Rene Redzepi became head chef and co-founder of noma in 2003. Since then he has become one of his generation's most respected chefs with noma winning the Best Restaurant in the World award four times and himself being honoured in Time's 100 Most Influential People. After relocating his entire team to open noma pop-up residencies in Tokyo, Japan (2015), Sydney, Australia (2016) and Tulum, Mexico (2017), Redzepi returned to Denmark to reopen noma in February 2018, having closed the restaurant in its original home on Copenhagen harbor twelve months earlier. Redzepi also established the not-for-profit MAD Symposium in 2011 to galvanize the creative potential of the global cooking community.