Il segretario esecutivo della PRRI è il dottor. Lucia de Souza, a Brazilian national who obtained her Ph.D in plant biochemistry at the Friedriech Miescher Institut in Switzerland. Ha maturato esperienza nel campo delle biotecnologie lancio del prodotto e della ricerca la percezione del consumatore in Messico e in Brasile. Lúcia de Souza has extensive experience in teaching and has been actively involved in biosafety since 1994. Da 2005 a 2015 she was the vice-president of the Brazilian National Biosafety Association(ANBio), che è un gruppo di professionisti accademici attivi nella creazione di capacità e nella comunicazione in materia di biosicurezza e le sue interfacce con la società, autorità di regolamentazione e le altre parti interessate. Dato che 2015 she is affiliated with ISAAA. Lucia de Souza also directs the Switzerland based Cutting Edge Solutions, che offre consulenza in materia di biosicurezza e le biotecnologie. Lúcia de Souza è stato attivamente coinvolto in attività di PRRI dal 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, ecc.
Inoltre, 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, e da 1989 a 2000 he was in charge of biosafety regulation in the Netherlands during which he was actively involved in many international and EU fora. Da 1999 a 2002, ha gestito il progetto "Attuazione della nazionale sulla biosicurezza quadri dei paesi candidati all'adesione dell'Europa centrale e orientale", e da 2002 a 2004 he served as the programme manager of the UNEP-GEF projects on Implementation of National Biosafety Frameworks. Dato che 2004, Piet van der Meer works as an independent consultant, primarily providing support on biotechnology and biosafety to international organisations and governmental institutes. Inoltre, 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.