QUALITYHONEY AWARDS

PETER LEWIS – UNITED KINGDOM

eter Lewis lives in the Yorkshire Pennine hills and has been a keen artisan keeper of honeybees since the mid-noughties. Currently he’s the Yorkshire Agricultural Society appointed Chief Hives and Honey Steward at the annual Great Yorkshire Show. An active exhibitor and show steward has inevitably resulted in an interest in the British accredited style of judging honey, wax and all related hive products. He’s currently in the process of becoming a fully qualified Honey Judge, building hands-on practical experience through judging invitations, referral and recommendation, broadening his taste palate. Combining simple pure hedonistic enjoyment with systematic taste appreciation of what’s actually in the comb and jar, he took an intensive international “sensory analysis of honey” sommelier expert course in Bologna, Italy. This has led to further development study, applying organoleptics together with melissopalynology (honey pollens evaluation) to define UK – and worldwide – honey type provenance traceability with gustatory characteristics.

GIAN LUIGI MARCAZZAN – ITALY

Researcher and technical manager for honey quality control by chemical and sensory analysis at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) in Bologna, Italy for 26 years. He is the leader of the Honey Sensory group within the International Honey Commission, the leading organization to develop methods for honey quality evaluation. He is the President of the Italian Register of Experts in the Sensory Analysis of Honey with more than 25 years of experience as a teacher and professional honey taster. From 2008, Gian Luigi works as a panel leader for the international honey competition BioMiel. Gian Luigi studies the composition of royal jelly and propolis to open up the knowledge on the composition in order to characterize and control the quality. He is also a beekeeper and breeds bees for the production of swarms and honey.

EMRE YILDIRIM – TURKEY

Founder of ApiMaye Innovative Beekeeping, Equipment, producer of Thermo Beehives. Experienced WBA Judge (World Beekeeping Awards) and a member of ApiMondia (World Beekeepers Association) with a demonstrated history of working in the Beekeeping Industry. Beekeeper and Beekeeping Equipment expert. Strong legal professional with a bachelor’s degree in International Business and Marketing from European School of Economics, Italy.

HAKAN TOSUNOGLU – TURKEY

Graduated from Bursa Uludag University Depertmant of Biology. Working in Central Research Institute of Food and Feed Control, Bursa-Turkey since 2009. He is also an expert on the palynological analysis of different honeys that collected from different regions; his PhD thesis was about the “Botanical origin of honeys from Marmara region (NW Turkey).

MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ – SPAIN

Forestry Engineer and Master in Research in Engineering for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Systems is a professional beekeeper since 2012. He collaborated as an expert in the honey guide of Spain and Portugal 2018 of the web mieladictos. In their company Miel Montes de Valvení they make guided visits to the apiaries, tastings and pairings with other products to bring different types of honey to the consumer.

YANNIS TSITSONIS

Yannis Tsitsonis is a creative designer with an twenty year international career spanning from painting and illustration to animation and digital design. For more than ten years he owned and led Liquid Certainty Design Studio earning distinctions and awards in national and international level. A natural born storyteller he written, produced and directed his own animated series with unprecedented success. As a keen study of visual languages and human computer interface he co-invented data visualisation techniques and continues to exert himself in the effort to translate the enormous and complicated world of information into easily exchangeable and understandable visual models.

ELENΙ DIMITRIOU

Highly skilled and experienced award winning Graphic Designer with a strong background in visual communication. Strongly knowledgeable about all approaches to distance learning, creating unique e-Learning courses and training paths for a variety of subjects and industries. More than anything else, a Creative personality with a need of constant improvement. In 2008 established Bluetrees Studio (www.bluetreesstudio.co.uk) a Bournemouth based creative agency providing freelance creative services to companies and individuals both locally as well globally. A University of South Wales graduate in Graphic Arts with a Masters of Arts from Bournemouth University in Interactive Media.