Academy
Organised by Restaurant magazine
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy is the mechanism used to create The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. The Academy is comprised of 837 members, each selected for their expert opinion of the international restaurant scene.
To create the Academy, and give it a fair representation of the global restaurant scene, we divide the world up into 27 geographical regions.
Each region has a chairperson appointed for their knowledge of their part of the restaurant world. These chairs each selected a voting panel of 30 – ensuring a balanced selection of chefs, restaurateurs, food/restaurant journalists and gourmands.
To read more about how we create the list, please visit How we do it.
The Academy Chairs
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Voting panellists 2011
| Aase E Jacobsen | Abigail Donnelly | Adam Price | Adam Sachs | Adam Simkins | Adeline Grattard |
| Adele Wong | Adlyn Adam Teoh |
| Adrian Brijbassi | Agnieszka Amaro |
| Ahmet ORS | Aiste Miseviciute |
| Aivar Hanson | Alan Yau |
| Albert AROUH | Albert Wong |
| Alberto Ituarte | Alejandro Ruiz |
| Aleksander Filin | Alessandra Meldolesi |
| Alessandro Porcelli | Alex Atala |
| Alex Morabito | Alexander Keckeis |
| Alexandr Orlov | Alexandra Forbes |
| Alexandre Gauthier | Alfredo Ayala |
| Ali Kurshat Altinsoy | Alikhanova Janna |
| Allison Rutowitz | Alvaro Renedo |
| Alvin Leung | Amanda Puck |
| Amy Rosen | Anastassiya Naumetskaya |
| Anders Hoglund | Andoni Luis Aduriz |
| Andras Wiszkidenszky | Andre Chiang |
| Andre Morgenthal | Andrea Berton |
| Andrea Galli | Andrea Grignaffini |
| Andrea Petrini | Andreas Caminada |
| Andreas Viestad | Andrew Hempstead |
| Andrew Knowlton | Andrew McConnell |
| Andrew Zimmern | Andrey Zakharin |
| Andy Fenner | Angela Hartnett |
| Angelo Di Stefano | Angie Wong |
| Anil Chopra | Anisha Mohinani |
| Anna Claudia Grossi | Anna Shumaylova |
| Anna Turina | Anne Marie Ozaeta |
| Anthony Costa | Antoinette Bruno |
| Aris VEZENES | Arkadiy Novikov |
| Arnaldo Lorensato | Arnaud Lallement |
| Arnold Tanzer | Arturo Fernandez |
| Atul Kochhar | Aun Koh |
| Aurora Lopez-Hortigosa | Azari Cuenca |
| Bart Desmidt | Bart Lodewyckx |
| Batir Sekerov | Belarmino Iglesias Filho |
| Ben Shewry | Beppe de Vito |
| Bernardo Roca Rey | Bert Meeuwis |
| Bill Marinelli | Bjorn Frantzen |
| Bob Noto | Bobby Chinn |
| Bong HA | Bonnie Stern |
| Boris de Vroonen | Boris Yu |
| Bostjan Povse | Bradley Gordon |
| Brent Savage | Brett Anderson |
| Bruce Palling | Bruno Ceretto |
| Bruno Gabersek | Bruno Verjus |
| Cameron Stuart | Carla Capalbo |
| Carla Pernambuco | Carlo Cracco |
| Carrie Nahabedian | Catharine Vandoorne |
| Cesar Fredes | Cesar Santos |
| Cezary Mielczarek | Chandra Ram |
| Charles CHAN | Charlo Whately |
| Chef Coelho | Chetan Seth |
| Chris Bauer | Chris Chown |
| Chris Haworth | Chris Johns |
| Chris Salans | Christian F. Albrecht |
| Christian Puglisi | Christian Rhomberg |
| Christian Schmed | Christina PERATIKOU |
| Christophe Nachtegaele | Christopher Sjuve |
| Clark Wolf | Claude Bosi |
| Claude Troisgros | Claudia Arias |
| Cristina Jolonch | Cynthia Rosenfeld |
| Damir Fabijanic | Dan Hong | Dan Hunter |
| Dan Ivarie | Dani Garcia | Daniall Lassaut |
| Danie Jacobs | Daniel Boulud |
| Daniel Greve | Daniel Montoya |
| Daniel Ovadia | Danny Meyer |
| Danusia Barbara | Danyel Couet |
| Darren Hauser | Dave Chang |
| Dave Reeder | David Burton |
| David Cope | David Everitt-Matthias |
| David Jacobson | David Laris |
| David Martin | David Muñoz |
| David Nicholl | David Yeo |
| Davide Scabin | Dean Tai |
| Dean Winter | Debra Meiburg MW |
| Derek Proctor | Dharshan Munidasa |
| Dick Middelweerd | Dimitri Demjanov |
| Dimitrios ANTONOPOULOS | Dimitrios Himonas |
| Dirk de Prins | Dmitry Sokolov |
| Dominic Ferszt | Donald Berger |
| Duilio Belic | Edinho Engel |
| Edoardo SGUBIN | Eduardo Girão |
| Eduardo Maya | Eduardo Moreno |
| Eleonora Cozzella | Elsbeth Hobmeier |
| Emanuele Scarello | Emilio Garip |
| Emmanuel Renaut | Enrique Martinez |
| Enrique Nalda | Enrique Olvera |
| Eric Hallin | Eric Ripert |
| Eric Teo | Ernesto Lanusse |
| Erwin Schnitzler | Etienne Haro |
| Eugene Kim | Eunok Lee |
| Evelyn Chen | Evi Robert |
| Fabrice Giraud | Federico Rigoletti |
| Felix Hirsch | Fergus Fung |
| Fernando Aracama | Fernando del Moral |
| Fernando Trocca | Fiammetta Fadda |
| Filip Langhoff | Fiona Morrison |
| Fiona Smith | Florian Moosbrugger |
| Florian Trento | Francis Gouten |
| Francis Lam | Francis Mallmann |
| Frank Bruni | Fred Peneau |
| Fritz Schur | Gabriel Bialystocki |
| Gabriel Gadsden | Gabriele Zanatta |
| Gabriella Gershenson | Gael Greene |
| Gail Simmons | Gary Wiviott |
| Gaston Acurio | GAURAV GHAI |
| Gautam Anand | Gelibterman Leonid |
| Gennaro Esposito | Geoffrey Eu |
| Gerard Bellver | Gina Ho |
| Giorgio Grigliatti | Giorgio Locatelli |
| Giovanni Passerini | Giovanni Santini |
| Goran Jonsson | Graham Blackshaw |
| Grant Achatz | Grant Thatcher |
| Greg Malouf | Guillermo Gonzalez |
| Gwynne Conlyn | Hanness Konzett |
| Hans Valimaki | Harsh Goenka |
| Heidi Vihma | Heiko Nieder |
| Heinz Reitbauer | Helen Ong |
| Hemant Oberoi | Henry Barenblatt |
| Herve Frerard | Hian Goh |
| Hiromi Yamada | Hiroshi Yamaguchi |
| Hyun Seok Choi | Ian Keown |
| Ignatius Chan | Igor Buharov |
| Igor Gubernsky | Ilario Mosconi |
| Inaki Aizpitarte | Inga Bytaute |
| Isabel Coelho | Isabel Mazzucchelli |
| Isami Omori | Ivlev Konstantin |
| Ivo Faria | Ivona Grgan |
| Ivy Woo | Jacques Boissier |
| Jacques Trefois | James Brennan |
| James Chatto | James Fitzgerald |
| James Mullen | Jan Ganser |
| Jane Adams | Jason Atherton |
| Javier Oyarbide | Jay Rayner |
| Jay Rayner | Jean Sulpice |
| Jean-Baptiste Thomaes | Jean-Francois Piege |
| Jean-Luc Pigneur | Jeannie Cho Lee |
| Jean-Pierre Rossouw | Jen Lin Liu |
| Jennifer Eden | Jereme Leung |
| Joan Roca | Joanna Savill |
| Joe Barza | Joe Warwick |
| John Gilchrist | John Lethlean |
| John Maytham | Jonathan Steyn |
| Jordan Simon | Jos Baker |
| Jose Aristia | Jose Bento dos Santos |
| Jose Carlos Capel | Jose Del Castillo Vargas |
| Jose Gamboa | Jose Garces |
| Jose Monje | Joseph CHONG |
| Josh Emett | Jouni Toivanen |
| Joyce Tully | Juan Carlos Novoa Ibarrola |
| Juan Mari Arzak | Juan-Antonio Sanchez |
| Julia Perez | Julian Teoh |
| Julie Song | Jun Yokokawa |
| Justin Dunne | Kalev Tanner |
| Kamal Mouzawak | Karen Wix |
| Kari Aihinen | Karl Lambour |
| Karrie Leung | Kasey Wilson |
| Kaspars Jansons | Kate Krader |
| Kei Segawa | Ken Forrester |
| Kenneth Nars | Kevin Chan |
| Kevin Chan | Kevin Hickey |
| Kevin Pang | Kim McLoughlin |
| King Kang Ng | Kinga Kozlowska |
| Kirill Gusev | Kirill Martynenko |
| Kirill Zebrin | Klaus Frick |
| Klaus Kalleweit | Klaus Van Isacker |
| Knut Stene-Johansen | Konstantinos LAZARAKIS |
| Korakot Punlopruksa | Kristian Perkola |
| Kwinten Depaepe | Kyoko Sekine |
| Lapin Vadim | Larissa Dubecki |
| Lars Peder Hedberg | Laurent Vanparys |
| Leisa Tyler | Leonid Garbar |
| Letitia Prinsloo | Lew Rood |
| LI Xiao Lin | Lia Avetissian |
| Liam Tomlin | Liana Sabo |
| Lillian Chou | Linda d’Holt-Hackner |
| Lionel Fischer | Louise Oakley |
| Lourdes Plana | Luc Citrinot |
| Luc Dubanchet | Luciana Bianchi |
| Luciana Froes | Luciana Lancellotti |
| Luigi Cremona | Luigi Taglienti |
| Luiz Amarico Camargo | Luke Dale-Roberts |
| Lynn Fung | Mac Van Dinther |
| Maki Shibata | Mamulyan Serdak |
| Manuel Benet | Manuel Gonsalves da Silva |
| Manuel Iglesias | Manuel Robledo |
| Mara Alcamim | Marc Declerck |
| Marc Veyrat | Marcel van Lier |
| Marck/Jorge Rausch | Marco Bolasco |
| Marcus Lindner | Marcus Wareing |
| Marek Zoledziowski | Margaux Salcedo |
| Margo Reuten | Mari Hirata |
| Maria de Fatima Moura | Maria Helena Guimares |
| Maria Rosa Arrarte | Maria Teresa Faria |
| Marián Caviglia | MARIAM RAM |
| Mariano Franco | Marie Aline |
| Marie Conde | Marie-Claude Lortie |
| Marie-France Henry | Mario Batali |
| Mark Best | Mark Kretschmer |
| Markus Kegele | Markus Theslef |
| Martin Aw Yong | Martin Breuer |
| Martin Klein | Martin Real |
| Martins Ritins | Masami Uwabo |
| Mason Florence | Massimiliano Alajmo |
| Massimo Bergami | Massimo Bottura |
| Matias Palomo | Matjaz Povse |
| Mats Hanzon | Matt Preston |
| Matthew Bax | Matthias Merges |
| Mattias Kroon | Matty Van den Brande |
| Maureen Mills | Mauro Colagreco |
| Mauro Uliassi | Max Veenhuyzen |
| Mazen Hajjar | Mehmet GURS |
| Melina Yong | Mica Kitamura |
| Michael Lomonaco | Michael Nagrant |
| Michel Portos | Michele Marcucci |
| Michelle Bernstein | Michelle Rowe |
| Michiko Watanabe | Miguel Javier de Arregui |
| Miho Sauser | Mikael Jonsson |
| Mike Klein | Mike Murzanski |
| Mikel Alonso | Mikko Takala |
| Milan Parikh | Min Lee |
| Mitchell Davis | Mitsuhiko Terashita |
| Mons Kallentoft | Moreno Cedroni |
| Mrs Frederick e. Grasser Herme | Muneaki Maeda |
| Myffy Rigby | Nam Nguyen |
| Narda Lepes | Narelle McMurtrie |
| Natalia Savinskaya | Nathan Fong |
| Nathan Garnett | Neil Perry |
| Nick Ray | Nicolas Chatenier |
| Nicole Albrieux | Nigel Haworth |
| Nihal Kaviratne | Nikos DANIELIDES |
| Norbert Niederkofler | Nuno Diniz |
| Oliver Friedrich | Onno Kokmeijer |
| Orkhan Muxtarov | Osvaldo Gross |
| Pablo Arena | Pablo Banos |
| Paco Roncero | Paola Carosella |
| Paolo Marchi | Paolo Pong |
| Pascal Barbot | Pat Nourse |
| Patricio Tapia | Patrick Elouarghi |
| Patrick Mayens | Patrick Spiessens |
| Patrik Lindstrom | Pau Arenos |
| Paul Bocuse | Paul Cadman |
| Paul Lupton | Pedro Miguel Schaffino |
| Peeter Pihel | Pekka Salmela |
| Pekka Terava | Per Bergkvist |
| Per Styregard | Per-Anders Jorgensen |
| Peter Drescher | Peter Gilmore |
| Peter Knipp | Peter Knogl |
| Peter Schachermayer | Peter Zhou |
| Petter Nilsson | Phil Vettel |
| Philip Eisenbeiss | Philip YU |
| Pierre Antaki | Pierre Herme |
| Piet Lecot | Pieter Ferreira |
| Pilar Hurtado | Priya Paul |
| Rachel Allen | Rafael Anson |
| Rafael Garcia Santos | Rafael Osterling |
| Rahul Akerkar | Raimundas Jucevicius |
| Rajat Parr | Rajiv Kaul |
| Rajiv Wazir | Ralf Rauchberger |
| Raman Macker | Ramon Freixa |
| Raphael Le Masne Chermont | Raquel Rosemberg |
| Rashmi Uday Singh | Rasmus Kofoed |
| Raymond Lim | Rebecca Mascarenhas |
| Rene Redzepi | Ricardo Castilho |
| Ricardo Muñoz-Zurita | Richard Ekkebus |
| Richard Vines | Rick Cooper |
| Rikki Mudie | Riko Saito |
| Robbie Swinnerton | Roberta Muir |
| Roberta Sudbrack | Roberto Franceschini |
| Robyn Eckhardt | Rodolfo Garcia |
| Rodolfo Guzman | Roger McShane |
| Rohit Khattar | Ronald Liem |
| Rosa Esteva | Rosa Moraes |
| Rosa Rivas | Rosanna Di Turi |
| Roser Torras | Ross Edward Marks |
| Rui Reis | Rungsima Kasikranund |
| Rupert Simoner | Søren Frank |
| Sacha Hormaechea | Saku Tuominen |
| Salome Alvarez-Freixas | Salvatore Madonna |
| Sam Woulidge | Samanta Pong |
| Sangho Seo | Sanjay Menon |
| Sanjeev Kapoor | Santiago Migoya |
| Sarah Nicholson | Sat Bains |
| Satoko Yahata | Satoshi Kimijima |
| Scott Price | Sean Brock |
| Sean Robson | Seiji Yamamoto |
| Setsuko Yuuki | Severin Corti |
| Shannon Bennett | Sharlee Gibb |
| Shin Mohri | Shobhaa De |
| Shurshakov Dmitryi | Sidorov Alexander |
| Simon Majumdar | Simon Parkes |
| Simon Wright | Sinclair Phillip |
| Sittichoke Thanavatik | Skvortsova Natalia |
| Sophia Rolle | Sophie Avernin |
| Sophie Brissaud | Sophie Mrejen |
| Stefano Bonilli | Steingrimur Sigurgeirsson |
| Stephan Macchi | Stephen Harris |
| Steve Dolinsky | Steve Stevaert |
| Suhel Seth | Su-Lyn Tan |
| Sumito Estevez | Sune Rosforth |
| Sunny Chuang | Susan FIELD |
| Susan Jung | Sven Ornelis |
| Sybil Kapoor | Sylvester Ng |
| Sylvie de Laveaucoupet | Tahir Amiraslanov |
| Takanori Nakamura | Takeshi Kadokami |
| Tamara Ivanova | Tanyamon Navakunvichitr |
| Tarun Sawhney | Teoman HUNAL |
| Terry Durack | Tetsuya Wakuda |
| Thalia TCHIHLAKIS | Thomas Dorfer |
| Thomas Frei | Thomas Koessler |
| Thomas Vitayakul | Thomas Wiesenegger |
| Tom Kelly | Tomas Olivera |
| Tomaz Srsen | Tomi Björck |
| Tommi Anttonen | Tonis Siigur |
| Tony Mantuano | Tony Tan |
| Tony Vallone | Tor Hermansen |
| Trish Deseine | Umberto Bombana |
| Urbain Vandeurzen | Uwe Micheel |
| Uwe Opecensky | Valter Kramar |
| Vassilis MASSELOS | Veiko Treumann |
| Velimir Cindric | Vindi Banga |
| Vine Bester | Vladislav Djatsuk |
| Vladislav Volkov | William Bennett |
| William Drew | William Guidara |
| William Ledeuil | William Mackay |
| Winnie So | Wolfgang Schedelberger |
| Xavier Agullo | Xavier De Moor |
| Yannis EFSTATHIADIS | Yoshihiro Narisawa |
| Youichi Katsumi | Yukiko Omori |
| Yukiko Pajiot | Yukio Hattori |
| Yumi Nishimura | Yumiko Inukai |
| Yuu Murakami | Zvonko Sokcic |
