Speakers

Jesse Mulligan

Master of ceremonies

Jesse Mulligan is a writer and broadcaster best known as presenter of Afternoons on RNZ National and host of The Project on TV3. For the past ten years he has written a weekly restaurant review for NZ Herald Viva, and prior to that was restaurant critic for Metro magazine. He has a keen interest in food and drink, as well as professional experience in the sector working for several years at a busy Covent Garden PR agency. His clients there included Green & Blacks chocolate, FIJI Water, and Tio Pepe – the beginning of a lifetime love affair with fino sherry. He has a long running association with New Zealand’s wine industry, including having hosted the National Wine Awards on a number of occasions, and recently judging Hawkes Bay’s Wine Tourism Awards.

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