Claudia Brünen-Nieweler is Molecular Biologist and Working Area Manager of the Molecular Biology Unit of the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute in Münster with by now some twenty years of experience. On-site she is responsible for official analyses of food concerning species differentiation, detection of genetically modified products and pathogen detection, including validation of biomolecular methods and quality control procedures. In addition she is member of national, CEN and ISO working groups on food molecular biology techniques and convenor of the BVL and DIN working groups on species differentiation.

Neil Buck is a Corporate Toxicologist for General Mills. He spends most of his time on innovation of products and production processes and in managing technical regulatory affairs. Neil has spent more than 15 years in industry. He participates in Committees in Food Drink Europe, the US Grocery Manufacturers Association, and both ILSI EU and North America.

Christophe Cavin is a Senior Specialist Food Integrity at the Institute for Food Safety & Analytical Science at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne. He is currently actively involved in main EU projects (e.g. EU-China Safe) and several Expert panels addressing food fraud prevention (e.g. US Pharmacopeia, CEN).

Giles Chapman is Head of Intelligence in the Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) in UK. He has been worked in the NFCU since shortly after its inception, joining after over a decade in criminal intelligence analysis within the UK policing environment. He has been responsible for delivering the Unit’s strategic intelligence assessments on the food crime threat, as well as managing the co-ordination of international operational activity targeting food crime.

Carsten Fauhl-Hassek is a Food Chemist and the Head of Unit "Product Identity, Supply Chains and Traceability" in the "Safety in the Food Chain" Department of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin.

Peter Fürst retired from the CVUA-MEL (Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe) board in March 2019 and now works part-time at the University of Münster as a Honorary Professor. He joined the EFSA CONTAM Panel from 2006 to 2015 where he was Vice-Chair from 2012 to 2015. Since last year he has been a member of the EFSA FAF Panel.

Mário Gadanho started in May as an R&D Senior Staff Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific Portugal and has over 20 years of experience in the DNA-based area. He co-founded Biopremier in 2013 and joined SGS in 2017 as a Global Business Development Manager. The development of new tools based on untargeted species screening by DNA analysis was one of his main research themes focusing on the specific topic of food authenticity and fraud.

Thomas Gude has been Deputy Head of SQTS, Switzerland, since 13 years. He is heading the laboratories dealing with food and non-food analysis as well as with risk assessments.

Karen Gussow is a Co-ordinating/Specialist Investigator at the NVWA-IOD, the Intelligence and Investigation Service of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority. She has worked at the NVWA for over 12 years in different roles, after 5 years in business consulting. Karen specializes in food fraud and combines her work with an external PhD candidate position at VU University Amsterdam about the detection of corporate crimes by regulatory enforcement agencies.

Bärbel Hintermeier is an Attorney at Law at the law firm meyer.rechtsanwälte in Munich, Germany. She advises domestic and international operating companies in the food sector, especially on the composition and marketability of innovative products as well as the labelling and advertisement of foods.

Mikko Hofsommer is the General Manager of GfL Gesellschaft für Lebensmittel-Forschung. He is publicly certified expert for soft drinks and fruit juices and active in several scientific and industry associations (e.g. BfR, AIJN, IFU).

Britta Müller is a Veterinarian and the Coordinator of the early warning system aimed at early identification of potential health risks and fraudulent practices in the food sector at the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL). She is involved in designing new control strategies.

Petter Olsen has a background in computer science and applied mathematics. He has been working as a Senior Scientist at Nofima since 1993, and has a Dr.philos in food traceability. His research covers a wide range of scientific areas including production management, sustainability, and traceability. He serves as an adviser to the FAO, EFSA, WWF, the EC, and several EU-funded projects.

Marino Petracco is a Professor and a Senior Research Scientist and Health & Safety Product Specialist at illycaffè in Trieste. He joined illycaffè in 1986, working on topics ranging from plant botany to industrial transformation processes, beverage brewing dynamics and its effects on the consumer’s body. He has published widely and is active in several scientific associations.

Andreas Plischke is working as a Scientific Officer at the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) in Berlin. He has previously worked in the area of genetic engineering and e-commerce and is presently the Deputy Head of the unit responsible for early warning and information systems and represents Germany related to RASFF, AAC and IMSOC in working groups of the European Commission.

Bert Pöpping is the Managing Director of the strategic food consulting company FOCOS. He has more than 20 years of experience in the food analytical industry and is the Co-Chair of the ILSI Food Authenticity taskforce, a member of the USP Food Ingredients Expert Committee, which also deals with food authenticity and AOAC Scientific Advisor on the subject of food fraud. Bert also currently serves as the President of the MoniQA Association.

Michael Rosenmark has 35 years of experience in combating crime of which 22 years have been in the police force and the intelligence service - most recently as Deputy Detective Superintendent. Since 2006 he has been responsible for establishing and managing the Flying Squad and cooperating with other authorities on combating food fraud in the DVFA.

Gianluca Sabatino has been working at Europol since 2016. He is a Specialist in IPR infringements and criminal analysis. At Europol, he coordinates, among other things, the operation OPSON. Before joining Europol, he was a former NAS Carabinieri inspector, working on food/health frauds and performing anti-doping inspections.

Pablo Steinberg is a Professor and has been the President of the Max Rubner-Institut, Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food (MRI) since 2017. He has been a Professor for Food Toxicology and Replacement/Complementary Methods to Animal Testing at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo) since 2017.

Franz Ulberth is the Head of the Fraud Detection & Prevention Unit at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Geel since 2016. He joined the European Commission in 2002 and in 2007 he was nominated Head of the Food Safety and Quality Unit. Before joining the Commission he was a professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.

Peter Whelan is an Environment Health Officer and the Director of Audit and Investigations at the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), where he is responsible for the investigation of food fraud.