developmental Health and Disease (Cambridge press) since 2017.