New Director

Following Dr Margaret Adey’s resignation, IBRA will have a new Director from September. The new is Director Vincent Cook, currently UK of Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food National Beekeeping Specialist.

Vince Cook has experience of beekeeping in the tropics, particularly Asia, and has worked for many years in New Zealand, where he was a Government Apicultural Advisory Officer with 35, 000 colonies in his district, and responsibilities ranging from controlling bee diseases to conducting field experiments on beekeeping and allied subjects.

In 1980 Vince Cook returned to Britain to take up his present position as the Government National Beekeeping Specialist, and is widely known as a most knowledgeable lecturer and demonstrator of beekeeping: he prepares UK Ministry literature and has supervised legislation regarding honeybee importation and bee disease diagnosis. Vince Cook’s most recent publication, Queen Rearing Simplified, has been widely acclaimed in beekeeping circles.

IBRA looks forward to welcoming the new Director and wishes him every success.