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The

president of the United States, Joe Biden,

appointed the Spanish chef

José Andrés

as co-chair of

the Advisory Council on Sport, Fitness and Nutrition, the

White House

reported in a statement on

Wednesday .

This council is an advisory body to the president charged with promoting physical activity and

healthy eating

for all Americans, regardless of background or ability.

According to the White House, the council will now include a new focus related to mental health promotion.

The statement detailed that José Andrés is an "internationally recognized innovative chef", named in 2012 and 2018 as one of the

100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine

and decorated in 2015 by the then president,

Barack Obama,

(2009-2017 ) with the

National Medal of Humanities.

He has been a "pioneer" of Spanish tapas in the United States and is also known for his avant-garde cuisine, the White House said.

In 2010, he founded the

NGO World Central Kitchen

to provide food to crisis-hit communities, as he did by delivering 3.6 million meals in

Puerto Rico

after

Hurricane Maria

in 2017.

In addition, his organization has partnered during the

Covid-19

pandemic with restaurants and farmers across the United States to "combat food insecurity."

José Andrés and his organization are currently working in

Ukraine

and neighboring countries to

feed refugees

who have fled the Russian invasion.

The White House also explained that, as a naturalized Spanish American, José Andrés has been a

"tireless advocate of immigration reform"

to regularize millions of people.

Biden

also named

Washington Mystics

star

basketball player

Elena Delle Donne as co-chair of the council.

In 2017, she founded the

Elena Delle Donne Foundation

to raise funds for research on

Lyme disease,

a bacterial infection transmitted by deer ticks.

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