Jose Andres.

José Andrés is the Founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK), the disaster relief organization that has served over 350 million meals in response to natural disasters, conflicts, and humanitarian crises around the world, and the Founder of ThinkFoodGroup, the restaurant company behind acclaimed establishments including Jaleo, Zaytinya, and minibar.

Born in Spain, Andrés immigrated to the United States and became one of the most celebrated chefs in America, winning the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef. But it is World Central Kitchen that has made Andrés one of the most consequential social entrepreneurs of his generation. WCK has responded to hurricanes, earthquakes, the Ukraine war, and countless other crises by deploying volunteer chefs to cook millions of meals within hours of disaster. WCK's rapid-response model has been praised as more effective than traditional humanitarian organizations. Andrés was named Time's Citizen of the Year and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His transformation of disaster relief through food-combining culinary expertise with logistics at unprecedented scale-represents a unique form of social entrepreneurship that has saved lives across the globe.