Bill Bragin (USA)
He is Director of Joe's Pub and an associate producer at the Public Theatre, NYC. He is a founding co-producer of GlobalFEST, a founding Board member of the North American World Music Coalition, and music consultant for the TED Conferences. Previous positions include Symphony Space, Central Park SummerStage, George Wein's Festival Productions, Allen Toussaint's NYNO label and consulting for Lincoln Center Festival. As Acidophilus, he djs worldwide with the GlobeSonic Sound System.
Rui da Cruz Mota (Portugal)
He degreed in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He worked as a freelance journalist and cultural worker. As a member of Amsterdam's Art Council he organised the festival series "Portugal: Roots and Time". After returning to Portugal he became the head of Inatel's Etno-Folk Dept., where he coordinated the world music festival "Festima", the "Portuguese BrassBand Meetings" and "Harbour's music Festival".  As a member of the "European Network of Traditional Music and Dance" he was the co-author of the CDR encyclopedia "Moments of European Traditional Music". Rui Mota writes for Portuguese and foreign magazines and has just been appointed coordinator of the Portuguese Association "Musica.PT".
Petr Doruzka (Czech Republic)
A music writer since 1968 and radio presenter since 1980's, Petr Doruzka runs his weekly show Borderline Music on the Czech National Radio and contributes to the leading Czech papers. He was one of the founding members and producers of the Bonton record company (now owned by Sony Music) and has written books on alternative, contemporary, and world music. Since 1992 he is a member of the WMCE panel. In recent years, he has also written for music magazines in Italy, Germany, France and UK, and contributed for the Global Village programme in Canada. For the past four years he lectures on world music at the Charles University in Prague. www.world.freemusic.cz/
Gaëlle Heurtebis (France)
Project Manager at the French Music Export Office in Paris since 2000, Gaëlle Heurtebis is in charge of the organisation's Communication. The French Music Export Office is a non-profit organisation which collectively helps French music professionals to develop the presence of their artists and productions abroad. Gaëlle is responsible for promotional tools produced by the FMEO. She is in charge of the FMEO's website, the professional web-based newsletter 'French vibes' and the monthly podcast 'French Vibes'.
Herminia Martinez (Spain)
Born in 1976, she studied sound engineering, now is developing her PhD. Her life is divided between acoustics and music. Herminia is the Production Director of the Etnosur Festival (Jaen/Andalusia). She writes about world music for the monthly magazine "buscamusica". She is also a jury member of the "Lagarto Rock", an important Spanish competition set in her city, Jaen. www.etnosur.com
Sigbjørn Nedland (Norway)
He degreed in philology (M.A.) at the University of Oslo. Then he worked as a music producer & presenter for radio, programmes/concerts and produced a numerous amount of CD recordings. Also he is author of books, drama and song lyrics.  As a project leader & artistic leader he managed international cross cultural projects, and also was involved in development projects in Africa. He is the project coordinator of the EU project EMUCAST and the EBU coordinator for world music.
Mario Pacheco (Spain)
He was born in Madrid in 1950 and started in the music business promoting concerts at the Madrid university by the end of the '60s. Then, as a photographer, he covered the British pop-rock scene and the flamenco world. He worked in Barcelona before creating in Madrid Nuevos Medios, his own record company which introduced in Spain contemporary jazz (ECM), British independent pop (Factory, Rough Trade) and World Music (World Circuit) besides producing crucial flamenco and Spanish pop recordings. He is the editor of "Zumba", the magazine of Hispanic popular music and literature. Since 2004 he is the chairman of UFI, the Spanish independents' association.

The WOMEX Jury was invented for the 5th WOMEX edition in 1999. Jury members so far: 1999 - 2006. Please check our archive for further information.
Adlington, Jenny (UK) - Arjouni Bourelly, Khadija (Morocco/Germany) - Benaïche, Marc (France) - Benigar, Bogdan (Slovenia) - Benoist, Yorrick (France) - Boyd, Joe (USA/UK) - Carfi, Pietro (Italy) - Cesarini, Giuliana (Italy/Spain) - De Kloet, Co (The Netherlands) - den Boer, Jaenneke (The Netherlands) - de Oliveira Pinto, Tiago (Brazil/Germany) - Diamé, Julia (Germany) - Dominguez, Manuel (Spain) - Duran, Lucy (UK) - Gay, Francis (France/Germany) - Gorjaczkowska, Hanna (Belgium) - Granieri, Rosanna (Canada/France) - Hvalkof, Peter (Denmark) - James, Alan (UK) - Jukkara, Jaana-Maria (Finland) - Lemke, Uli (Germany) - Lopez, José Miguel (Spain) - López, Lara (Spain) - Lucker, Katja (Germany) - Mahmoud, Yusuf (UK/Zanzibar) - Melguizo, Pedro (Spain) - Morales, Martin (Peru/UK) - Morgan, Andy (UK) - Mousset, Christian (France) - Nawaz, Aki (Pakistan/UK) - Odenthal, Johannes (Germany) - Pannke, Peter (Germany) - Pavlakis, Katerina (Greece/UK) - Puértolas, Francesc (Spain/Germany) - Ray, Rita (Ghana/UK) - Rigby, Ros (UK) - Sandahl, Sten (Sweden) - Seligman, Gerald (USA) - Theurer, Johannes (Germany) - Thiange, Dominique (Belgium) - Troitsky, Artemi (Russia) - Ulug, Ahmet (Turkey) - Urpi, Jordi (Spain) - Villafruela, Juan V. (Spain) - von Gaudecker, Marion (Germany) - Winter, Dennis (The Netherlands) - Winter, Michel (France/Belgium) - Wurr, Zazie (Germany/Spain)