The Foundation Board is the legal steering organ of the FPF. It takes all strategic decisions, approves the annual audit report and supervises the FPF’s operations. The members of the Foundation Board receive no financial compensation. They are board members in their personal capacity as professionals, not as representatives of their home institutions. Affiliations are merely given for informational purposes.
Function |
Name |
Affiliation |
Expertise |
President |
Prof. Dr. Martin Scheringer | RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland | Chemistry, environmental fate more |
Member of the Board ![]() |
Petra Hieber | advocacy AG, Zurich, Switzerland | Science communication more |
Member of the Board |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Backhaus | University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Environmental science, chemical risk assessment, mixture toxicity more |
Member of the Board |
Prof. Dr. John Peterson Myers | Environmental Health Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America | Endocrine disruptors, science communication more |
Former Board Members:
Prof. Miquel Porta, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Angel Nadal, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
Dr. Xenia Trier, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Food), Denmark, presently at the European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark