Carmen is the president of the D.O. Rueda as well as the managing director of Bodegas Hijos de Alberto Gutierrez.

During the Covid pandemic, she has led a great marketing campaign for Rueda wines, engaging young and female consumers and positioning the Rueda wines as a reference in the white wine sector.

As global malts ambassador for Bacardi, Georgie Bell has built up an enviable reputation in the whisky industry. Bell began a diploma in distillation at the Institute of Brewing and Distilling, achieving the highest mark globally. focused on biochemistry and chemical engineering, Bell joined Diageo in 2014 to front a renewed push for its Mortlach single malt Scotch brand.Since 2016, Bell has represented Bacardi's Scotch brands, including Dewar's, Aberfeldy, Aultmore, Craigellachie, Royal Brackla, and The Deveron. Bell is also a co-founder of the Our Whisky campaign, which aims to highlight the diversity of whisky drinkers and challenge the perception that whisky is a ‘man's drink’.

Earlecia Richelle Gibb joined Bacardi-owned St-Germain elderflower liqueur as its US brand ambassador in 2019. In her position, she travels the globe creating programs that educate, engage and inspire the cocktail industry and consumers.

Gibb has worked on numerous beverage programs and taken part in many cocktail competitions across the east coast of the US. She has also spoken on industry panels regarding topics such as diversity and inclusion initiatives in the drinks sector. She was also a finalist in Tales of the Cocktails’ 2019 Spirited Awards.

China's first “Sherry Wines official certification senior Educator”. Owner of Shanghai Talentum, a professional importer of Sherry wine, and co-founder of its brand moni sherry World. She has visited dozens of Sherry producers / domains since many years. A Spanish food, wine and language expert, Monica is the first Chinese lecturer to hold professional sherry tasting events in Jerez, Spain. She was named Honorary Sherry Explorer by Discover Sherry in 2019.

Carolyn and her husband set about developing a farm in South Africa from scratch into a trendsetting estate within a few years. Carolyn is a wine and food pairing expert of note. Creation is the 2021 Global Winner of the GWC Award for Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences and was among the top 50 wineries at the 2019 World's Best Vineyards (WBV) Awards.

Creation is a member of the Biodiversity & Wine Initiative (BWI) and committed to conserving our natural heritage by implementing long-term biodiversity as well as sustainability programs. The farm also complies with the sustainability guidelines laid down by the Integrated Production of Wine (IPW) scheme and all recent releases boast the proud ‘green seal’. Working hand in hand with Nature, Creation is one of only nine wineries in South Africa to have received the coveted EnviroWines accreditation.

The vintner Dr. Eva Vollmer is very much committed to creating something new. Here, the enjoyment of wine is promoted as an active experience, for which she has won the Best of Wine Tourism Award in 2020 (Innovative wine tourism experiences). Be it yoga with wine, wine tastings in the dark, wine picnics or winegrowing itself – Eva Vollmer is very much focused on new movements and her fresh approach helps to break through traditional ways of thinking. Actual project is a network for sustainable winegrowing, winemaking and marketing for all sorts of biodynamic products of the region.

From a design background, Cecile Hitier joined Pernod Ricard in 2013 as retail designer for Champagne and Cognac brands. She joined PR Asia as Design Associate Director to identify creative partners and manage the project design development from brief to execution across architecture, landscaping, interior design and packaging. Pernod Ricard's Emei Distillery is the first distillery from any international wine and spirits company in China. Conceived in 2017, with construction completed in 2021, the project is the work of many years of an iconic whisky brand to put China on the world stage of the dynamic whisky category. From the choice of land to the architectural concept, to the naming of the brand, the project takes an ambitious and culturally sensitive approach in not just creating a great whisky but a brand that celebrates the Emei terroir and the Chinese culture around duality. The distillery adopts a comprehensive approach to sustainability with a vernacular design that prioritizes the preservation of local resources and environment while the distillery will achieve net-zero carbon emission on the day, which is a rare greenfield project in the industry.

Heading to Mexico with her co-founders, she set out to create the “most sustainable, transparent and honest” tequila. She explored the highlands of Jalisco, searched for agave free of chemicals and pesticides, and went door-knocking in Guadalajara to find vendors who could provide materials in order to avoid the carbon footprint of having supplies shipped in.

The brand sets out from the beginning to leave the least carbon footprint, developing a [mushroom-based] packaging that's biodegradable. It is also giving back part of the profits to the Mijenta Foundation to support their families with health plans and education. Via partnering with Whales of Guerrero because whales capture so much carbon emission, it's like planting thousands of trees.

In 1995 Laura joined her father Nicolás Catena Zapata at the family winery and founded the Catena Institute of Wine with the vision of making Argentine wines that could stand with the best of the world. She is currently managing director of Bodega Catena Zapata and works closely with Alejandro Vigil and Luis Reginato to make the vineyard selections and blends for the family's wines. Laura is also founder of her own Luca Winery in Mendoza, Argentina, as well as a practicing part-time physician of Emergency Medicine in San Francisco.

Dr. Laura Catena has been called “the face of Argentine wine” for her active role in studying and promoting the Mendoza wine region and Argentine Malbec. Laura's life obsession is to learn more about high altitude viticulture, the vineyard soil microbiome and wine age ability.

pesce has signed the United Nations Principles for the Empowerment of Women (WEP) on behalf of Wines of Argentina. Wines of Argentina, as the first ‘Wines of’ organization subscribing to these Principles, is taking decisive measures to advance towards gender equality in the workplace, the industry and the community, concentrating our efforts to develop strategies to speed up the process. As Wines of Argentina they seek to be agents of change towards a committed, sustainable and inclusive culture in the world of wine. Adherence to WEPs is just the beginning.