2019 Jury Members

Cibele Maciet

Harper's Bazaar Brasil

Journalist and international correspondent for more than 10 years for the Hearst Group magazines: Harper’s Bazaar Brasil. Cibele is in charge of tourism, gastronomy, Art, lifestyle and fashion. She shares those news also on her very active blog followed by more than 85.000 followers: www.blogdacibele.com - @cibelemaciet

Laith Bazari

Al Arabiya News Channel

Exclusive correspondent of Al Arabiya News TV with a medium range of minimum 50 million viewers every day in Middle-East. Laith is specialized in lifestyle, travel, gastronomy, design, fashion and art de vivre.  He travels worldwide in the trendiest luxury hotels.

Elke Büchter

Mediagroup RTL Germany

Elke is a German TV journalist and works for more than 20 years at N° 1 TV Network in Germany: RTL mediagroup. She is based in Cologne as officially TV senior correspondent and covers all important stories in Europe and all over the world.

Sandra Iskander

Where Magazine

Chief Editor at Where Magazine, the most read monthly magazine by tourist travelers worldwide. Sandra is also Chief Editor for Where Russia, Where China and for all the editions in Spanish for South-America area.

Paolo Levi,

ANSA, La Stampa

Paolo Levi holds degrees in Political Sciences at University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Paolo, former Brussels correspondent for the EU institutions located in Brussels, is correspondent in France for the Italian Press Agency “ANSA” and contributes to the newspaper La Stampa.

Katie Kelly Bell

Forbes

Atlanta-based journalist and regular contributor to several global and national outlets including Forbes.com, USA Today, Modern Luxury and Wine Enthusiast. Katie is also the co-author of The Everything Guide to Ireland and holds the MAGS Association Magnolia Award for excellence in writing and editing. Her specialties include luxury travel and wine and spirits travel.

Anne-Laure Le Gall

PARIS-MATCH

Her magic world ? Boarding pass ! Anne-Laure is heading the Paris-Match travel and lifestyle section for more than 16 years. As far as circulation is concerned Paris-Match is by far the N° 1 printed news magazine in France. 

Maurice Beaudoin

Le Figaro Magazine

Villegiature Awards jury member in 2003, year of their creation, and then replaced during several years by Anne-Marie Grué-Gélinet, Maurice Beaudoin is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Le Figaro Magazine. He oversees more particularly all the columns regarding gastronomy.

Jean Grogan

Financial Times
"How to Spend it ?"

Irish journalist based in Paris, contributes regularly to Monocle UK and to the “How to spend it ?” column of the Financial Times

Ilker Topdemir

Harper’s Bazaar Turquie

For more then 10 Years Ilker Topdemir has been writing about luxury travel destinations around the world. Ilker has been a Travel creator for many TV stars and business men. He has covered The Oscars for 3 straight years and stayed in almost all of the most expensive and known suites around the world...In addition he has opened booking.com office in Turkey.

Sylvie Adigard

France Televisions

Sylvie Adigard reports every week about design, architecture and art professions on France 2 TV within the most popular TV morning broadcast in France “Telematin” and “C’est au Programme”. Sylvie also produces docs about design, architecture and handicraft know hows through her TV production company Home et Images Productions.

Mario de Castro

Monocle
The World of Interiors

Editor-at-large for several iconic mostly dedicated to lifestyle, design, decoration and premium hospitality. Mario contributes regularly to AD magazines various editions. Photo Jean-Marie del Moral.

Boba Blašković

Dblog, Gloria

Boba Blašković, journalist, editor, stylist - has worked for the leading daily newspapers in Croatia (Jutarnji list), numerous Croatian magazines (Gloria, Grazia, 24 sata, Globus, Telegram...) covering interior, product design and lifestyle. She is the founder of the magazine Dom&Dizajn and Dblog – a leading design portal for interior design and home decoration, as well as architecture, lifestyle and real estate, reaching 150.000 page views per month. Boba is also art director in the O'snova platform - lifestyle & experience workshops. Boba has dedicated most of her time recently to Dblog as chief editor and collaborates with Gloria magazine, covering travel reports.

Chung-Tao HSIEH

CONDE NAST TRAVELER
Traveler Luxe Taiwan

Chung-Tao Hsieh contributes to the Chinese editions of Conde Nast Traveler. His is the editor for gastronomy about “Michelin Gourmet”, the monthly magazine Traveler-Luxe and “La Revue du Vin de France”. He is also anchor at Travel TV Channel Asia for several broadcoasts about “Art de Vivre à la française”.  “The starred restaurants by Chung-Tao” at Mook Publishings. Chung-Tao Hsieh is member of the prestigious "Who's Who Wine and Spirit Magazine".

Masae Hara

Crea Traveller
NikkeiLuxe
Bi Premium

Journalist contributor for famous Japanese fashion magazines, art de vivre media, gastronomy oriented magazines, Crea Traveller, Nikkei Luxe, Bi Premium Japan.

Rosario Salgueiro

RTP Televisao, Portugal

Correspondent in Paris for RTP, the 1st Portuguese television channel covering the whole current events in Europe. Rosario has a passion for travelling and has a good knowledge of the most beautiful hotels all over the world.

Helena Couffin

Departures Russia
Vedomosti : How to Spend It ?
Watch Russia

Being a PhD in social sciences, after she starts writing the journalism becomes a vocation. As international correspondent in France for a few high-end Russian magazines she explores the luxury industry for more than ten years. Most of all: lifestyle, design and premium hospitality.

Yasmine Bidar

Huffington Post

Based in Rabat. After a Master’s degree in political communication and a Master’s degree in military history and strategy of defense, Yasmine turned to journalism and report through Huffing Post. She travels extensively throughout the world and specifically Africa which has no more secret for her.

Marie Montuir

D8 TV -- France Inter

Marie Montuir: TV and radio journalist, Marie is also producer of several TV and radio broadcasts all liked to the universe of new design trends, creation, decoration, art de vivre and architecture.

Nelson Monfort

France Télévisions

Nelson Monfort is an extremely famous TV anchor within France Television various channels. He reports mainly for cultural and sportive events. Due to his professional obligations, Nelson is a grand specialist of hotels all over the world.

John Brunton

The Observer
The Guardian

Correspondent for The Guardian, The Observer, the National (Emirates), John contributes also contributes to Lonely Planet books of wine, food, drinks and travel His blog: www.thewinetatoo.com Social Media influence on Twitter: @thewinetattoo

Serge Barret

Voyages d'Affaires

Serge Barret is an expert of travel world for many years. Chief Editor at Voyages d’Affaires magazine, a unique media dedicated to business travelers using top airlines companies and innovative tools for traveling. www.voyages-d-affaires.com