Presidium and Continental
Directors On the final day of the WACS Congress
the changes to presidium and the board of the
organisation have been enacted. The new president
of the organisation is Ferdinand E. Metz. He
currently holds the post of president emeritus
of the Culinary Institute of America and is
a certified master chef. Edward. G Leonard has
been sworn in as vice president. Edward is also
a certified master chef and has held the office
of president of the American Culinary Federation
since 2001. The secretary general is now L.
Edwin Brown, who is also an ambassador of the
American Culinary Federation. Treasurer is unchanged
as Norbert Schmidiger of Schweizer Kockverband
and Dr. h. c. Siegfried Schaber is now an ambassador
for WACS.
The new continental
directors have also been elected as follows:
Pacific
Rim
Glen Austen (Australia)
Middle East and Africa
Arnold Tanzer (South Africa)
Americas
Jorge E. Monti (Brazil)
Asia
Frank Naesheim (Singapore)
Europe
Reinhold Metz (Germany), Gissur Gudmundsson
(Iceland), Fausto LuigI Aroldi (Portugal)
