Worldchefs and City & Guilds celebrate a decade of partnership on Global Certification

As our project reaches its final milestone, we look forward to future opportunities supporting employers in hospitality with their upskilling challenges.

13 January 2025

City & Guilds and Worldchefs formed a partnership 10 years ago to create Worldchefs Global Certification, the first and only global certification for the culinary industry in the world. 

The certification sets out progression routes for chefs and culinary educators, recognising skills and experience gained while working in the industry.

The partnership has gone from strength to strength over the last decade, trailblazing several innovations including the introduction of digital credentials which is fast becoming the norm to certificate skills.

The project has now reached its final milestone as Worldchefs has successfully integrated the certification across their education initiatives and will now manage all aspects of the programme.

In a statement about the certification, Ragnar Fridriksson, Managing Director from Worldchefs said: 

‘When we started our collaboration with City & Guilds, we had a simple and clear goal in mind: We wanted to enable chefs, no matter where they are around the world, to get recognition for their skills so that they can further their career. It was critical for us to build credibility and trust behind the certification which is why we choose to work with City & Guilds as our certification partner. We are delighted that we now have the full infrastructure in place to take the certification to the next level.’

Andy Moss, Chief Customer Officer at City & Guilds, added: 

‘The ambition behind the partnership has always been to support Worldchefs in building out their own quality assurance and certification capabilities so that they can help the industry address the critical shortage of chefs and ensure that there is a continuous pipeline of skilled talent coming into the sector. 

We remain fully committed to supporting employers in hospitality with their upskilling challenges through our skills consultancy offer and look forward to exploring new ways of collaborating with Worldchefs as both organisations continue to promote and champion the importance of investing in skills and training.’