Malcolm T. Sanford

Dr. Malcolm T. Sanford is Professor Emeritus, retired Cooperative Extension Specialist in Apiculture, University of Florida. He is the author of the Apis Information Resource News, the longest-running monthly newsletters of its kind, still being published, Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees, published in 2010, and Beekeeping Without Borders, published by Northern Bee Books, 2017. Educated at the University of Georgia in the art and science of keeping honey bees, Dr. Sanford worked first as extension beekeeping specialist at The Ohio State University, later ending his career after 20 years at the University of Florida. During his career, he published numerous articles for various publications, including summaries of the majority of the annual conventions of the American Beekeeping Federation, as well as resumés of World Apicultural Congress meetings held in Acapulco, Mexico (1981); Budapest, Hungary (1983), and Rio de Janeiro (1989), Canada (1999), South Africa (2001), Australia (2007), France (2009) and Eukraine (2013). He also published on numerous topics, including genetically modified organisms, Brazilian apiculture, events relating to honey bees at the International Union of Social Insects (Russia), and Africanized honey bees in the Americas. Dr. Sanford has been frequently invited to international conferences, including the Caribbean (1992), Mexico (1993, 1998, 2004, 2005), Uruguay (1996), Brazil (1996, 2000, 2004 ) and France (1997). He also organized and hosted the international symposium on beekeeping extension and regulation for the 1999 Apimondia meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada and was a beekeeping consultant in Paraguay (1980), Ecuador (1980, 2000), Antigua (1986), Egypt (1992), Chile (2002), Iraq-Kurdistan (2004). A former Peace Corps Volunteer (Ecuador; 1964-66), who speaks Spanish fluently, Dr. Sanford has training in Italian 1989 (six-month sabbatical in Bologna, Italy) and French 1997 (six-month sabbatical in Aix-en-Provence, France). He was a recipient of an academic Fulbright scholarship to Ecuador (2000) and is currently on the Fulbright Specialist Roster.