- President of ICC 2022/23 (International Association for Cereal Science and Technology)
- Founding Board member of GHI (Global Harmonization Initiative)
- Coordinator of the knowledge alliance EuFooD-STA
- President of the SEA-ABT Association (South East Asia Academy for Beverage Technology)
- Chair Regional Section EHEDG Austria and EHEDG certified Trainer
- GHI2025 Congress Scientific Committee Chair
- GHI Working Groups Director and GHI President
- Research Fellow, Sustainability Policy Institute, Curtin University, Australia
- Past President of the Global Harmonization Initiative
- Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology
- (Co)-editor of many books on hygiene and food safety; food processing technologies and harmonization of food safety regulations
- Visiting professor at the National University of Food Technologies in Kiev, Ukraine
Local organising committee
- Department of Molecular Biology & Microbial Food Safety, Director College of Life Sciences (FNWI), Director Biomedical Sciences UvA (FNWI-AMC), Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Assistant Professor Nutrition and Food Information, Food Claims Centre Venlo, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
- Personal Professor, Laboratory of Food Microbiology of Wageningen University, the Netherlands
International organising committee
- GHI Communication Director and GHI Board member
- Teaching Fellow on Food Quality Assurance, Food Product Development and Food Systems Management at Coventry University, UK
- Independent Insight and Communications Consultant, Interim Manager and Trainer – Silver Dialogue, UK
- Distinguished professor, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, Honorary president of Nutrition Society of Taiwan
- Goodwill Ambassador, UN, Fellow, IUFoST
- Associate Professor in Food Science, Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon
- GHI Board member
- George Coumantaros Distinguished Professor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- President, International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST)
- Fellow and mentor for IUFoST young scientists
- Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Ghent University, Belgium
- Head of the Board, Analysis Centre of Agrarian Union of Ukraine
- FairFood-Ukraine cluster, Food Safety School project coordinator
Organising committee advisor
- GHI Board member
- Emeritus Professor, Department of Food Science, Cornell University, USA