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ASI Board
Executive Board //
Treasurer:
Philippe Faure-Brac
(France)
Deputy Treasurer:
Samuil Angelov
(Finland)
Vice-president for Asia & Oceania:
Saiko Tamura-Soga
(Japan)
Vice-president for Africa & Middle East:
Michèle Aström Chantôme
(Morocco)
Vice-president for Europe:
Piotr Kamecki
(Poland)
Vice-president for the Americas:
Marcos Flores Tlalpan
(Mexico)
ASI Committees //
Marketing
- Director: Claire Berticat (Belgium)
- Social Media and Communication: Xeniya Volosnikova
- ASI Mag Editor: Mark DeWolf (Canada)
- Contest communication manager: Liora Levi (Norway)
- Translation support; ASI Ambassador: Michèle Aström Chantôme (Morocco)
- Press Officer: Barbara Wanner (Germany)
- Translation support: Manuel Negrete (Mexico)
ByLaws
- Director: Higgo Jacobs (South Africa)
- Gérard Devos (Belgium)
- Michel Hermet (France)
- Georgios Kassianos (Cyprus)
Ethics & Compliance
- Director: Ricardo Grellet (Chile)
- Samuil Angelov (Finland)
- Alba E. H. Hough (Iceland)
- Higgo Jacobs (South Africa)
- Renata Moreti (Chile)
Diversity
- Director: Heleen Boom (Netherlands)
- Sarah Andrew (Australia)
- Alba E. H. Hough (Iceland)
- Jorald Julie (Mauritius)
- Jan Konetzki (UK)
- Mirko Pastorelli (Italy)
Should support from the Diversity Committee be required due to harassment, bullying, discrimination, etc. a line of contact can easily be established.
All reports will be handled with discretion and anonymity.
Liaison Officer for Sommelier Contests – Education – Exam Committees
- Tim Vollerslev (Denmark)
Sommelier Contests
- Co-Directors: Olivier Poussier (France) & Shinya Tasaki (Japan)
- Coordination: Saiko Tamura-Soga (Japan)
- Logistics: Dejan Zivkoski (Serbia)
- Paolo Basso (Switzerland)
- Markus Del Monego (Germany)
- Serge Dubs (France)
- Andreas Larsson (Sweden)
- Paz Levinson (Argentina / France)
- Heidi Makinen (Finland)
- Veronique Rivest (Canada)
- Arvid Rosengren (Sweden)
Education
- Director: Sören Polonius (Sweden)
- Marc Almert (Germany)
- Nelson Chow (Hong Kong)
- Celia Hay (New Zealand)
- Maria Laura Ortiz (Argentina)
- Beáta Vlnková (Slovakia)
Exams
- Director: Giuseppe Vaccarini (Italy)
- Logistics: Alberto Merico (Italy) / Jean-Vincent Ridon (Zimbabwe)
- Proofreading EN: Romané Basset (UK)
- Michèle Chantôme (Morocco)
- Leo D’Addazio (Venezuela)
- Andreas Matthidis (Greece)
- Edwin Raben (Netherlands)
- Saiko Tamura-Soga (Japan)
- Kristjan Markii (Estonia)
- Ene Ojaveski (Estonia)