The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD)

Standing Technical Committee

The Standing Technical Committee is selected based on individual expertise, and its primary objective is to provide independent scientific advice to the Commission, the Executive Committee and the Secretariat

Name

Country

Title

Stephan Zientara (Chairperson)

France

Director, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (ANSES) - Animal health laboratory

Nick De Regge

Belgium

Head of Service, Exotic and Vector-borne diseases, Sciensano (EURL for Capripoxviruses)

Guillaume Girault

France

Deputy Head, EURL for FMD, ANSES

Carola Sauter-Louis

Germany

Head of the Epidemiology Institute, Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health) 

Giovanni Savini

Italy

Director, EURL for RVF, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell' Abruzzo e Molise

Santina Grazioli

Italy

Head of NRL for vesicular diseases, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell' Emilia-Romagna

German Caceres Garrido   

Spain

Head of Epidemiology Department of the General Sudirectorate of Animal Health, Hygiene and Traceability (MAPA)

Katharina Stärk

Switzerland

Head of Science Department, Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen (BLV)

Phaedra Eblé

The Netherlands

Senior scientist, Virology Department, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR)

Abdulnaci Bulut

Türkiye

Virologist, Head of Serology, Şap Institute

Anna Ludi

United Kingdom

Head of Serology, WRL-FMD, The Pirbright Institute

James Wood

United Kingdom

Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science at the University of Cambridge