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Organización transnacional para la divulgación y difusión de la gastronomía en el mundo como valor social y cultural, como motor económico y de empleo, como recurso turístico y como fuente de vida saludable.
Internationell Organisation för diffusion av gastronomi runt om i världen som socialt och kulturellt värde, som ekonomi och sysselsättning, som en resurs för turism
och en källa till hälsosam livsstil.
Gastronominin dünyada; sosyal ve kültürel bir değer, ekonomik büyüme ve istihdama yönlendiren bir unsur, turistler ve sağlıklı yaşam için bir kaynak olmasını amaçlayan uluslararası bir organizasyondur.
Organisation transnationale pour la divulgation et la diffusion de la gastronomie dans le monde comme une valeur sociale et culturelle, comme moteur de l’économie et de l’emploi, comme ressource touristique
et comme source de vie saine.
以世界美食來推動多源文化價值的跨國組織，我們將積極加強經濟增長、創造就業機會、及提升旅游資源和健康生活的源泉。
एक अंतराष्ट्रीय संस्था जो कि विश्व में पाक कला के द्वारा सामाजिक व सांस्कृतिक मूल्यों का प्रसार तथा आर्थिक विकास एवं रोजगार में वृद्धि व पर्यटन संसाधनों के द्वारा स्वस्थ जीवन शैली को आधार प्रदान करती है ।
Eine transnationale Organisation mit dem Ziel, den gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Wert der Gastronomie auf der ganzen Welt bekannt und bewusst zu machen und zu zeigen, dass dieser Wert als Wirtschaftsmotor Arbeitsplätze schafft, eine Tourismusressource darstellt und eine Quelle für einegesunde Lebensweise bildet.
المنظمة الوطنية للإفصاح تذوق الطعام الغذاء في العالم، عبرالقيمة الاجتماعية والثقافية، واقتصادية وفرص العمل كمورد للسياحة ومصدرا للحياة صحي
Organização internacional para a divulgação e difusão da gastronomia no mundo, como valor social e cultural, como meio económico e do emprego, e como recurso turístico e fonte de vida saudável.
Transnational organisation for diffusion af Gastronomi i verden, som en social og kulturel ventil, som drivkraft for økonomisk vækst samt en turisme ressorce og en kilde til sund lisstil.
Транснациональная организация для развития и распространения гастрономии во всем мире как социальное и культурное значение, как двигатель для экономики и возможность увеличения рабочих мест,в качестве ресурса туризма и источник здорового образа жизни.
Organizatie internationala pentru a
difuza gastronomia in lume ca valoare
sociala si culturala ca motor economic si
de munca, ca recurs turistic si sursa de
viat a sanatoasa.
ארגון בינלאומי להפצה ופרסום הגסטרונומיה בעולם כערך חברתי ותרבותי, כמנוע כלכלי ותעסוקתי, כמשאב לעידוד התיירות וכמקור לחיים בריאיים
Organizzazione Internazionale per la divulgazione e diffusione della Gastronomia nel mondo come valore sociale, culturale, come sviluppo economico e opportunità di lavoro, come risorsa turistica e come fonte di benessere e salute.
Tổ chức xuyên quốc gia để phổ biến và phổ biến ẩm thực trên thế giới như là một giá trị xã hội và văn hoá, như là một động cơ kinh tế và việc làm, như một nguồn tài nguyên du lịch và là một nguồn sống lành mạnh
The World Gastronomy Institute (WGI) is a transnational NGO with Consultative Status, accredited by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Affiliate Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Collaborator and a Member of the UNITWIN Network of the UNESCO Chair on Food, Culture and Development UOC.
The WGI since its foundation in 2007 collaborates, very actively, with Intergovernmental Organizations, Associations, Public Administrations (national governments, territorial and local administrative divisions) and Diplomatic Missions, also providing support to the business network relating to gastronomy.
World Gastronomy Institute, due to its international presence in the academic, research and development context, is considered the most influential gastronomic Organization in the world, usually intervening in more than a hundred projects simultaneously in dozens of countries.
Currently, more than a hundred Collaboration Agreements are in force, offering leadership and support to the food sector in advancing knowledge and local and global policies worldwide.
The spirit imbued by the founders has continued to be maintained and extended at the General Assemblies held, including the administrative restructuring in 2012 with the change of Headquarters to Spain, and there-foundation of the Organization in 2017, when it was approved to dissolve the Organizations and Local associations belonging to the WGI, constituting a single Global Entity.
It serves as a global forum for gastronomic policy issues and a practical source of knowledge through its activities and actions such as the organization and participation in meetings, seminars, conferences, events, contests, congress, publications, and educational initiatives. WGI encourages the implementation of a Global Code of Ethics for Gastronomy, to maximize the contribution of this discipline to socio-economic development, while minimizing its possible negative impacts, and is committed to promoting food as an instrument in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
WGI's messages and activities are of increasing importance today, in a globalized world where interconnections, geographic mobility, the need for sustainable development and diversity must serve as opportunities to build peace in people's minds.
A world where gastronomy has a preponderant role, since it intervenes in the social transformation and development of Humanity, in such crucial issues as: differentiation of national identity, strategic area of creating Wealth richness, setting up employment, source of healthy life, share and like essential food tourist agent; as academic and educational issues. And as fundamental element of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
OBJECTIVES
The Organizational Aims of the WGI are to promote and develop sustainable gastronomy -rational, thinking and responsible- to contribute to cultural and socioeconomic development, international understanding, peace, prosperity and universal respect for, and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. In pursuing these Aims, WGI gives particular attention to the interests of developing countries in the field of gastronomy, including Food in all its manifestations, the process of food production, culinary culture and its diversity, educational and informative models, Food Tourism, associations and institutional treatment, economic influences and, above all, in what affects people.
PRIORITIES
● Engaging with the Governments and Public Administrations and the private sector, regional and local food organizations, Academical and researcher institutions, civil society and the UN system to build a more sustainable, responsible and competitive gastronomic sector.
● Mainstreaming the food culture in the world agenda: Advocating the value of gastronomy as a driver of growth, its inclusion as a priority in national and international policies and the need to create a level playing field for the sector to develop and prosper, taking care of the earth, and working for the reduction of inequalities in the world.
● Fostering knowledge society, education and capacity building: Supporting actors to assess and address their needs in academic training, as well as providing networks, meeting and events for Creation and Exchange of knowledge, at the service of the majority.
●Improving gastronomic competitiveness: Getting better the cuality and sectorial competencies through knowledge creation and exchange, human resources development and the promotion of excellence in areas such as policy planning, statistics and market trends, sustainable food tourism development, marketing and promotion, product development and risk and crisis management.
● Constitute and build a meeting space in which to explore and unite International Relations and Gastronomy, being de facto a platform prepared to promote the analysis, study and divulgation of these matters, interrelated or converging
● To achieve the objectives, the WGI will seek: Gathering different internal actors in a forums of dialogue, organizing Meetings and Events. Generating academic documentation that serves as an international benchmark. Be a platform speaker to the social movements that promote the quality food and agriculture. Creating working groups with common interests. And advise the public and private sector involved, in institutional relations, communication, educational and organizational issues
The General Assembly is the principal gathering of the World Gastronomy Institute. It meets periodically to approve the budget and programme of work and to debate topics of vital importance to the food sector in related subjects such as culture, tourism, society, employment, health, economy, education and divulgation.
The General Assembly is responsible for selecting a Secretary-General and approvingthe lines for policy action and master guidelines of the Councils.
The WGI is coordinated by the Executive Council, which has a Steering Committee for conclusive decisions. The Institution has an Advisory Council organized in National Delegates, Delegate Ambassadors and Advisors. The only difference in the classification is that the National Delegates have a more executive role, the Ambassadors a more representative role and the Advisors a consultative role.
The Entity delegates some functions in different Subsidiary Organs such as the Committee on Education, the Commission of Divulgation and Communication, the World Committee on Ethics, Committee on Food Tourism, Committee on Hospitality and Hostelry Sector, Committee on Alcoholic Traditional Beverages, Intangible Heritage Committee and the Commission of Food Culture.
ATTENTION: Section in progress. The organization chart will be completed periodically.
Click on the Councils to see the short CVs of the Members.
Executive Council / Steering Committee
José Manuel Iglesias
Secretary-General
Blanca Berrón
Vice-President of Communication
and Publications
Chandra Shamsher
Associate Vice-President in India
Rosa Santofimia
Deputy Director of the
General Secretariat Office
Carlos Durán
Institutional Advisor on
Culinary Issues
Frédéric Duhart
Institutional Advisor on
Academic Affairs
Antonio Pérez
Deputy Director of the
General Secretariat
Víctor García
Communication Consultant
Gumer Guerra
Communication Consultant
Luis Tesón
Corporate Vice-President
José Ramón de Elías
Senior Vice-President of Legal Affairs
Gabriel Leonart
Associate Vice-President in Chile
Juan Miguel Castillo
Director of Translation Services
Joaquín de Toro
Executive Director of
Corporate Security
Jocelyne Napoli
Institutional Advisor on
Academic Affairs
Almudena Villegas
Gastronomic Culture
Consultant
Isaac Abad
Consultant on Image Affair
Satur Cantó
Commercial Relations Manager
Board and Subsidiary Organs
F. Xavier Medina
President of Committee
on Education
David Basilio
President of Committee on
Hospitality and Hostelry Sector
Jordi Tresserras
President of Committee
on Food Tourism
Isabel Mijares
President of Committee on
Alcoholic Traditional Beverages
Special Consultants
John Clancy
Special Consultant on Institutional
Affairs in Culinary Arts
Manesh Fernando
Special Advisor on
International Hospitality
Roy D. Palmer
Special Consultant on Seafood Affairs
Juan José Burgos
Senior Vice-President of Ethics and
Gastronomic Culture
Enrique Fernández
Associate Vice-President of Traditional Alcoholic Beverages Affairs
Gaspar Ros
Associate Vice-President of
Academic Affairs
Sara Carducci
Consultant on Institutional Affairs
Marios D. Sotiriadis
Special Consultant in
Academic Affairs
Juan Suárez
Director of Institutional
Security Affairs
Tamara Cotarelo
Business Relations
Manager
Rosa María González
Institutional Advisor on
Academic Affairs
Lluís García
President of Intangible
Heritage Committee
Luis Alves
Director-General of Culinary Relations
Delegate Ambassador Portugal
Advisory Council
Delegate Ambassadors / National Delegates
Thomas A. Gugler
Honorary
Ambassador
Donna J. Keren
Delegate Ambassador
USA
Florencio Sanchidrián
Special Ambassador of
Gastronomic Culture
Manfred Muellers
Delegate Ambassador
South Africa
Adolfo Muñoz
Delegate Ambassador
Spain
Nhi Nguyen Thi Hong
Delegate Ambassador
Vietnam
Filiz Hösükoğlu
National Delegate
Turkey
Akamine Jun (赤嶺淳)
National Delegate
Japan
Hanhee Hahm
National Delegate
South Korea
Laura Pérez-Orta
National Delegate
Venezuela
Anita Stewart
National Delegate
Canada
Ragnar Fridriksson
International
Ambassador
Tracey Santiago
Delegate Ambassador
Philippines
Fiorella Dallari
Delegate Ambassador
Italy
Miloš Lachkovič
Delegate Ambassador
Slovakia
Tahir Amiraslanov
Delegate Ambassador
Azerbaijaz
Emrah Köksal
Delegate Ambassador
Turkey
Gladys Pérez-Ferrando
National Delegate
Argentina
María Galán
National Delegate
Colombia
Patricia Fernández
National Delegate
Peru
Carlos Amezquita
National Delegate
Colombia
Saurabh Kumar Dixit
Delegate Ambassador
India
Sidney C. H. Cheung
Delegate Ambassador
China
Mauro J. Ferreira
Delegate Ambassador
Brazil
Erich Glavica
Delegate Ambassador
Croatia
Gary Filbey
Delegate Ambassador
United Kingdom
Paul Christiaan Klieger
Delegate Ambassador
Hawaii (USA)
Carlos Fernandes
National Delegate
Portugal
Roberta Curiazi
National Delegate
Ecuador
Jean Paulin Mengue
National Delegate
Cameroon
Daniel Negreira
National Delegate
Taiwan - ROC
Advisory Members
Olivia Bringas
Advisory Member
México
Robbie Postma
Advisory Member
Netherlands
Americo DiFronzo
Advisory Member
USA
Rosana Mazaro
Advisory Member
Brazil
Zdravko Krnjajić
Advisory Member
Slovenia
Kristine Oevreboe
Advisory Member
Norway
Uros Urosevic
Advisory Member
Serbia
Nihal Kadıoğlu Çevik
Advisory Member
Turkey
C
Jennifer Kim Lian Chan
Advisory Member
Malaysia
Mª Luisa Safont
Advisory Member
Spain
José Maria Egea
Advisory Member
Spain
Antonio P. Russo
Advisory Member
Spain
Álvaro Arriola
Advisory Member
Mexico
João Pedro Gomes
Advisory Member
Portugal
Christian Holvoet
Advisory Member
Chile
Patrick Strefford
Advisory Member
Japan
Fransisca Wijanarko
Advisory Member
Indonesia - Singapore
Elisa Magnani
Advisory Member
Italy
Nithyanandan Mohan
Advisory Member
India
Ticiana Oliveira
Advisory Member
Brazil
Knud-Erik Larsen
Advisory Member
Denmark
Alessandro Dirienzo
Advisory Member
Italy
Paul E. Siserman
Advisory Member
Romania
Sara Nässén
Advisory Member
Sweden
Georgine Leung
Advisory Member
United Kingdom
Marianela Olivares
Advisory Member
Spain
Antonella Pellettieri
Advisory Member
Italy
Antonio Khalaf
Advisory Member
Spain
Chindu Chandran
Advisory Member
India
Alejandro Ordás
Advisory Member
Spain
Julio Quiroz de la Rosa
Advisory Member
Chile
Ana Paula Guimarães
Advisory Member
Portugal
Angelo Vettese
Advisory Member
Italy
Larisa Veselova
Advisory Member
Russia
Robert Gelinas
Advisory Member
Malaysia
Gisela Dezillio
Advisory Member
USA
Danijela Pantic
Advisory Member
Serbia
Tsuchiya Naofumi
Advisory Member
Japan
Antonio J. Gras
Food Culture
Advisor
Isabel Gimeno
Advisory Member
Spain
Olivier Michils
Advisory Member
Belgium
Ernesto Di Renzo
Advisory Member
Italy
Rosa Román
Advisory Member
Spain
Alejandra Feldman
Advisory Member
Spain
Lara González
Advisory Member
United Kingdom
Roberta Garibaldi
Advisory Member
Italy
Hiroko Sasaki
Advisory Member
Japan
Kamaleswar Kalita
Advisory Member
India
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We are in 46 countries
Argentina - Australia - Azerbaijan - Belgium - Brazil - Cameroon - Canada
Chile - China - Colombia - Croatia - Denmark - Ecuador - France
Germany - Greece - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Ireland - Italy
Japan - Malaysia - Mexico - Netherlands - Norway - Perú - Philippines
Portugal - ROC Taiwan - Romania - Russia - Serbia - Singapore - Slovakia
Slovenia - South Africa - South Korea - Spain - Sri Lanka - Sweden -Turkey
United Kingdom - Unites States of America - Venezuela - Vietnam
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