The Judges

Over the years, the Roux Scholarship judging panel has welcomed the expertise of some of the world’s best chefs and included such luminaries as Victor Ceserani and Peter Kromberg. More recently, Heston Blumenthal, Rick Stein and the late Andrew Fairlie and Gary Rhodes and Clare Smyth MBE have all been on the panel. Until 2016, it was led by the Scholarship’s founders Michel Roux OBE and Albert Roux OBE KFO, but since then has been led by chairmen Alain Roux and Michel Roux Jr, and Brian Turner who is now Honorary Patron.

Each year, at the national final, the panel is led by the Honorary President of Judges, a role for which we have had the privilege of welcoming some of the world’s top chefs.

Portraits by Jodi Hinds Photography