Debra Goulding, 
Sustainability Packaging Programme Manager, Foodstuffs NZ

Debra is the Sustainable Packaging Programme Manager for Foodstuffs New Zealand. Debra is responsible for ensuring that all ‘own brand’ and ‘in-store’ packaging is recyclable, home compostable or reusable in New Zealand by 2025.

Debra has 30 years’ of experience in food, beverage, and pharmaceutical packaging with companies around the world. In 2020 Debra was accepted into the doctoral programme at Otago University for research into government policy instruments aimed at waste minimization and the impact on the environment.

Debra is on the board of the Packaging Forum in New Zealand and a member of the Steering Committees for the Glass Forum and Soft Plastic New Zealand. Debra is an active member of many packaging working and technical advisory groups (TAGs). Most recent are the PFAS and Compostable Packaging TAG’s.