Andy Adams has many years of experience working in European regulatory affairs for biocides and moved into a public and governmental affairs role at Bayer CropScience in 2014 where he is now the Global Issues Lead for Insecticides and Fungicides. With specific focus on endocrine disruptors, he currently represents Crop Life International and the ECPA as Chair of their ED Expert Groups.

Lisa Baumann is a Research Group Leader at the University of Heidelberg. She specializes in aquatic toxicology with a focus on endocrine effects, hepatotoxicity and immunotoxicity in fish. Special focuses of her work are developmental studies with fish, as well as histopathological analyses for which she is regularly recruited as specialist for contract work, workshops and expert panels.

Sofie Christiansen is a Senior Researcher PhD and Reproductive Toxicologist at National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, in the Research Group for Molecular and Reproductive Toxicology. Sofie has extensive experience in designing, management and evaluation of large in vivo extended developmental toxicity studies in rats, and has special expertise on endocrine sensitive endpoints. Her current research is focused on endocrine disruption, developing AOP and new test methods, as she is an active part in the two Horizon 2020 projects; ATHENA and FREIA.

Anne-Laure Demierre is a Scientific Collaborator in risk assessment of chemicals at the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. She has been working on the regulation of endocrine disruptors since 2011, and participates in several expert groups on this topic in the EU and OECD.

Daniela Fruth is a Regulatory Toxicologist at knoell Germany. She studied food chemistry at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and is holding a PhD in Pharmacy from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. After her PhD period, spent in the chemical industry focussing on genotoxicity and in vitro metabolism, she joined knoell in 2016 and has since then worked in the biocide sector with a focus on human safety, exposure and risk assessment as well as regulatory affairs. She is part of the knoell ED expert team and is involved in the assessment of active substances (biocides and crop protection) and co-formulants with respect to endocrine disrupting properties.

Mary Gilbert holds a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario in London. She joined the Office of Research and Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1986 where she is now a Senior Investigator in the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment. Her research has examined alterations in brain structure and function, and neurobehavior following exposure to pesticides, metals, and thyroid hormone-disrupting chemicals.

Anne Gourmelon has worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for almost two decades. She started as a Project manager for chemical safety and is now is Principal Administrator of the OECD’s Test Guidelines Programme. The Programme aims at the development and harmonisation of test methods for chemical safety to meet regulatory needs in OECD member countries, and to enable the Mutual Acceptance of Data across countries.

Agnes Karmaus is a Senior Toxicologist at Integrated Laboratory Systems, LLC, in North Carolina, USA, where she is involved in conducting in vitro and computational toxicology studies. Her expertise is specifically focused on how to apply and evaluate the use of in vitro and in silico approaches in the application of new alternative methods in toxicological assessments.

Martin Klatt holds a PhD in chemistry and is currently the Head of Product Stewardship Dispersions and Resins at BASF. He has been active in the fields of product stewardship and research since 1995 in various positions at BASF. Besides leading the product stewardship group of dispersions and resins Europe at BASF he represents BASF in various associations. He is currently the chairman of the EPDLA (European Polymer Dispersion and Latex Association).

Gregory Lemkine is the Founder and Chief Executive officer of Laboratoire WatchFrog. He has a thorough understanding of the technical, scientific side and the marketing of biotechnologies and completed a training/action cycle of HEC school of management. He also holds a PhD in Physiology with a specific interest on the role of hormones to determine neural stem cells.

Emily McVey is an experienced Regulatory Toxicologist and works as a Risk Assessor in ecotoxicology at the Ctgb. Her specialties include environmental toxicology, wild vertebrates (birds, mammals, amphibians, fish), molecular mechanisms of toxicity, neurodevelopmental toxicity and endocrine disruption testing and assessment.

Aldert Piersma is a Professor of reproductive toxicology at Utrecht University and a Senior Scientist at the RIVM in Bilthoven. His activities include research into mechanistic toxicology, animal-free test systems and advisory work in national and international scientific committees. He has been involved with the endocrine disruption issue for over 20 years.

Apolline Roger (PhD) joined ClientEarth as the Lead of the Chemical Program in 2017, after 10 years of research and teaching on EU Risk Regulation. ClientEarth is an environmental NGO that uses the power of the law to protect people and planet, and a member of the EDC-free coaition. ClientEarth is an accredited stakeholder at ECHA and works closely with EFSA. The lawyers of ClientEarth’s chemical team have been and will be very active in the adoption and implementation of the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, with their partners from the EDC-free coalition.

Marize Solano is a Toxicology Pathologist, with experience in Human Health Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products and Biocides at different regulatory and European Agencies. Currently, she works as an Endocrine Disruptors Expert and Researcher at the Germany Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin at the Unit Testing and Assessment Strategies Pesticides.

Lennart Weltje holds a PhD in ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry and currently works as a Senior Ecotoxicologist at BASF conducting risk assessments for PPPs and biocides. He is also an honorary Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Georg-August University in Goettingen. His former stations include the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).

Jordane Wodli currently serves as a policy advisor national expert on chemicals in the European Commission’s DG Environment.