LONDON – At the September 2014 meetings of the International Coffee Organization, chairpersons and country representatives for the Council and other ICO bodies were chosen. Below is the composition for 2014/2015.
International Coffee Council 2014/2015
Chairperson: Mr Conradin Rasi (Switzerland)
Vice-Chairperson: H.E. Mr Iván Romero-Martínez (Honduras)
Private Sector Consultative Board (PSCB)
Chairperson: Mr Ricardo Villanueva (Asociación Nacional del Café – Anacafé) Vice-Chairperson: Mr Ric Rhinehart (Specialty Coffee Association of America)
Exporting Members (alternates in italics)
Colombian Milds: Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia, Sociedad Exportadora de Café de las Cooperativas de Caficultores (EXPOCAFE), African Fine Coffees Association (african Fine Coffees Association
Other Milds: Asociación Nacional del Café (Anacafé), Coffee Exporters Association of India
Brazilian and other Natural Arabicas: Associação Brasileira da Indústria de Café (ABIC), Associação Brasileira da Indústria de Café Solúvel – ABICS, Conselho dos Exportadores de Café do Brasil (CeCafé) Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil (CNA), Conselho Nacional do Café (CNC)
Robustas: Conseil du Café/Cacao (3C);Indonesian Coffee Exporters Association (GAEKI), Uganda Coffee Federation (UCF)
Consumer representatives
All Japan Coffee Association (AJCA), Coffee Association of Canada, European Coffee Federation (ECF), Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC), National Coffee Association of USA (NCA), Russian Association of Tea and Coffee Manufacturers (Rusteacoffee), Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE)
Consultative Forum on Coffee Sector Finance
Chairperson: Mr Juan Esteban Orduz (Colombia) Vice-Chairperson: Mr Brendan Lynch (USA)
Core Group for the Consultative Forum
Exporting Members: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire
Importing Members: European Union, Switzerland and the USA
Ex-officio Member: Executive Director
Assisted by: Chairperson of the PSCB and four advisors: Marc Sadler (Team Leader, Agricultural Finance and Risk Management Unit, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank); Noemi Perez (Executive Director, Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade); Silas Brasileiro (Executive Chairman, Conselho Nacional do Café, Brazil) and Nicolas Tamari (CEO, Sucafina SA).
Projects Committe
Chairperson: Mrs. Ina Grohmann (EU-Germany)
Vice-Chairperson: Mr Oke Nurwan (Indonesia)
Exporting Members: Brazil, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Indonesia, and Kenya Importing Members: European Union, Switzerland, and the USA
Promotion and Market Development Committee
Chairperson: : Mr Andrea Illy (EU-Italy) Vice-Chairperson: Mr Belisario Dominguez Méndez (Mexico)
Exporting Members: Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Tanzania
Importing Members: European Union, Switzerland, and the USA
Finance and Administration Committee
Chairperson: Mr Aly Touré (Côte d’Ivoire) Vice-Chairperson: Mr Brendan Lynch (USA)
Exporting Members: Brazil, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, India, Indonesia and Mexico
Importing Members: European Union, Switzerland, and the USA
Statistics Committee
Chairperson: Mr Brendan Lynch (USA) Vice-Chairperson: Mr José Cassule Mahinga (Angola)
Exporting Members: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gabon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Nicaragua
Importing Members: European Union, Switzerland, and the USA
Virtual Screening Subcommittee
Chairperson: Executive Director
Exporting Members: Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Indonesia
Importing Members: European Union and the USA
