PRRI Secretariat

Tus tuav ntaub ntawv Executive ntawm tus PRRI yog Dr. Lucia de Souza, a Brazilian national who obtained her Ph.D in plant biochemistry at the Friedriech Miescher Institut in Switzerland. Kev nyob rau hauv kev tshawb biotechnology khoom community launch thiab kev xaav kawm Mexico thiab Brazil gained nws. Lúcia de Souza has extensive experience in teaching and has been actively involved in biosafety since 1994. Ntawm 2005 mus 2015 she was the vice-president of the Brazilian National Biosafety Association(ANBio), uas yog ib pawg ntawm qhov kev kawm kws lub peev xwm tsev thiab kev sib txuas lus hauv lub teb Biosafety thiab cov interfaces nrog haiv neeg, regulators thiab lwm yam neeg muaj feem. Txij li thaum 2015 she is affiliated with ISAAA. Lucia de Souza also directs the Switzerland based Cutting Edge Solutions, uas muaj noj kev haus rau hauv biosafety thiab biotechnology. Lúcia tsib Souza lawm khwb khuav koom hauv cov dej num PRRI´s txij thaum 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, yam.

tsis tas li ntawd, 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, and from 1989 mus 2000 he was in charge of biosafety regulation in the Netherlands during which he was actively involved in many international and EU fora. Ntawm 1999 mus 2002, nws tswj peb tes num "yuav ua raws li lub teb chaws Biosafety coj ntawm lub teb chaws ua ntej accession Central thiab sab Europe", and from 2002 mus 2004 he served as the programme manager of the UNEP-GEF projects on Implementation of National Biosafety Frameworks. Txij li thaum 2004, Piet van der Meer works as an independent consultant, primarily providing support on biotechnology and biosafety to international organisations and governmental institutes. tsis tas li ntawd, 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.