2022 Jury Members

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.

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.

Cibele Maciet

Harper's Bazaar Brasil

Journalist for more than 15 years and international correspondent for Harper’s Bazaar Brasil. Cibele is in charge of tourism, culture, art, gastronomy, lifestyle and fashion. She shares and broadcasts news on her social networks followed by more than 90,000 followers: @cibelemaciet.

Meliza Guidjou

TV5 Monde

Meliza Guidjou is deputy Chief Editor of the « Tendance XX » program broadcast for 7 years on TV5monde television network, the French channel with 250 million weekly viewers. Specialized in art of living, she is passionate about fashion, travel and crafts.

Elke Büchter

Mediagroup RTL Television 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.

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. 

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".

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

Carla Diamanti

La Stampa, Donna Moderna, Touring Magazine

Born in Rome, she lives in Paris, travels the world and contributes to several Italian magazines such as La Stampa, Donna Moderna, Touring Magazine, Vanityfair.it. Her columns for Food Confidential focus on gastronomy, hotels and lifestyle. Specialized in Tourism, she is also a Travel Coach® and a lecturer at the University of Turin.

Nicolas Jimenez Roldán

Destination Mexique

Managing Director of the travel magazine Destination Mexico. Founder and editor of several magazines (“Paris/México”, “Revista Latina”, “Latinoscope”), journalist and correspondent in France for several dailies in Mexico.

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.

Vanessa Zha

Europe1

Journalist for over 20 years on Radio Europe1. Vanessa oversees travel, escapes, culture, heritage, gastronomy, lifestyle, architecture and decoration.

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.

Elena Couffin

L'Officiel Monaco
The M.O.S.T. Azerbaïdjan

Being a PhD in social sciences, after she starts writing, the journalism becomes a vocation. Elena is representative in France of the magazines L'Officiel Monaco and The M.O.S.T. Azerbaijan.

Paolo Levi

ANSA italian press agency,
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.

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.

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.

Olivier Reneau

IDEAT, The Good Life
LE FIGARO MAGAZINE, LeFigaro.fr

Passionate about contemporary art, architecture and design, Olivier Reneau gradually broadened his practice of writing about travel, gastronomy or even wines and spirits. He is a regular journalist contributor to Le Figaro Magazine, figaro.fr and IDEAT as well as The Good Life magazines. He also contributes to the Relais & Châteaux publications « Instants » and Racines (Vente à la Propriété). In addition, he participates in the writing of the gastronomic guides Lebey (France) and Identità Golose (Italy).

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

Rémi Dechambre

Le Parisien, Guide Lebey

Rémi Dechambre is a gastronomic journalist in Paris – Aujourd’hui France Week-end and he writes critics for Lebey guides. He also regularly contributes to the art de vivre and travel pages of many magazines including Valeurs Actuelles, Le temps d'un voyage and Cuisines (R)évolution.

Mario de Castro

The World of Interiors
SOON

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

Hugues ROY

L’Officiel Maroc

Free spririt and citizen of the world specializing in lifestyle, design, fashion and luxury hotels, Hugues Roy began his career as a journalist based in Paris France (for magazines Elle, Marie Claire Maison, and for France 2) . He moved to Morocco in 2004, between Essaouira and Casablanca. Presently Editor-in-chief of L'Officiel Maroc, Moroccan leader of the women’s premium press, Hugues also uses his writing talents for the publishing and editorial communication of prestigious brands, both in print and on the worldwideweb.