Ronni Kahn is a passionate advocate and activist, renowned for disrupting the food waste landscape in Australia. The South-African born Australian is a social entrepreneur who founded the food rescue charity OzHarvest.
As the owner of a successful event company, Ronni saw huge volumes of food going to waste every day and soon realised she was part of the problem. Knowing that millions of people were going hungry, she determined that this was something that had to be fixed. Ronni’s simple solution of taking her own surplus food to local charities quickly took off and in 2004, OzHarvest was born.
Today, OzHarvest is Australia’s leading food rescue organisation. With Ronni at the helm, a dedicated team of nearly 300 staff and more than 3000 volunteers share her devotion for the cause. The charity has grown under Ronni’s stewardship from humble beginnings in Sydney to delivering food and educational programs across Australia. The charity’s model has been shared globally and is now established in New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Always on the lookout for new ways to innovate, Ronni started the world’s first free supermarket – the OzHarvest Market – based on a ‘take what you need give if you can’ philosophy and founded ForPurposeCo - a sustainable, social focused business to create revenue for OzHarvest.
