Board

The EurSafe Board is elected by the General Assembly (held at each Conference). The composition of the EurSafe Board aims to maintain a balance between disciplines, languages, nationalities, and gender.

President
Kate Millar
Centre for Applied Bioethics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Vice president
Franck L.B. Meijboom
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Secretary
Bernice Bovenkerk
Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Treasurer
Dirk de Hen
The Netherlands

Members

Stef Aerts
University College vzw Odisee/Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Diana Dumitras
University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Leire Escajedo 
University of the Basque Country, Spain

Herwig Grimm
Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Austria

Thomas Potthast
International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany

Helena Röcklinsberg
Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Sweden

Ariane Willemsen
Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH), Switzerland

Former Presidents

Prof. Cees Veerman, NL (1999-2000)
Former Minister of State of Agriculture, Nature, and, Food Quality and former Chair of the Executive Board of the Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands

Prof. Peter Sandøe, DK (2000-2007)
Director of the Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen , Denmark

Matthias Kaiser, N (2007-2016)
Director of Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway

Honorary Members / Life Membership

Prof. Ben Mepham
Centre for Applied Bioethics, University of Nottingham, UK

Given his extraordinary services to the Society, the General Assembly of the European Society of Agricultural and Food Ethics agreed (in Vienna, 15 September 2007) on the proposal of the Executive Committee to appoint Prof. dr. T. Ben Mepham as Honorary Member of the Society. The rights and position of Honorary Membership are formulated in the Statutes.

Professor Peter Sandøe
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter Sandøe was awarded the title of Honorary Member of EurSafe during the 14^thEurSafe congress in Vienna, for his tireless efforts for the society while he was president of EurSafe.