--- title: "World Vegetarian Congress, Edinburgh 2002: Reena Khubchandani - Speaker Profile - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "World Vegetarian Congress, Edinburgh 2002: Reena Khubchandani - Speaker Profile: International Vegetarian Union (IVU) 35th World Vegetarian Congress 'Food for all our futures' Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland July 8-14, 2002 Hosted by The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom Reena" url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/3256-congress-2002-program-john-wedderburn.html" date: "2026-11-06T01:21:31+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # World Vegetarian Congress, Edinburgh 2002: Reena Khubchandani - Speaker Profile **International Vegetarian Union (IVU)** | ![IVU logo](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/members/pics/ivu-con1.gif) | 35th World Vegetarian Congress **'Food for all our futures'** --- Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland July 8-14, 2002 | Hosted by [![](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/2002/bluelogo.gif) **The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom**](http://www.vegsoc.org/) **Reena Khubchandani** Monday - 3.00pm - 4.00pm : Veganism in the East: Long term solutions Tuesday - 9.00am - 10.00am : Veganism in the East: popularisation | |---|---|---| | **Reena Khubchandani** became a vegan overnight 2 years ago after coming to Hong Kong. Previously she had lived in North Carolina, India and Ghana. She has a BA in Philosophy with minors in Theology and Computer Studies from Belmont Abbey College, and studied Mass Communication at St. Cloud State University, MN. She is coordinator of Alumni Relations & Development at Hong Kong International School. She enjoys her family and her cat, classical Indian and Persian music, travel, reading, cooking and is a lone vegan baker in Hong Kong. **Hong Kong Vegan Society** | ![](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/2002/photos/reena.jpg) Reena | | **[Interactive Congress - send a question to this speaker](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/3279-congress-2002-program-speaker-form.html)**A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly. Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. 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