H.E. Danilo Medina Sánchez
President of The Dominican Republic
H.E. Armand Armand Tafazy
Minister of Trade and Consumption, Madagascar
Luis K. Valverde
Vice Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Aquaculture, Ecuador
Jean-Marc Anga
Executive Director, ICCO
Benedict Okey Oramah
President, Afreximbank
Marina Korchynsky Morari
General Manager Community Development, Cocoa Sustainability, Barry Callebaut Sourcing
Manfred Borer
Programme Director, Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation (Swisscontact)
Jayne Crozier
Trade and Commodities Coordinator, CABI
Laurent Pipitone
Director of the Economics and Statistics Division, ICCO
Andrew Bovarnick
Global Head Green Commodities Programme & Lead Natural Resource Economist, UNDP
Vernon Barrett
Director, The Caribbean Fine Cocoa Forum
Jorge Redmond
President/CEO, Chocolate El Rey
Darin Sukha
Research Fellow/Food Technologist, Cocoa Research Centre, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago
Matthew Lynch
Consultant, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Isodoro De La Rosa
President, CONACADO
Nicko Debenham
VP Global Cocoa Sustainability & MD Biolands Group, Barry Callebaut
Paul Hadley
Director, Policy & Development , University of Reading
Verina Ingram
Assistant Professor, Wageningen UR
Claro Blacio
General Manager, International Agribusiness Consulting
Klaus Bernd Gehmann
Syngenta
H.K. Dzahini-Obiatey
Chief Research Scientist & Deputy Director, CRIG
Pamela Thornton
Armajaro Asset Management LLP
Albert Scalla
Senior Vice President, INTLFCstone
Wilbert Phillips-Mora
Head of Cacao Genetic Improvement Program, CATIE
Angelo Calmon de Sá
Agricola Cantagalo
Jennifer Golden
Monitoring & Evaluation Team Manager, World Cocoa Foundation
Noemi Crisostomo
Vice-President, Chocolate de la Cuenca de Altamira (CHOCAL)
Pierre Costet
Taste Master, Valrhona
Gricha Safarian
Managing Director, Puratos Grand-Place
Tim McCoy
Acting President, World Cocoa Foundation
Simon Brayn-Smith
Director of Cocoa Sustainability, Olam International
Taco Terheijden
Director of Cocoa Sustainability, Cargill
Jonas Mva Mva
Director Sustainable Development, Cémoi Group
Job Leuning
Sourcing Director, Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate
Jean Alain Rodríguez
Executive Director, CEI-RD, Dominican Republic
Massandje Touré-Litse
Director General, Conseil Café Cacao, Côte d’Ivoire
Philippe Bastide
Advisor for Cocoa Matters, CIRAD
Pablo Jenkins
Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), World Trade Organization (WTO)
Rolando Ureña Aguilar
Commercial and Technical Manager Emerging Markets, Crop Nutrition, Yara
Tony Lass MBE
Chairman, Cocoa Research Association Ltd. (CRA Ltd.)
Judith Ganes-Chase
President, J. Ganes Consulting, LLC
Gary Guittard
CEO & President, Guittard Chocolate Company
Michiel Hendriksz
Executive Director, FarmStrong Foundation
Henry Allard
General Director, Filhet Allard
Antonie Fountain
Managing Director, VOICE Network
Abraham Adusei
Award-winning cocoa farmer, Ghana
Sona Ebai
Chief of Party - African Cocoa Initiative, WCF
Victor Ganoza
Country Director, Technoserve, Peru
Anna Laven
Senior Advisor, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
Jose Jarrin
Country Manager, Netafim Ecuador S.A.
Francis Baah
Executive Director, Cocoa Health and Extension Division, Ghana Cocoa
Naailah Aminah Ali
Contract Officer, Food Technology Section, Cocoa Research Centre, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago
Han de Groot
Executive Director, UTZ
Omer Gatien Maledy
Executive Secretary, Interprofessional Cocoa and Coffee Council (CICC)
Sayina Riman
President, Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN)
Joseph Larrose
Director, Sustainable Sourcing Department, Touton S.A.
Eduardo A. Cortés Shehab
Vice President of Operations, Cortés Hermanos & Co.
Viwanou Gnassounou
Assistant Secretary-General, Sustainable Economic Development and Trade, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
Hector Jose Rizek Sued
Director, Comisión Nacional Del Cacao
Freddy Benito Cabello Luna
UNOCACE, Ecuador
Saud Alfian
PEKANOS, Malaysia
Mathias Massande
Cooperative Mokabo, Gabon
Agró Ángel Estévez Bourdierd
Minister of Agriculture, The Dominican Republic
Jean-Louis Billon
Minister of Commerce, Côte d’Ivoire
Barry Parkin
Chairman, World Cocoa Foundation (WCF)
Martin Gilmour
Cocoa Sustainability R&D Director, Mars Global Chocolate
Yté Wongbé
General Director, CNRA
Brigitte Laliberté
Scientist, Bioversity International
François Ruf
Economist, CIRAD
Douglas Hawkins
Managing Director, Hardman Agribusiness
Jose Iturrios Padilla
Director, Peru Cocoa Alliance
Edward S. Seguine
Seguine Consultancy
Fred Frimpong
Programme Manager “MASO” Ghana, Solidaridad
Simran Sethi
Author, Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
Jack Steijn
Chair, CEN/ISO committees on Sustainable and Traceable Cocoa
Han Loke Fong
Senior Economist, ICCO
Friedel Hütz-Adams
Senior Researcher, Südwind e.V
Frédéric Wenger
Head of Research, Cocoa, Olam International
Edmond Konan
Executive Director, World Cocoa Farmers' Organization
Nick Weatherill
Executive Director, International Cocoa Initiative
Emmanuel Opoky
Ghana Cocoa Board
Conradin Rasi
Deputy Head of Economic, Finance, Science & Development Section, Switzerland Embassy in London
Martin Christy
Chair, Direct Cacao
Torben Erbrath
Director, BDSI
Jack Skelly
Food Analyst, Euromonitor International
Christian Bunn
Researcher, International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Juan A. Cueollo Ortiz
Executive Secretary, Comisión National del Cacao
Haya Ramba
Director of Biology Division, Malaysian Cocoa Board
Cathy Pieters
Director, Cocoa Life Program, Mondelez International
Toussaint N'Guessan
President, World Cocoa Producers'Organization
Isodoro de la Rosa
Executive Director, CONACADO
Gary Guittard
CEO & President, Guittard Chocolate Company
Tony Lass
Chairman, Cocoa Research Association
Sabine Nafziger
Secretary General, CAOBISCO
Jean-Marie Delon
Cocoa Sustainability Lead, Cargill
Jeffrey Hayward
VP, Design & Innovation, Global Climate Lead, Rainforest Alliance
Dick de Graaf
Coordinator, Cocoa Steering Committee, EFFAT
Edouard Kouassi N’Guessan
Deputy Director General, Production Sustainability and Technical Operations, Conseil Café-Cacao, Côte d’Ivoire
Juan A. Cuello Ortiz
Executive Secretary, Comisión Nacional del Cacao, Dominican Republic
Emmanuel A Opoku
Deputy Director, Research (M&E), Ghana Cocoa Board, Ghana
Amani Konan
National Consultant, Office of the First Lady of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
Aarti Kapoor
Managing Director, Embode
Cedric van Cutsem
Cocoa Life Operations Manager, Mondelēz International
Federico Vignati
Principal Executive – Department of Environment and Climate Change, Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)
Escipion Oliveira
Deputy Executive Director, the Caribbean Export Development Agency
Catherine Entzminger
General Secretary, European Cocoa Association
Marie-Amélie Ormières
Cocoa Sourcing and Sustainability Manager, Puratos Group
Daniele Giovannucci
President, Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA)
Lucas Simons
Founder & CEO, Newforesight
Assamoi Robert Yapo
Director for Sustainability, Partnerships and Projects, Conseil Café-Cacao, Côte d’Ivoire
Christian Robin
Programme Manager, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Switzerland
Jean-Marie Delon
Cocoa Sustainability Lead, Côte d’Ivoire, Cargill
Sabine Nafziger
Secretary General, Caobisco
Dick de Graff
Coordinator, Cocoa Steering Committee, EFFAT
Alex Bruijnis
Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands – EU Chair of the Commodities Working Party - Chairman, International Cocoa Council (ICCO)
Viwanou Gnassounou
Assistant Secretary General African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
Miguel Obando
Deputy Secretary, Nicaraguan Institute for Agricultural and Livestock Technology (INTA), Nicaragua
Mireille Madeleine Kende
Cocoa farmer, Cameroon
Amy Guittard
Director of Marketing, Guittard Chocolate Company
José Tomas Cedeño Cedeño
Cooperative UNPROCAFA, Ecuador
Evans Tagbor
President, Akuafo Anigye Young Cocoa Farmers Association, Ghana
Elvira Ac Macz
Community Cloudforest Conservation, Guatemala
Frank Homann
Founder and CEO, Xoco
