{"id":68,"date":"2025-10-22T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:45:11","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/about\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who we are<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Apimondia is the International Federation of Beekeepers\u2019 Associations and other organisations working within the apiculture sector since 1895. Apimondia is a non-governmental organisation that brings together beekeepers, manufacturers of beekeeping equipment and a wide variety of scientists involved in apiculture, apitherapy, pollination, development and economics.<\/p>

Apimondia is led by a President, a Vice-President, and a Secretary, who work together to guide the Federation\u2019s global initiatives. Our structure also includes seven Scientific Commissions and five Regional Representatives, ensuring expertise and representation from all parts of the beekeeping world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Executive council<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Acting President<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr. Peter Kozmus<\/strong>
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Secretary-General<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Riccardo Jannoni-Sebastianini<\/strong>
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Dean<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Asger S\u00f8gaard J\u00f8rgensen<\/strong>
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Scientific commissions<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Beekeeping economy<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Norberto Luis Garcia<\/strong>
Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bah\u00eda Blanca. ARGENTINA. economy@apimondia.org<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Bee Biology<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr Gennaro Di Prisco<\/strong>
Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection National Research Council, Italy
beebiology@apimondia.org<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Bee Health<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr Fani Hatjina<\/strong>
Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”,\u00a0Greece
beehealth@apimondia.org<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi<\/strong>
Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos, Naturales Agroecolog\u00eda y Desarrollo Rural (IRNAD),\u00a0Argentina
pollination@apimondia.org<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Technology and quality<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Prof. Miguel Vilas Boas<\/strong>
Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources
Polytechnic University of Bragan\u00e7a, Portugal
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Dr J\u00e1nos K\u00f6rmendy-R\u00e1cz<\/strong>
Hungary
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Megan Denver<\/strong>
Bees for Development
United States
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Africa<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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David Mukomana<\/strong>
Harare,\u00a0Zimbabwe
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Americas<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Lucas Martinez<\/strong>
Buenos-Aires,\u00a0Argentina
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Asia<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr. Orawan Duangphakdee<\/strong>
Thailand
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Europe<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Robert Chlebo<\/strong>
Slovak University of Agriculture, Slovakia
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Oceania<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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John Caldeira<\/strong>
Fiji
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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\u00a0– Vietnam
Don DIXON – Canada
Stephen FEWSTER – Australia
Pierre GIOVENAZZO – Canada
Karel F. L. GLADINES – Belgium
Jodie GOLDSWORTHY – Australia
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Taissija I. GUBINA – Russia
Asger S\u00f8gaard J\u00d8RGENSEN – Denmark
Edmund Nigel LEAR – South Africa
Lucas Daniel MART\u00cdNEZ – Argentina
Cristina MATEESCU – Romania
Diego PAGANI – Italy
Miloslav PEROUTKA – Czechia
Lojze PETERLE – Slovenia
Jeffery S. PETTIS – USA
Gilles RATIA – France
Ziha \u015eAHIN – Turkey
Georges V. SELLIANAKIS – Greece
Franc \u0160IVIC – Slovenia
Werner STERN – Switzerland
Octaaf VAN LAERE – Belgium
Tetyana VASYLKIVSKA – Ukraine
Rudolf VERHEYEN – Belgium
Laiq Ram VERMA – India
WOO Kun-Suk\u00a0– South-Korea
Geraldine A. WRIGHT – USA
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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
Cl\u00e9ment BOUCHARDEAU – France
Paulina BUNEA – Romania
Alin CAILLAS – France
Silvestro CANNAMELA – Italy
Panuwan CHANTAWANNAKUL – Thailand
R\u00e9my CHAUVIN – France
Theodore CHERBULIEZ – USA
Jos\u00e9 Gomercindo CORR\u00caA da CUNHA – Brazil
Ethel Eva CRANE – United Kingdom
Anton DEMIANOWICZ – Poland
Keith M. DOULL – Australia
Erika DUMITRASCU – Romania
Maria ESTREMERA y TRAG\u00d3 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 GN\u00c4DINGER – Germany
James Isaac HAMBLETON – USA
\u00c5ke HANSSON – Sweden
Veceslav HARNAJ – Romania
Karl KEHRLE \/ brother Adam – United Kingdom
S\u00e1ndor KOCSIS – Hungary
Ryszard KOSTECKI – Poland
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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
\u200bAntal NIKOWICZ – Hungary
Zolt\u00e1n OROSI-P\u00c1L – 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
B\u00f8rge SCHWARTZ-HANSEN – Denmark
Oscar SCHWINT-ESCALANTE – Argentina
Mihaela \u015eERBAN – Romania
Marinus Jan SOMMEIJER – Netherlands
Henning U. SPITZNAGEL – Canada
Alexander N. STRATTON – United Kingdom
\u00d0uro SULIMANOVI\u0106 – 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
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Who we are Apimondia is the International Federation of Beekeepers\u2019 Associations and other organisations working within the apiculture sector since 1895. Apimondia is a non-governmental organisation that brings together beekeepers, manufacturers of beekeeping equipment and a wide variety of scientists involved in apiculture, apitherapy, pollination, development and economics. Apimondia is led by a President, a […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/2232"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.site\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}