Speaker profile
Joost van Galen
Chair of the Biocidal Products Committee, European Chemicals Agency
Joost is Chair of the Biocides Products Committee and was previously team leader of the Biocidal Products Team and process coordinator for Union Authorisations. He worked on biocides for almost 10 years at the Dutch competent authority. During that period he worked in a number of roles, among others as project manager for biocidal products, chair of the Coordination Group and he was also a Seconded National Expert at ECHA. He holds a Ph.D. in medical biology.