Orazio Bellettini
Official Ambassador for Manabí, World Region of Gastronomy Awarded 2026
Social entrepreneur, Co-founder and Executive Director of FUEGOS
Orazio is a social entrepreneur with experience promoting multi-sectoral sustainable development processes and was incorporated as an IGCAT Expert (International Institute of Gastronomy Culture, Arts and Tourism) in 2023. He graduated from the Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, Honduras, with an Engineering degree in Agricultural Economy, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) with Master's Degrees in Political Science and Business Administration, as well as from the Harvard Kennedy School with a Master's in Public Administration and Public Policy.
Orazio has advised international agencies, civil society organisations and governments in México, Guatemala, Perú, Spain and Paraguay in issues related to the role of knowledge in the policy process, education, social change and transition to more sustainable agro-food systems. Orazio was awarded as an Ashoka and Avina Fellow in 2008 and the Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in 2013.
In 2017, Orazio co-founded FUEGOS, a civil society organisation that seeks to make food a catalyser of social transformation in Manabí, Ecuador and Latin America.
