The EAAEP Foundation sponsors one invited key note speaker at the EAAE congress which leads within the Aims and Scope to a leading article in the ERAE. The following distinghuised scholars have held the ERAE Lecture:
- 2011, Zurich: Christian Gollier
- 2014, Ljubljana: Louis-Georges Soler and Vincent Requillart (INRA, France): “Is the reduction of chronic diseases related to food consumption in the hands of the food industry?”
- 2017, Parma: Olivier de Schutter: The political economy of food systems reform
- 2021 Prague (digital) – no ERAE lecture presented
- 2023 Rennes