World Association of Chefs Societies.

About World Association of Chefs Societies

The World Association of Chefs' Societies (Worldchefs) is a global network of chefs associations first founded in October 1928 at the Sorbonne in Paris. At that first Worldchefs Congress there were 65 delegates from 17 countries, representing 36 national and international associations, and the venerable August Escoffier was named the first Honorary President of Worldchefs. Today, this global body has 98 official chefs associations as members. The biennial congress is a hallmark tradition of Worldchefs and has been organized in over 40 cities across the world throughout its 98-year history, Worldchefs is managed by an elected presidential body consisting of the Worldchefs president, vice president, treasurer, secretary general and ambassador honorary president, as well as a board of continental directors that look after the regions of Asia, Europe, Middle East & Africa, the Pacific-Rim and the Americas. A separate committee manages all culinary competition-related affairs.