About IFEAT
IFEAT – The International Federation of Essential Oils and Aroma Trades – is a trade association founded in 1977. It represents the interests of companies involved in the production, processing, trading and manufacturing of the many thousands of ingredients used in flavours, fragrances and aromatherapy. Recent decades have witnessed rapid growth in these sectors and worldwide every country and almost every individual uses some of these ingredients. These sectors have vast turnovers, employ millions of people, and involve enterprises ranging from small family operations through to large multinationals, involved in essential oil production, aroma chemical manufacture, flavour and fragrance compounding, trading and consumer product manufacturing.
IFEAT’s current membership is over 710 companies from 67 countries. It is managed by an Executive Committee, providing their services pro bono, and elected by Members. More information on the IFEAT Committees and Committee members please refer to: https://ifeat.org/project/our-committees/
IFEAT’s principal aim is to advance and protect the Members’ interests in all parts of the world through various activities. These include international collaboration between Members and other national and international organisations, funding research and education programmes, the encouragement of good practices, the dissemination of information and the provision of forums for discussion.
A major activity is IFEAT’s annual international Conference, which has developed into the most important annual meeting of all stakeholders involved in the sectors, affording incomparable business and social contact opportunities. Other activities include:
- Study tours undertaken in a different country each year
- Support to flavour and fragrance courses provided at the University of Reading and sponsorship of students attending ISEO and WOCMAP meetings
- Support for research relevant activities, often involving collaborative projects with other organisations
- Regular publications: annual conference proceedings, a quarterly magazine (IFEATWORLD), socio-economic reports on specific naturals, and study tour books
- A conciliation service
IFEAT MEDAL LECTURE AWARD & FOUNDER’S AWARD RECIPIENTS
MEDAL LECTURE AWARD RECIPIENTS
Below is a list of those who have received the IFEAT Medal Lecture Award.
The aim of the Medal Lecture is to honour those individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the F&F industry over their career. It was suggested by Dr W. S. Brud and agreed unanimously at an Executive Committee meeting in Singapore in October 1983. This distinguished service medal is usually given to someone who is based in the country where the IFEAT Conference is taking place.
Year / Medal Recipient*
1984 Dr. Brian Lawrence (United Kingdom)
1985 Prof. Dr. Ilia Ognyanov
1986 Mr. Richard Taylor
1987 Prof. Dr. Angeli di Giacomo
1988 Prof. Ding Desheng
1989 Prof. S.C. Bhattacharyya
1990 Mr. O. Zeki Konur
1991 Prof. Dr Midian Sirait
1992 Prof. G. Buchbauer
1993 Prof. Karim B. Yaacob
1994 Dr. G. Clair
1995 Prof. Dr. K. Husnu Can Baser
1996 Mr. Alexander Kern
1997 Dra. Maria Concepción García Vallejo
1998 Mr. Ron Neal
1999 Prof. Zhu Liang-Feng
2000 Mr. Robert Webb
2001 Mr. Jose Luis Cutrale (Brazil)
2002 Dr. Wladyslaw S. Brud
2003 Mr. Geoff Davis * & Mr Tim Denny
2004 Mr. Ramon Bordas II (Spain), posthumous award
2005 Dr. A G Matthew
2006 Prof. Earle H. Graven
2007 Prof. Jeno Bernath
2008 Dr. Guy Collin
2009 Mr. Yongchen Hu
2010 Dr. Jamal-Eddine Chahboun
2011 Mr. Francisco Fernandez Alvarez-Castellanos
2012 Mr. Chih Lung Shih
2013 Mr. Stephen Manheimer
2014 Prof. Luigi Mondello
2015 Dr. R.O.B. Wijesekera
2016 Mr Abdulla Ajmal
2017 No Medal Lecture given
2018 Professor Dr. Lauro E.S. Barata
2019 Mr Petrus Arifin
2022 Mr Kim Bleimann
2023 Dr. Matthias Vey
2024 Mr Robby Gunawan
* Mr Davis gave the Medal Lecture
Event
IFEAT Cairo, Egypt
Int. Congress of Ess. Oils, Varna, Bulgaria
Int. Congress of Ess. Oils, Washington, USA
IFEAT Taormina, Sicily, Italy
IFEAT Beijing, China
Int. Congress of Ess. Oils New Delhi, India
IFEAT Antalya, Turkey
Int. Congress of Ess. Oils Jakarta, Indonesia
Int. Congress of Ess. Oils Vienna, Austria
IFEAT Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
IFEAT Avignon, France
Int. Congress of Ess. Oils Istanbul, Turkey
IFEAT Tel Aviv, Israel
IFEAT Seville, Spain
IFEAT London, UK
IFEAT Hong Kong
IFEAT Florida, USA
IFEAT Buenos Aires, Argentina
IFEAT Warsaw, Poland
IFEAT Sydney, Australia
IFEAT Lisbon, Portugal
IFEAT Cochin, India
IFEAT Cape Town, South Africa
IFEAT Budapest, Hungary
IFEAT Montreal, Canada
IFEAT Shanghai, China
IFEAT Marrakech, Morocco
IFEAT Barcelona, Spain
IFEAT Singapore
IFEAT San Francisco, USA
IFEAT Rome, Italy
IFEAT Colombo, Sri Lanka
IFEAT Dubai, UAE
IFEAT Athens, Greece
IFEAT Cartagena, Colombia
IFEAT Bali, Indonesia
IFEAT Vancouver, Canada
IFEAT Berlin, Germany
IFEAT Bangkok, Thailand
*Unless stated otherwise, the recipient was from the country in which the conference was held.
FOUNDER’S AWARD RECIPIENTS
The Founder’s Award – The Ronald Neal Award for Special Achievement and Service to the Flavour and Fragrance Industry – was introduced in 2006 at the Cape Town Conference Closing Banquet.
Year / Recipient
2006 Mr. Ronald Neal
2008 Dr. Brian Lawrence
2009 Mr. Thierry Duclos
2010 Dr. Clinton Green
2011 Mr. Stephen Manheimer
2013 Mr. Richard Pisano Sr.
2013 Dr. Wladyslaw S. Brud
2014 Dr. Peter Greenhalgh
2015 Mr João Ernesto Dierberger
2016 Mr Sant K Sanganeria
2017 Mr Michael G Boudjouk
2018 Mr Erol Mesulam
2019 Mr Ramesh Vaze
2023 Mr Klaus-Deiter Protzen
2024 Mr Petrus Arifin
History of the 40 years of IFEAT!
Read Peter Greenhalgh’s “History of IFEAT” series. The full version in a book was given as a gift at the Athens Fortieth Anniversary Conference 2017. Each of these articles has been included in past issues of IFEATWORLD.
IFEAT
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