Pääsihteeri PRRI on tohtori. Lucia de Souza, a Brazilian national who obtained her Ph.D in plant biochemistry at the Friedriech Miescher Institut in Switzerland. Hän kokemusta bioteknologian lanseeraus ja kuluttajien käsityksen tutkimuksen Meksikossa ja Brasiliassa. Lúcia de Souza has extensive experience in teaching and has been actively involved in biosafety since 1994. Alkaen 2005 to 2015 she was the vice-president of the Brazilian National Biosafety Association(ANBio), joka on joukko akateemisia ammattilaisia aktiivisesti valmiuksien ja viestinnän alalla bioturvallisuuspöytäkirjan ja sen liitännät yhteiskunnan kanssa, sääntelyviranomaisten ja muiden sidosryhmien. Koska 2015 she is affiliated with ISAAA. Lucia de Souza also directs the Switzerland based Cutting Edge Solutions, joka tarjoaa konsultointi bioturvallisuuden ja biotekniikan. Lúcia de Souza on ollut aktiivisesti mukana PRRI n toimintaan vuodesta 2005.
PRRI is an organisation by public researchers for researchers. Over the years PRRI members frequently volunteered to help on an ad-hoc basis the respective Executive Secretaries with secretarial support, such as updating literature on the website, acting as local organisers for meetings in their countries, selecting suitable accommodation during international meetings, jne..
Lisäksi, Piet van der Meer provides technical support to PRRI and the PRRI Secretariat . Piet van der Meer is trained as a biologist and a lawyer, ja 1989 to 2000 he was in charge of biosafety regulation in the Netherlands during which he was actively involved in many international and EU fora. Alkaen 1999 to 2002, Hän hallinnoi hanketta "toteuttaa kansallisten bioturvallisuuspöytäkirjan viitekehyksiä liittymistä Keski-ja Itä-Euroopassa", ja 2002 to 2004 he served as the programme manager of the UNEP-GEF projects on Implementation of National Biosafety Frameworks. Koska 2004, Piet van der Meer works as an independent consultant, primarily providing support on biotechnology and biosafety to international organisations and governmental institutes. Lisäksi, he teaches since 2006 biotechnology regulation at the University of Ghent (at the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Law), and since 2014 he also teaches this topic at the Free University of Brussels.