Geert Dancet is since January 2018 managing director of Dancet Company which provides strategic advice services to companies, governments and non-governmental organizations on chemicals legislation and competition matters. He is also the Secretary General of the Helsinki Chemical Forum which organizes each year a high-level global conference on chemicals safety. Up to end of 2017 he was the first elected Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for two mandates of five years. Under his leadership, the Agency successfully managed all regulatory processes of the REACH and CLP regulations. ECHA has become one of the large-size regulatory agencies of the EU with over 500 staff members in charge of the EU chemicals legislations, including the Biocidal Products and PIC regulations.

Graduated from the Department of Physics of Zhejiang University in 1998, Mr. Wei has developed a long-standing career as a testing and certification engineer and an expert in international chemical regulations. He worked at the Zhejiang Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, where he was responsible for the laboratory of the Technical Center. He has served as a laboratory testing engineer, internal auditor, CCC National Compulsory Certification Factory inspector, laboratory deputy director, chief of Business Section of the Technology Center, expert on the Drafting Working Group of National RoHS Restricted Substances and leader of the REACH Response Working Group of AQSIQ. In 2009, with the support of the government, REACH24H Consulting Group China and REACH COMPLIANCE SERVICES LIMITED IRELAND were established with an agency status. With a focus on international trade barriers and counteractions, Mr. Wei has achieved wide experience in the removal of trade barriers and the widening of market access for import and export companies.

Monika is an environmental physiologist, having received her BSc, MSc and Doctorate in plant biotechnology and genetic engineering. For the past 30 or so years, she has worked extensively in applied science and technology innovation in the fields of agriculture, forestry, and coastal and marine development. Prior to joining the UN Environment Programme, her work experience in Canada and South Africa included academia, policy implementation, environmental decision support systems, multi-stakeholder and private sector partnerships, small, medium and micro-enterprise technology transfer and capacity development. Monika has incorporated her multi-disciplinary science and technology background to environmental policy through her work at UNEP at the regional level, partnership management as the Deputy Director at UNEP-WCMC, and later as Deputy Director and Chief of both the Capacity Development, and the Scientific Assessment Branches in UNEP's Science Division. Until mid-January 2020, Monika was Deputy Director, and headed the Operations and Programme Delivery of UNEP's Ecosystems Division. She is now Chief of the Chemicals and Health Branch in UNEP's Economy Division overseeing UNEP's work in chemicals, waste, pollution and health, e-mobility, and the strategic partnership on waste management at the International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) located in Osaka, Japan.

Executive Board Member and Vice Secretary General, CPCIF Secretary General of Committee of Multinationals, CPCIF Chairman-elect of China Association of Controlled Chemicals Secretary General of the Going Global Confederation of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Vice Director General of Chemical Foreign Economic Cooperation Center Chairman & President of ProChem Resources Int’l Petrochemical Technology Development Do., Ltd. Chair, Chemical Dialogue, APEC Member of the Management Committee, World Plastic Council Adjunct Professor of UIBE, SIT & BUCT Senior Economist & International Marketing Expert He got Master’s Degree of Peking University at 1991 (at the period of 1988-1991, teaching at the University) and worked as project manager and then General Manager of the subsidiary company of China Machinery Import & Export Corporation from 1991 to 2002.( during such period, he worked temporarily at Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Thailand, etc. so was familiar with the business environment and culture of MENA countries). He was the General Manager, Buz. Unit, Genertec International Corporation. He edited and published some books such as Fuel Ethanol, Defining the Future—2030 and beyond for China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Foreign Economic Contracts, Dictionary of English Stylistics, Global Trend & China Opportunities, etc. He set up the platform to help the industry go global and finished multiple research projects as the policy advices to be submitted to related government departments like NDRC, MIIT and SASAC. Dozens of his articles on chemical management, energy, waste treatment, low-carbon strategy, etc. were published in newspapers. He actively advocated in the Industry green & sustainable development, TFS (green supply chain), circular economy, new plastic economy, responsible care, and etc.

Csilla Magyar is the Director for International Chemicals and Plastics Policy of Dow Inc. Based in Switzerland, Csilla leads the international chemicals and plastics policy and advocacy for Dow to promote the company’s policy interests with International and EU stakeholders including policy makers, regulators, International Governmental Organizations and NGOs. Csilla actively engages with industry associations including the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), PlasticsEurope and others. Csilla serves as co-chair of the ICCA Advocacy Taskforce and is a member of the ICCA ‘Chemicals Policy and Health’ Leadership Group and the Plastics Leadership Group, as well as of the PlasticsEurope International Policy Taskforce. Through these teams, she leads the company’s association participation in developing and shaping emerging chemicals and plastic related policies in multilateral environmental agreements, including the ‘Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management’ (SAICM), the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), and the Basel and Stockholm Conventions.

Dr Melissa Wang, senior scientist of Greenpeace International, have extensive experience on the international science-policy interface on environment conservation and sustainable development, focusing on addressing the sustainability issues along the chemicals and plastics value chain from a holistic life-cycle perspective and based on the precautionary principle. Building on her solid science work, Dr Wang has been invited by Inter-Governmental Organizations to serve on a range of steering committees (e.g. the UNEP steering committee for Global Chemical Outlook II), advisory committees (e.g. the UNEP Scientific Advisory Committee on Marine Plastic Litter and Microplastics), and as guest reviewers (e.g. to review chemical and plastics reports by the Global Environment Facility - Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, GEF-STEP), to inform international decision making. Representing Greenpeace at international environmental policy negotiation and meetings, Dr Wang has been following SAICM since 2015 and working dedicatedly with other stakeholders towards the establishment at ICCM5 of an ambitious beyond 2020 global mechanism for sound management of chemicals and wastes.

For many years, Prof. Liu has devoted himself to the emission, exposure, impact and policy studies on chemicals of high or emerging concern globally. He published Environmentally Sound Management of Chemicals (ESMC): Risk Management & Governance, which was the first monograph on ESMC in China. He used to be a member of the Chinese governmental delegation in the international meetings of the Stockholm Convention (2003-2015), SAICM (2009-2015), and Minamata Convention (2009-2017). He was the leading expert of the SAICM Quick Start Program (QSP) project of China，served as the chief editor of the National Profile of Chemicals Management in China. He used to be the chief drafter of the Chinese 12th Five-Years’ Plan (2010-2012) on Environmental Risk Control of Chemicals (2012) and the proposed White Paper and National Strategy on ESMC in China. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Chemicals Outlook II (GCO-II) of UNEP. He is a member of the Expert Review Committee for Chemicals Management of Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) of China, and a member of major expert committees on POPs, chemicals risk prevention and environmental chemistry of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (CSES).

Bob Diderich has been involved in environmental hazard and risk assessment of chemical substances since 1992, mainly working for the German and French authorities. In 2002 he joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development where was in charge of the OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme and the OECD Project on (Quantitative) Structure Activity Relationships. Since 2012 he is the head of the Environment, Health and Safety Division.

Joel Tickner's research focuses on the development of innovative scientific methods and policies to accelerate the design and application of safer products and manufacturing processes. He is a leading expert on environmental health, green chemistry, chemicals policy, and pollution prevention. Tickner is an internationally respected expert on how chemicals in everyday life can adversely affect adults and children and based on that understanding he has worked tirelessly to advocate for the adoption of safer alternatives in household products, manufacturing processes and more. His research has led to the establishment and growth of the field of chemical alternatives assessment, the process of comparing alternatives for chemicals of concern. He is the founding Executive Director of the Association for the Advancement of Alternatives Assessment, a professional association dedicated to advancing the science, practice, and policy of alternatives assessment and informed substitution. Tickner also founded the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3), a powerful network of more than 120 companies, bringing together the entire value chain from chemical producers to major brands and retailers. The GC3 occupies a unique role as a highly credible convener and facilitator of green chemistry commercialization, with access to leading-edge research and practice. Tickner is a professor of environmental health at University of Massachusetts-Lowell where he is Co-Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute, which provides resources and tools to help businesses, municipalities, and communities in Massachusetts find safer alternatives to toxic chemicals

Dr. Youhao Tong has years of experience engaging in high-tech, industrial economy, information technology, SME research work as well as other related strategic planning activities. He has directed and collaborated on over 30 ministerial and local major issues, and published over 70 articles at various levels and in various newspapers and journals. With a deep understanding of national industrial policies, Dr. Youhao Tong has participated in various trainings and conferences, and has given targeted speeches to enterprises to assist them in their interpretation of policies.

Li Qing, graduated from Zhejiang University. He is currently the General Manager of the Safety Production Management Center of Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. and the Secretary-General of the Sustainability Committee.

Anne-Sofie Andersson, Executive Director Anne-Sofie holds a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 2002, Anne-Sofie was involved in the startup of the environmental NGO ChemSec. She held the position Senior Policy Advisor until 2006, at which time she took over as ChemSec’s Executive Director. Under her tenure as Executive Director, ChemSec has grown into a well-respected player within the world of chemicals and developed world-class chemicals management tools such as the SIN List and the Marketplace. Anne-Sofie is also on the executive board of different organisations.

Dr. Eeva Leinala is the Principal Administrator of the Hazard Assessment Programme and the Risk Reduction Programme within the Chemicals Programme at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Eeva collaborates with OECD member countries and stakeholders to advance risk assessment and risk reduction of chemicals. She leads various project areas which include the application of new approach methodologies to integrated approaches to testing and assessment, tools development (OECD QSAR Toolbox, eChemPortal) and risk reduction projects including the Global PFC Group, the Ad-hoc Group for the Substitution of Harmful Chemicals, the Issue Team on Sustainable Chemistry and the Expert Group on Risk Management. Eeva is also collaborating on projects related to sustainable plastics, improving socioeconomic assessment of chemicals management, chemicals policy and the chemicals/waste policy interface. Prior to the OECD, Eeva worked in the area of chemical management at Health Canada for 12 years most recently as the senior manager for the Assessment Methodology Divisions of the Existing Substances Risk Assessment Bureau. Eeva holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Queen’s University in Canada.

Joel Tickner's research focuses on the development of innovative scientific methods and policies to accelerate the design and application of safer products and manufacturing processes. He is a leading expert on environmental health, green chemistry, chemicals policy, and pollution prevention. Tickner is an internationally respected expert on how chemicals in everyday life can adversely affect adults and children and based on that understanding he has worked tirelessly to advocate for the adoption of safer alternatives in household products, manufacturing processes and more. His research has led to the establishment and growth of the field of chemical alternatives assessment, the process of comparing alternatives for chemicals of concern. He is the founding Executive Director of the Association for the Advancement of Alternatives Assessment, a professional association dedicated to advancing the science, practice, and policy of alternatives assessment and informed substitution. Tickner also founded the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3), a powerful network of more than 120 companies, bringing together the entire value chain from chemical producers to major brands and retailers. The GC3 occupies a unique role as a highly credible convener and facilitator of green chemistry commercialization, with access to leading-edge research and practice. Tickner is a professor of environmental health at University of Massachusetts-Lowell where he is Co-Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute, which provides resources and tools to help businesses, municipalities, and communities in Massachusetts find safer alternatives to toxic chemicals

Jukka Malm joined the European Chemicals Agency in September 2008. He is currently leading the directorate of Submissions and Interaction, being responsible for ECHA communications, helpdesk and enforcement activities, as well as dossier submissions & processing, and data availability. In addition, he is coordinating the international activities of the agency. Mr Malm has been working in the field of chemicals legislation for 30 years and has been involved in a wide range of activities related to the risk assessment and risk management of chemicals at the national, EU, and global level. Prior to working at the Agency he worked as the Director of Expert Services at the Finnish Environment Institute and was also the first chairman of the Management Board of ECHA. He holds a Master’s degree in Agriculture and Forestry, specialising in Environmental Protection. Mr Malm is Finnish.

Sung Hyun Yim is the researcher of Korea Chemicals Management Association. He mainly engages in international and domestic chemical management system research. He started to build his expertise by managing chemical database of KCMA and providing Chemical Control Act(CCA) education for SMEs and foreign workers. He now supports ARECs(K-REACH) system management and participates in improvement research on managing substances subject to authorization & restriction.

MAO Da is now the director of Toxics Free Corps and the policy advisor of China Zero Waste Alliance. He holds a PhD degree in environmental history. Over the past 15 years, he has been actively working with different environmental NGOs for their efforts to reduce pollutions of wastes and toxic chemicals, and promote environmental health. In the academic area, he has published a book on the history of waste disposal in the ocean in the United States and finished a post-doctorate report on the history of social debate on dioxin. Currently his work focuses more on the promotion of zero waste strategy, sound management of chemicals, plastic pollution prevention and the greening of E-commerce.

Dr. Xiaowei Zhang is a molecular (eco)toxicologist and the Director of the Research Institute on Environmental Safety of Chemicals, Nanjing University. He obtained his BSc from Nanjing University in 2000, and MSc from the City University of Hong Kong in 2003 and a PhD from Michigan State University in 2008. His research interests include mechanistic understanding of the adverse ecological and health effects by pollutants, and development of novel approaches for ecological risk assessment. Dr. Zhang has published 150 papers and serves as an editor for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. He has been selected as an EST early career scientist by American Society of Chemistry (ASC)

Jim Wei graduated from the Department of Physics of Zhejiang University in 1998. He first began his carrer in chemical product registration and authorization with a 9-year position at the Zhejiang Entry-Exit Inspection & Quarantine Bureau (CIQ)’s Safety Test Laboratory. He later on became one of the founding members of REACH24H Consulting Group, a chemical consulting firm dedicated to providing regulatory compliance services. In 2015, Mr. Wei went on to establish the now famous DaddyLab., Ltd. to realize the mission of "discovering invisible hazards in life and keeping children away from toxic and harmful products", improves the quality of production in the consumer goods industry The company is committed to keeping consumers away from counterfeit and lower-quality toxic products. The company has been the leading source in many now relevant cases that exposed campus poisonous plastic runways, problematic school uniforms, kitchen wipes with excessive formaldehyde and other toxic and harmful products in daily-use products. As of now, DaddyLab has completed the testing of three to four hundred such commodities and has driven many manufacturers to improve their processes, and ultimately promoted the update of national standard on plastic tracking and the improvement and update of the standard for children's phone watches. In 2018, Mr. Wei was nominated as Outstanding Social Entrepreneur in China, and DaddyLab was selected as an innovation case by the European Business School and Stanford Social Innovation Review. He was invited to Harvard Business School, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Fudan and other institutions as Guest Keynote Speaker.