Speaker profile
Dr Dag Kappes
Senior Scientific Adviser, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
Dag Kappes, Dr. rer. nat., Master in Chemistry,
1990/1991 postdoctoral fellowship.
1992-1999 scientific officer at the Notification Unit for Chemicals at the German Federal Institute for Occupational Health and Safety BAuA. 2000 – 2002 seconded national expert to the European Commission (Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy).
Since 2003, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health FOHP in the field of chemical safety.
2005 - 2013, setting up and managing the notification authority for chemicals.
Since 2014, working on the further development of Swiss chemicals legislation including regulatory impact assessments on chemicals.