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

Jocie Bussin (Canada), Retired Restaurant Owner and Chef

Jane Cassell (United Kingdom), IT Consultant

Rachad Challah (Panama), Consultant

Martin Christy (United Kingdom), Seventy%, Permanent Grand Jury

Jennifer Earle (United Kingdom), Chocolate Ecstasy Tours, Chocolate Ecstasy Tours

George Gensler (United States), Manhattan Chocolate Society, Permanent Grand Jury

Carolina Giraldo (United Kingdom), LaSierra.co, LaSierra.co

Ana González Rodríguez (Spain), Basque Culinary Center – Docente en pastelería.

Jeffrey Lee (Hong Kong), Cult de Choco Ltd. / Director, Cult de Choco

Per Liss (Sweden), Chokladakademien, Chokladakademien

Bining Lu (Australia), Social Work

Monica Meschini (Italy), Chocolate/Tea Taster, Wine Sommelier, Permanent Grand Jury

Liudmila Musatova (Italy), Food stylist

Karen Ormiston (United Kingdom), The Olive oil Taster

Diana Perez (United Kingdom), Tea Buyer & Tea Sommelier

Giacomo Pischiutti (United Kingdom), Corporate Chef Consultant UNOX UK / Pastry Chef

Alex Rast (United Kingdom), Consultant, Reviewer, Seventy% , Permanent Grand Jury

Juan Rubio Eguiluz (Spain), Wikichoco

Joy Skipper (United Kingdom), Food and Nutrition Consultant, Joy Skipper

PANSOPIN SUPAPPANIT (Thailand), Central Retail Corporation/HR

Svein-Magnus Sørensen (Norway), Founder and Chief Tasting Officer, Sjokoladesmaking.no

Marc Torrano García-Penche (Spain), The Cacao Society

Terese Weiss (Denmark), Interpreter / Chocolate Educator

Giselle Weybrecht (Australia), indendent author/researcher