Amaryllis is the co-founder of Sanghata Global, a U.K. public charity that focuses on reducing poverty worldwide through entrepreneurship and enterprise development. Honorary Founding Member of The World Bee Project CIC, Amaryllis has created brand strategies and user experiences for multinational companies and has had extensive entrepreneurial success in the technology, media, lifestyle, and impact spaces, having co-founded Falcon Motorcycles, Altai Design, Amco Investment Corp, and numerous award-winning restaurants.

After its establishment in 2014, Sabiha invited Professor Simon Potts to join The World Bee Project as an honorary founding member advising on pollination and other ecosystem services in support of global food security. A Research Professor at the University of Reading, in 2016 Simon Potts co-chaired the first Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The evidence informed the 2019 IPBES report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Professor Potts’ multiple roles are listed here.

Andy Welch is a data and analytics specialist, who provides technology and data science support to The World Bee Project CIC. This includes helping to manage the World Hive Network data sets as well as providing analytics support for The World Bee Project’s global research projects. In the UK, Andy leads The World Bee Project’s  3 -year collaborative projects with the University of Reading and Oracle for Research, where we are helping to establish a new standard in optimal management of bee pollination to enable better crop yields whilst also ensuring a healthy and sustainable environment for wild bees and other insects.

Scott Horton is an attorney and legal academic whose work concentrates on international public and private law, natural resource development and human rights matters. He is Senior Consultant at DLA Piper Law Firm.  Scott’s clients have included the governments of Georgia, Guinea, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Taiwan and South Korea as well as AIG, CBS, EBRD, IFC, Newmont Mining, Shell Oil and the financier George Soros. DLA Piper Law Firm provide legal services pro bono to The World Bee Project.

Igor Kurdin is the founder and head of Amohive, an international team of electronic engineers, computer scientists, programmers and business analysts working together since  2015.  He is also the owner of IT Consulting, with 25+ years of experience in engineering and management. He has advanced expertise in telecommunications, electronics, software support systems and automation, and innovatively combining classical systems analysis and design methods. The Amohive team has experience in developing complex hardware and software solutions to monitor production processes in various areas.

George has advised The World Bee Project on hive monitoring technology since 2018. With decades of experience in working closely with beekeepers and scientists in Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand in a range of industry sectors, he has a deep understanding of the benefits of hive monitoring for beekeeping, bee research, agriculture and ecosystem management. George was part of the Arnia team responsible for several breakthroughs in the remote monitoring of bees and is now with Bee Hero. He is also a beekeeper with over 10 years’ experience.

Nicky Hoberman is an artist. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Nicky   has had a number of group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, New Zealand, and England.  In 1996 she was chosen for the 1996 New Contemporaries at Tate Liverpool.  She was also included in Saatchi’s “New Neurotic Realism” exhibition in 1998.  She participated in group shows in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria and Magasin 3 in Stockholm. Hoberman has also had three solo shows at Feigen Contemporary in New York.

Bálint initiated and leads our project in Hungary, in which the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Technology and Industry are open to cooperation at the national level. He has a Master’s degree in Agribusiness Management from the University of West Hungary and is a PhD candidate at Széchenyi István University. Bálint’s field of research is soil fertility and natural nutrient replenishment. He is currently working as an International Business Relations Manager at the Centre for University-Industry Cooperation at Széchenyi István University

Professor Goulson sees The World Bee Project as an opportunity to engage people in conservation and science and as a way to create a global data set that benefits science. Professor Goulson and his group study the ecology, behaviour and conservation of bumblebees and the impacts of pesticides on bumblebees at the Goulson Lab, University of Sussex. His popular science books include A Sting in the Tale and its sequel, A Buzz in the Meadow. 

Professor Raju, a leading authority on pollinator entomology and agricultural zoology, is a distinguished researcher who has won numerous honours including, most recently, the “Distinguished Scientist Award 2020” from the Green Agri Professional Society. Professor Raju has published three books and has two more on the way and has published multiple research papers.

Ben is an award-winning producer of television news and documentaries who travelled the world for 60 Minutes, CBS News, and NBC News. Over the past two decades, he combined war zones and political hot spots with magazine projects ranging from ambitious investigations to explorations of science and culture. Passionate about investigative journalism and focussed on human rights, conservation and the environment, he has won numerous industry awards, including four Emmys, a Peabody, and most recently, the prestigious 2019 Edward R. Murrow award. In 2019, together with his friend and colleague Mandy Clark, Ben launched ENP Media, where he is the Head of Content.

With a Ph.D. in study of enzymes in Indian honey, Dr Wakhle has four decades of experience in research and beekeeping training at the Indian government’s Central Bee Research and Training Institute in Pune. He is recognised by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and has worked as National Consultant for beekeeping and honey marketing. Dr Wakhle is Chief Scientist at the VSBT Centre of Excellence in Apicultural Biotechnology, Baramati, where he has helped more than 2000 farmers and students and conducted research on honeybees, beekeeping for pollination and other bee products and services.

Ethan Liu is Founder and Managing Director of Flanton & Co. a firm of chartered accountants, regulated by The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Upon graduation from Oxford University in 2004, Ethan began his career with the tax department of Deloitte LLP, London and founded Flanton and Co. in 2012. Ethan and Flanton & Co provide accountancy services pro bono to The World Bee Project CIC.

Martin Lewis is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has over three decades experience with his design consultancy based in London. Martin Lewis Design supports international clients, educational foundations, with pro bono work for charitable organisations. His work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Photographic Society. Martin supports The World Bee Project’s website design and production.