Judges – Asia-Pacific – Bean-to-bar and Chocolatier Competition 2019
As part of our commitment to transparency, we publish the names of the judges for each competition. (If judges opt-in for their names to be made public.)
Each competition is judged by a panel of experts, food journalists, sommeliers and pastry chefs, including the names listed below. The competition is overseen by members of our international Grand Jury, who travel to each competition.
We would like to thank our judges for their hard work, including any who chose for their names not to be listed. You can find the full list of winners for this competition in our ‘Rounds & results’ section.
Cat Black (United Kingdom), Food Writer, Food writer
June Chan (Hong Kong), Clinical Dietitian
Christy Chan (Hong Kong), Chocolatey Christy, Chocolatey.Christy
Hilda Chan (Hong Kong), My Chocolate Diary
Martin Christy (United Kingdom), Seventy%, Permanent Grand Jury
Christine Fan (Hong Kong), Banking
George Gensler (United States), Manhattan Chocolate Society, Permanent Grand Jury
Kuo Jung Huang (Taiwan), Cacao Family / Sales Manager
Elizabeth Kao (Taiwan), Food Writer, Taster 美食加
Jeffrey Lee (Hong Kong), Cult de Choco Ltd. / Director, Cult de Choco
Hsin I 欣宜 Lin 林 (Taiwan), Pastry Shop Owner
Monica Meschini (Italy), Chocolate/Tea Taster, Sommelier, Permanent Grand Jury
Daphne Ng (Hong Kong), Media
Antonio Orria (United Kingdom), The Gentlemen Baristas
Maricel Presilla (United States), Chef, Restaurateur, Author, Permanent Grand Jury
Alex Rast (United Kingdom), Consultant, Reviewer, Seventy% , Permanent Grand Jury
Gilda Sandique (Philippines), Chef-Consultant/Lead Trainer
Michaela Schupp (Germany), Chocolats-de-luxe.de, Chocolats-de-luxe.de
Terese Weiss (Denmark), Interpreter / Chocolate Educator
Hoi-Man Daisy Yeung (Hong Kong), Clinical Psychologist