[ruby_title][dropcap type=”background”]1[/dropcap] Malaysia: Joshua Ivanovic, Junglebird[/ruby_title]
The only finalist to have to battle through a national heat before this final, Ivanovic is already well known in the regional as a real rum lover. He started his career in hospitality aged 16, before moving to London where he picked up his cocktail-making path. He’s not only shaken drinks at several of the English capital’s most famous bars, including Milk & Honey, Mahiki, The Player and LAB, he’s also got serious competition credentials: in 2008 he scooped the 42 Below Cocktail World Cup global title in New Zealand, and in 2010 won the Appleton Estate Global Bartenders Challenge in Jamaica. As well as a co-founding KL’s first rum-dedicated cocktail joint, Junglebird, Ivanovic also runs his own consultancy business, the KL Cocktail Company.
