Who we are

Executive council

ACTING PRESIDENT
Dr Peter Kozmus
peter.kozmus@apimondia.org

SECRETARY-GENERAL
Riccardo Jannoni-Sebastianini
apimondia@mclink.it

DEAN
Asger Søgaard Jørgensen
Denmark
asj@biavl.dk

Scientific commissions

Beekeeping economy
Norberto Luis Garcia
Universidad Nacional del Sur Rawson, Argentina
n.garcia@nexco-sa.com.ar

Bee Biology
Dr Gennaro Di Prisco
Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection National Research Council, Italy
gennaro.diprisco@cnr.it

Bee Health
Dr Fani Hatjina
Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, Greece
fhatjina@gmail.com

Pollination and bee flora
Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi
Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos, Naturales Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural (IRNAD), Argentina
lgaribaldi@unrn.edu.ar

Technology and quality
Prof. Miguel Vilas Boas
Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources
Polytechnic University of Bragança, Portugal
mvboas@ipb.pt

Apitherapy
Dr János Körmendy-Rácz
Hungary
krj@apiterapia.hu

​Rural development
Megan Denver
Bees for Development
United States

Regional commissions

Africa
David Mukomana
Harare, Zimbabwe
dmukomana@gmail.com

Americas
Lucas Martinez
Buenos-Aires, Argentina
presidente@sada.org.ar

Asia
Dr Orawan Duangphakdee
Thailand
Orawan.dua@kmutt.ac.th

Europe
Robert Chlebo
Slovak University of Agriculture, Slovakia
robo.chlebo@gmail.com

Oceania
John Caldeira
Fiji
john@outdoorplace.org

Honorary members
Honorary members
 
Mulufird ASHAGRIE – Ethiopia
Robert BANKER – USA
Jacobus C. BIESMEIJER – Netherlands
Nicola BRADBEAR – United Kingdom
Etienne BRUNEAU – Belgium
David CARDOSO TAMEZ – Mexico
Cleofas Rodriguez CERVANCIA – Philippines
Yao-Chun CHEN – China
CHO Kyoon-Hwan – South Korea
Jean-Paul COCHARD – Switzerland
Maureen CONQUER – New Zealand
Karl CRAILSHEIM – Austria
Robin CREWE – South Africa
Misael Edmundo CUEVAS BRAVO – Chile
DINH Quyet Tam – Vietnam
Don DIXON – Canada
Stephen FEWSTER – Australia
Pierre GIOVENAZZO – Canada
Karel F. L. GLADINES – Belgium
Jodie GOLDSWORTHY – Australia
Lionel Segui GONÇALVES – Brazil
Taissija I. GUBINA – Russia
Asger Søgaard JØRGENSEN – Denmark
Edmund Nigel LEAR – South Africa
Lucas Daniel MARTÍNEZ – Argentina
Cristina MATEESCU – Romania
Diego PAGANI – Italy
Miloslav PEROUTKA – Czechia
Lojze PETERLE – Slovenia
Jeffery S. PETTIS – USA
Gilles RATIA – France
Ziha ŞAHIN – Turkey
Georges V. SELLIANAKIS – Greece
Franc ŠIVIC – Slovenia
Werner STERN – Switzerland
Octaaf VAN LAERE – Belgium
Tetyana VASYLKIVSKA – Ukraine
Rudolf VERHEYEN – Belgium
Laiq Ram VERMA – India
WOO Kun-Suk – South-Korea
Geraldine A. WRIGHT – USA
Sadanori YAMANAKA – Japan
Late Honorary members
LATE HONORARY MEMBERS
 
Vladimir Vladimirovici ALPATOV – USSR
Ludwig ARMBRUSTER – Germany
Gurgen A. AVETISYAN – USSR
Nora BALDENSPERGER – France
Richard H. BARNES – United Kingdom
Grigori D. BILASH – USSR
Raymond BORNECK – France
Leon BORNUS – Poland
Alfred BORCHERT – Germany
R. BOSC – France
Robert BOVEY – Switzerland
Clément BOUCHARDEAU – France
Paulina BUNEA – Romania
Alin CAILLAS – France
Silvestro CANNAMELA – Italy
Panuwan CHANTAWANNAKUL – Thailand
Rémy CHAUVIN – France
Theodore CHERBULIEZ – USA
José Gomercindo CORRÊA da CUNHA – Brazil
Ethel Eva CRANE – United Kingdom
Anton DEMIANOWICZ – Poland
Keith M. DOULL – Australia
Erika DUMITRASCU – Romania
Maria ESTREMERA y TRAGÓ de CABEZAS – Spain
Clayton Leon FERRAR – USA
Karl A. FORSTER – Switzerland
Nicolae FOTII – Romania
John B. FREE – United Kingdom
Franco FRILLI – Italy
Karl von FRISCH – Germany
Giulia GIORDANI – Italy
Fridolin GNÄDINGER – Germany
James Isaac HAMBLETON – USA
Åke HANSSON – Sweden
Veceslav HARNAJ – Romania
Karl KEHRLE / brother Adam – United Kingdom
Sándor KOCSIS – Hungary
Ryszard KOSTECKI – Poland
Marshall D. LEVIN – USA
Rolf LUNDER – Norway
Otto MacKENSEN – USA
Philip McCABE – Ireland
Oddo MARINELLI – Italy
Eugen MARZA – Romania
Anna MAURIZIO – Switzerland
Otto MORGENTHALER – Switzerland
Piotr Ivanovich MOROZOV – USSR
Roger A. MORSE – USA
​Antal NIKOWICZ – Hungary
Zoltán OROSI-PÁL – Hungary
Henryk OSTACH – Poland
Karl-Ludwig PFEFFERLE – Germany
Emil PLANCKH – Austria
James Irvin POWERS – USA
Louis Rudolph Jules RIDDER van RAPPARD – Netherlands
Friedrich RUTTNER – Austria
Erich SCHIEFERSTEIN – Germany
Børge SCHWARTZ-HANSEN – Denmark
Oscar SCHWINT-ESCALANTE – Argentina
Mihaela ŞERBAN – Romania
Marinus Jan SOMMEIJER – Netherlands
Henning U. SPITZNAGEL – Canada
Alexander N. STRATTON – United Kingdom
Ðuro SULIMANOVIĆ – Croatia
Jaroslav SVOBODA – Czechoslovakia
Gheorghi Filipovici TARANOV – USSR
Cecil Charles TONSLEY – United Kingdom
Alexander TOSHKOV – Bulgaria
Gordon F. TOWNSEND – Canada
Cyrille VAILLANCOURT – Canada
Kalevi VESTERINEN – Finland
Hideo WATANABE – Japan
Helmuth WIESE – Brazil
Jerzy WOYKE – Poland
Karl WYDER – Switzerland
Bahri YILMAZ – Turkey
Antonio ZAPPI-RECORDATI – Italy
Rade ZIVANOVIC – Yugoslavia