Member of Cosmetics Expert Committee of Beijing Food and Drug Administration; Member of cosmetic Sub-technical Committee of China Technical Committee of Fragrance Flavor and Cosmetics Standardization; Member of Professional Committee of Cosmetic Science and Technology of China Health Inspection Association; Member of Medical Skincare and Noninvasive Testing Group of Chinese Non-government Medical Institutions Association Committee of Dermatology; Member of Medical Cosmetology Professional Committee of Beijing Society of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine; Member of the Editorial Board of China Surfactant Detergent and Cosmetics and Detergent and Cosmetics; Secretary General of Beijing Daily Chemical Association

Ms. Hongwei Zhang is Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee on Cosmetic Safety of State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), member of the SFDA Standardization Committee for Cosmetics, and Managing Director of Beijing Environmental Mutagen Society. She has been mainly engaged in toxicological evaluation related to environmental toxicology, risk assessment, health-related products, etc. She has undertaken several national projects as the project leader and participated in handling several national major public health emergencies as the chief expert. She has also been the editor-in-chief of several books and responsible for drafting a number of national standards.

As a researcher of Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, concurrently holding the posts of Secretary-General and Deputy Director of the Standards Committee of Shanghai Society of Toxicology, he has long been engaged in scientific research, teaching and standard formulation of alternative methods of translational toxicology, and engaged in the innovation and industrial application of evaluation methods of cosmetic safety and efficacy. Additionally, he has developed a series of models for reconstructing human skin and a series of human chip products; established a standard system for alternative methods of cosmetic testing; set up an alternative method research & evaluation center and a third-party in vitro science laboratory; established an academic exchange and education training mechanism to promote the formation of in vitro science consensus in daily chemical industry. He is the editor-in-chief of 6 academic works on toxicology and alternative sciences, and has undertaken more than 30 projects at all levels and won 11 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards. He has published more than 80 papers and obtained 11 invention patents. He is also the postgraduate supervisor at Sun Yat-Sen University and other universities, and as an expert provides science and technology consulting service for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Guangdong and other provinces and cities. He serves as the member of the editorial board of many academic journals, and serves in many academic organizations such as the European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing, the Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences, and Chinese Environmental Mutagen Society.

Jiang Ligang, who was graduated from Zhejiang University with a major in Polymer Chemical Engineering in 1995, is currently the Chief R&D Officer of Proya Cosmetics Co., Ltd. He has 42 national patents, is the maker of 10 national cosmetics standards, and the first drafter of 4 group standards of cosmetic efficacy evaluation. He concurrently serves as the member of the Cosmetic Technical Subcommittee of the National Fragrance Flavor and Cosmetics Standardization Technical Committee; member of the Cosmetics Industry of the Industry Expert Committee of China Association of Fragrance Flavor and Cosmetics Industries; Deputy Secretary-General of Zhejiang Cosmetics Standardization Technical Committee; Vice President of Zhejiang Health Products & Cosmetics Industry Association; expert member of Perfume and Aroma & Cosmetics Research Center of Shanghai Institute of Technology; the external mentor for postgraduates majoring in Chemical Engineering of School of Science, Beijing Technology and Business University.

Mr. Yifan He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Australia as a biomedical engineering major, focusing on the research of compatibility and safety of medical devices with human body and other aspects. He now works in the field of cosmetics regulatory science and cosmetics efficacy evaluation. He is currently the Associate Dean of the Cosmetic Regulatory Research Institute of National Medical Products Administration in Beijing Technology and Business University, and the director of China Inspection and Testing Society.

Director of Professional Technical Committee of Cosmetics Efficacy Evaluation of Beijing Daily Chemical Association Member of Cosmetics Safety and Efficacy Evaluation Research Team of Beijing Technology and Business University Having been working on cosmetic efficacy evaluation for more than 10 years, Mr. Wu has rich experience in cosmetic efficacy evaluation. Over the years, he has led, organized and engaged in cosmetics efficacy evaluation and testing, and led the team to participate in the establishment of a number of national, industrial and group standards. Research and Establishment of Standards 2013: Guidelines and Research on Whitening Efficacy Evaluation of Cosmetics 2011: Guidelines for the Moisturizing Effect Evaluation of Cosmetics (QB/T 4256-2011) 2015: Guidelines for Validation of Cosmetic Efficacy Claims - Draft for Comments

Birgit Huber has studied food-technology in Stuttgart-Hohenheim. Since 1985 she works for IKW (The German Cosmetic, Toiletry, Perfumery and Detergent Association). She had started as scientific assistant and since 1989 she is Head of the Expertise Partner Beauty Care. Since June 2005 she is also Deputy Director of IKW. She is a member in different scientific and technical working groups in Germany and Europe, eg. the German Cosmetics Commission at BfR (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment), Board of GEPA (non-profit making association which supports the Information Network of Departments of Dermatology for the surveillance and scientific evaluation of contact allergies (IVDK), Cosmetics Europe. She has given many presentations on international events on cosmetics. Furthermore she has published in English and German magazines. In 1987 Birgit Huber received the Maison de Navarre-Award of the IFSCC (International Federation of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists) in Santiago de Chile.

Ms. Ren Yuan graduated from Harbin Medical University. She is the Chief Physician/Researcher of the Institute for Environmental and Related Products Safety of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Deputy Director of the Cosmetic Standards Expert Committee of the National Medical Products Administration. Over the years, Ms Yuan Ren has worked in the field of cosmetics safety evaluation, participated in the formulation and revision of cosmetics related regulations, standards and norms, drafted cosmetics related regulations for the National Medical Products Administration, and completed a number of research subjects and projects on cosmetics safety evaluation. She has participated in many expert review meetings on the review and evaluation of administrative licensing of cosmetics, mainly involving the review of cosmetics packaging and label publicity, and also participated in the national professional technical training courses in cosmetics organized by the National Medical Products Administration for many times. She has taken part in the emergency treatment of cosmetic safety emergencies and the safety evaluation of cosmetics undertaken by the Ministry of Health and the National Medical Products Administration for several times, and published many papers on the health and safety of cosmetics. She has completed special scientific research projects in the health industry of the Ministry of Health, such as "Key Detection Technology Research and System Establishment for Prohibited Ingredients in Health-related Products (Cosmetics)" and "Safety Evaluation of Hair Dye Products on the Market", as well as the Sino-Japanese cooperation project "Safety Evaluation of Hair Dye Cosmetics". Her major papers in recent years include "Review, Reflection and Thoughts on Public Emergencies of Cosmetics in China" and "Investigation and Discussion on the Current Situation of the Use of Anti-freckle and Whitening Ingredients in Cosmetics in China", etc.

Gerald Renner holds a PhD in biochemical engineer, having studied at the Technical University of Graz, Austria, and the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. After some additional studies in immunology and cell culture techniques, he joined the Brussels-based EU Trade Association for cosmetics and personal care products "Cosmetics Europe" (then Colipa) in 1996. After working for several years on ingredient safety, he was appointed as the Director for Technical Regulatory Affairs in 2001, dealing with the implementation and application of the EU Cosmetics Regulation as well as regulatory aspects of other technical legislations affecting cosmetics. Since 2010 he is also responsible for Cosmetics Europe's activities on international regulatory convergence.