Excel Centre, London, United Kingdom
Sabiha Rumani Malik
FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT
Sabiha Malik is an internationally recognised social entrepreneur and designer. Her design work aligns urban development with pollinator-friendly landscapes and associated architectures.
Sabiha founded The World Bee Project CIC in August 2014 to reimagine the relationship between people and pollinators in order to create innovative and sustainable solutions that address the inter-related global challenges of pollinator and biodiversity decline, food security and climate change. Her concepts have been the basis for The World Bee Project’s successes to date, always grounded in technology and science but drawing on the full richness of human imagination to create socially and environmentally conscious solutions.
In 2019, to celebrate the right to life, food, shelter and wellbeing, for women in adversity as well as for bees, Sabiha successfully piloted her concept in East Jerusalem for a model that could be implemented in areas where socio-economic inequalities constrain the capacity of the poorest and most vulnerable women living in hardship conditions.
Sabiha is founder of the UK charity Sanghata Global, and founder and designer of the award-winning Frontier Market Scouts (FMS) entrepreneurship education program which won the 2013 Ashoka U Innovation Award. Sabiha also founded ‘Diamonds for Humanity’. At its inception in 2007, she was an associate founder at Singularity University, NASA Ames, California. She was previously strategic adviser and senior director at the architecture firm Foster and Partners, and contributed innovative design concepts for winning entries in international competitions, including the re-design of the Reichstag building in Berlin and the extension of the Joslyn Museum, Omaha. She has designed jewellery collections for De Beers.
Amaryllis Knight
Honorary Founding Member
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
Edgar Mora Altamirano
Expert Adviser Urban Ecosystems
Global Goodwill Ambassador
The World Bee Project
Mayor of Curridabat , Costa Rica, between 2007- 2018, Edgar revolutionised the planning paradigms for the environmental, social and economic development in the city and created the innovative regenerative urban plan named ‘Sweet City’. The approach became an international by-word for innovative, sustainable urban regeneration and won numerous international awards. Edgar lectures at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Technological Institute of Zurich (ETH- Zurich) and the Universidad de Costa Rica.
Dr. Mike Garratt
University of Reading Ecological Intensification and Sustainable Crop Production
Dr. Mike Garratt’s research focusses on invertebrate ecology in the agri-environment and primarily the impacts of farming practice and land management on the ecosystem services of pest control and pollination underpinning crop production. Mike’s specific areas of interest include insect pollination ecology and crop production, ecological intensification of smallholder farming systems, effects of agricultural practices on pests and natural enemies, and trophic influences of soil fertility management in agricultural systems.
Ben Plesser
ENP Media
Ben Plesser 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 coverage from war zones and political hot spots with magazine projects ranging from ambitious investigations to explorations of science and culture. His passion for investigative journalism and focus on human rights, conservation and the environment have won him 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.
Ben advises The World Bee Project on public and media relations.
Dr. Dhananjay Wakhle
Apiculture, India
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.
Professor Simon G Potts
Honorary Founding Member, Advisor, Pollination, Ecosystems & Food Security
Professor Simon Potts is a world-leading expert on pollination and other ecosystem services in support of global food security at the University of Reading. He has led major studies and policy reviews into the impacts of pollinator declines. In 2016 he 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 S V S Raju
Banaras Hindu University Farming and Pollinator Conservation Practices, India
Professor Raju, a leading authority on pollinator entomology, 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.
George Clouston
Remote Monitoring Technology and Precision Apiculture
George has decades of experience of 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 has worked with technology systems that have been responsible for several breakthroughs in the remote monitoring of bees, including the detection of queen mating flights, swarming and also the presence of pests such as the Asian Hornet. He is also a beekeeper with over 10 years’ experience.
Bálint Szüle MSc.
HUNGARY
Bálint initiated and leads our project in Hungary, which the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Technology and Innovation are open to cooperation at the national level.
Bálint’s field of research is soil fertility and natural nutrient replenishment. He has a Master degree in Agribusiness Management from the University of West Hungary, and he is a PhD candidate at the Széchenyi István University. He is a member of the British Society of Soil Science, the Crop Science Society of America, the Soil Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy.
Yossi Aud
Biodynamic Apiculture Education
Yossi Aud is a biodynamic beekeeper, Steiner educator and founder of Bees for Peace. He collaborates in social areas in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority with Palestinian charitable organisations. The World Bee Project collaborated with Yossi for implementation of the ‘Bees in East Jerusalem’ programme. The programme was led by Yossi and supported by Matan Israeli of Muslala, architect Tareq Nasser, and local NGOs. The programme offered apiculture education and training to 15 vulnerable Palestinian women living in East Jerusalem and established apiaries for them on the rooftops of their homes thus enabling them to create promising new livelihoods for themselves through the sale of honey and ‘rooftop bee tourism’.
Scott Horton
DLA Piper Legal
DLA Piper offer legal services pro bono to The World Bee Project CIC.
Scott Horton is Senior Consultant at DLA Piper Law Firm.
Scott’s work concentrates on international public and private law, natural resource development and human rights matters. Scott’s career has focused heavily on advice and representation of entities in the natural resources sector, and most recently he has counselled sovereigns in the restructuring of natural resource licensing regimes to introduce higher levels of transparency and accountability and has supervised extensive anti-corruption investigations relating to existing natural resource investments. His 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.
Professor Dave Goulson
University of Sussex
Bumblebee Ecology and Conservation
Professor Goulson sees The World Bee Project as an opportunity to engage people all over the world in conservation and science and as a way to create a global data set that would benefit science. Professor Goulson studies the ecology, behaviour and conservation of bumblebees at the Goulson Lab, University of Sussex. His group use a broad range of approaches, from genetic studies to behavioural assays to large-scale field trials. In recent years they have become heavily involved in studies of the impacts of pesticides on bumblebees. His popular science book about bumblebees A Sting in the Tale, generated a wave of popular interest in bees and their conservation. A sequel, A Buzz in the Meadow, was released in 2014 and describes his attempts to create a wildlife sanctuary in a corner of France.
Dr. Sajiv Anand
All India Crop Biotechnology Association Farming and Pollinator Conservation Practices, India
Experienced in the agribusiness sector, Dr Sajiv Anand is one of India’s most respected advocates for sustainable farming. He developed two major sustainability codes in India in castor (SUCCESS) and tea (trustea) crop and served as a member of the expert committee to develop the plant protection code in tea for the Tea Board of India. He was a member of the expert committee to develop good agricultural practices and guidelines of Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, India. Dr. Anand is the founder of FoodPrint, a non-profit which develops responsible farming practices with a focus on pollinator conservation.
Ethan Liu
Finance
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
Martin Lewis Design
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.
We take a distilled approach. We build specific project teams and bring in experts best suited to the project and best aligned with our mission to champion pollinator friendly landscapes and therefore sustainable, healthy and affordable food systems. We aim to rapidly scale with the use of AI and other technologies.