Nelli Hajdu

Nelli Hajdu is the Secretary General of CELCAA, the European Liaison Committee for Agricultural and Agri-Food Trade, which represents the most essential food sectors and their trading operations with commodities such as meat and livestock, dairy, cereals, grain, and oilseed trade, eggs, egg whites, and egg yolks, wine and aromatized wine products, hops, tea, and herbal infusions, tobacco, and the craft butcher sector. CELCAA represents more than 25.000 agri-food traders, exporters, importers, distributors, and collectors in Europe. CELCAA focuses on agri-food imports and exports and the respective market access to priority countries, as well as increasingly on sustainability regulations as a new market access requirement for global agri-food trade. She is further the co-owner of NAERO-Consulting, a boutique consultancy focusing on agri-food trade and market access. Prior to her role in CELCAA, she was the Secretary General of SHAFFE – The Southern Hemisphere Association of Fresh Fruit Exporters, from 2020 to 2022. She further covered the trade dossiers for Freshfel Europe the European Fruit and Vegetable Association, from 2015 to 2022 as Director for Trade Policy, with a focus on trade facilitation, SPS, and market access. She holds a postgraduate master’s degree in European Governance from the College of Europe and a master’s degree in political science and media science from the Goethe University in Frankfurt a.M., Germany.