Chair College

The Chair College is composed of the previous and present Chairmen of BioVision conferences.
(Titles at  the time of Chairmanship)

    

Science
  
- Prof.Werner Arber, Nobel Laureate, University of Basel - BioZentrum
- Prof. Etienne Emile Baulieu, President, Académie des Sciences
- Dr.Rita Colwell, Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland & the Johns Hopkins University;
former Director, National Science Foundation; Head, Life Sciences, Canon
- Prof. Peter Doherty, Nobel Medicine 1996; Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne
- Prof.Richard Flavell, Chief Scientific Officer, Ceres Inc. (U.S.A.)
- Prof. Mike Gale, Fellow of the Royal Society; Head, Comparative Genetics Unit, John Innes Centre (UK)
- Prof. Claude Helene, Professor at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Member, Académie des Sciences
- Prof.Thomas Hoban, Professor of Sociology, North Carolina State University
- Prof.Axel Kahn, Research Director, INSERM, Member of the National Advisory Ethics Committee
- Prof. Gerald T. Keusch, Associate Dean, School of Public Health, Boston University; former Director, Fogarty International Centre - NIH
- Prof.Philippe Kourilsky, Director-General, Institut Pasteur; Professor, Collège de France
- SirPeter Lachmann, President, Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)
- Prof. Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
- Prof.Guy Ourisson, former President, Académie des Sciences
- Prof.M.S. Swaminathan, President,M.S. SwaminathanResearch Foundation (India);
UNESCO, Chair in Ecotechnology
- Prof. Jennifer A. Thomson, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cape Town University
- Prof.Marc Van Montagu, Professor Emeritus, University of Gent
- Prof.Alexander Zehnder, Director, EAWAG; Professor, Environmental Biotechnology, FIT

Society
 
- Mrs. Tracey Brown, Director, Sense About Science
- Mr. Kul Chandra Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
- Mrs.Julie Hill, Director, Green Alliance (UK)
- Dr. Eric Meslin, former Executive Director, National Bioethics Advisory Commission; Director, Indiana University, Centre for Bioethics; Professor of Medicine, Philosophy and Molecular & Medical Genetics
- Mr.Jim Murray, Director, European Consumers Association
- Dr.Michael Oborne, Director, International Futures Programme, OECD
- Mr.Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
- Mr. Prabhu Pingali, Director, Agricultural & Development Economics Division, FAO
- Mr. Ysbrand Poortman, Chairman, European Platform Patient Organisations (The Netherlands)
- Mr.Mark Ritchie, President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (U.S.A.)
- Dr. Guénaêl Rodier, Director, Department of Communicable Diseases Surveillance & Response, WHO
- Prof. Joanna Rubinstein, Director of Strategic Programs Earth Institute, Columbia University
- Dr.Ismail Serageldin, former Vice President Special Programmes, The World Bank
- Prof.Klaus Töpfer, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations; Executive Director, UN Environment Programme; former German Minister for Environment

Industry
 
- Dr.Göran Ando, Executive Vice President & President R&D, Pharmacia Corporation
- Dr.Pol Bamelis, Member of the Board of Management, Bayer AG
- Mr.F. GuillaumeBastiaens, Vice Chairman, Cargil
- Dr. Thomas M. Connelly, Senior Vice President & Chief Science and Technology Officer, DuPont S
- Dr. Peter Doyle, Executive Director, Zeneca
- Dr. Wolfgang Gawrisch, Head of Central Research, Henkel KGa
- Dr. Peter Goodfellow, Senior Vice President, Discovery Research, R&D, GlaxoSmithKline
- Mr.Heinz Imhof, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Syngenta
- Dr.Hans Kast, President & Chief Executive Officer, BASF Plant Science; Vice Chairman, EuropaBio
- Prof.Jonathan Knowles, President of Global Research, Roche Group; Member of the Executive Committee, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
- Dr.Helmut Koch, Vice President R&D, Eridania Beghin-Say S.A.
- Mr. Emmo Meijer, Professor; Senior Vice President, Unilever Foods R&D
- Prof. Jean-François Minster, Scientific Director, Total
- Mr. Andrea Rappagliosi, Vice President Health Policy & Government Relations, Merck Serono International SA
- Mr.Steen Riisgaard, President & Chief Executive Officer, Novozymes A/
- Dr. George R. Siber, Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, Wyeth Vaccines
- Mr.Feike Sijbesma, Managing Board of Directors, DSM; Chairman, EuropaBio