Hans Kjaersgaard (UK & Denmark)
Hans is our Company Secretary and ensures that we operate in accordance with UK law and charity requirements.
Mark Oakley (UK)
Mark has very kindly been supporting IBRA on a voluntary basis by working closely with William Kirk since April 2022 to identify and help resolve key security issues with the IBRA website ensuring it reached the highest Qualys rating during this time. Mark has also identified, recommended actions and helped to solve issues relating to IBRAs profile and visibility on the Google search engine and knowledge panel with Wikipedia and IBRAs social media platforms. Mark has also advised on free virtual phone numbers for IBRA.
On top of this Mark has also advised and actioned, with William, the move of IBRA e-mails and document storage from Namesco and Dropbox to Google – Gmail and Drive. This has saved IBRA in the region of £1,000 per year and taken up a considerable amount of Mark’s time, which he has given of very generously.
Marks background is Information Security, and he currently holds the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Professional) accreditation https://www.isc2.org/Certifications/CISSP which is the world’s premier cybersecurity certification.
Mark has deployed Cloudflare for the BBKA and has also enrolled IBRA with the Cloudflare Project Galileo so we benefit from Cloudflare’s systems. He has registered IBRA with the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Centre which monitors IBRA’s website and email systems to provide high level alerts.
Mark has also registered IBRA with Uptime to monitor the availability of our website and alert us to any issues: https://status.ibra.org.uk/
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/case-studies/british-beekeepers-association/
Cloudflare have used BBKA as a case study for their 9th anniversary for Project Galileo – https://blog.cloudflare.com/nine-years-of-project-galileo-and-how-the-last-year-has-changed-it/
Mark is a director of Bee Diseases Insurance Limited advising on information security issues.
Mark is a member of the Ormskirk Beekeepers and has kept bees since 2006.
Stuart Roberts (UK)
Stuart manages IBRA book publishing and the IBRA bookshop.
Operational Management Team
Jacqueline Hart and Stuart Roberts form the operational management team and meet regularly to develop the business and ensure the safe operation of IBRA.
Council
The members of the IBRA Council are the trustees of the organisation. They are responsible for policy. Information about them is given here.
Bee World Editorial Board
Bee World is edited by Robert Brodschneider (Austria). The editorial board members are: Karina Antúnez (Uruguay), Maria Bouga (Greece), Stephen Devanesan (India), James D. Ellis (USA), Wanja Kinuthia (Kenya), Dr Cooper Schouten (Australia) and Maja Smodiš Škerl (Slovenia).
Journal of Apicultural Research Editorial Board
Journal of Apicultural Research is edited by Dr Maria Bouga (Greece) and Dr Melanie Parejo (Spain). The editoral board members are: Dr Adriana M Alippi (Argentina), Dr Vanessa Corby-Harris (USA), Dr Bjørn Dahle (Norway), Dr Anna Gajda (Poland). Prof. Irfan Kandemir Turkey), Dr Juliana Rangel (USA), Dr Victoria Soroker (Israel), Dr Jevrosima Stevanovic (Serbia) and Dr Robert Brodschneider (Austria).
Quince Honey Farm
Quince Honey Farm in Devon, UK, runs the bookshop for IBRA. They receive the orders, manage stock, invoice customers and supply books etc. to order.
AI Net Marketing Ltd
AI Net Marketing Ltd supports the IBRA website to ensure the service is stable and available 24 hours a day.