Florentine Zieglowski is a system-minded food innovator dedicated to rebuilding how we produce meat. As Co‑Founder and Director of RespectFarms, she is pioneering the world’s first cellular agriculture farm, to ethically produce meat directly from cells and bringing this technology into the hands of farmers. In her role at the Task Force New Feed & Food at DLG, one of the leading agricultural organizations in Germany with over 30,000 members, 

Florentine unites science, agriculture and policy to accelerate the uptake of cellular agriculture at conventional farms. She works at the intersection of innovation and practice, shaping pragmatic ways for cellular agriculture within the broader food transformation. With academic roots at Maastricht University, Nova SBE, and Passau, Florentine blends strategic innovation with political economy — using systems thinking to turn creative, bold ideas into real life.