Dr. Fani Hatjina is a biologist with a PhD on Pollination. She graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki- Greece and undertook her Diploma and PhD studies in University of Wales College of Cardiff- UK. She has been working as a researcher in Department of Apiculture of ELGO 'DIMITRA' in Greece since 2000 and since 2018 she is also serving as Director of the Institute of Animal Science and Department of Apiculture. Fani is a Council member of International Bee Research Association (IBRA) since 2007, and Chair of IBRA Council since October 2022. Coordinator of the APIMONDIA Working group "Adverse effects of pesticides and veterinary medicines on bees". She is also the Chair of the Scientific Commission for Bee Health of the APIMONDIA Federation for a second mandate. She has about 70 published research articles, over 130 presentations in conferences and as many popular articles. Fani is also the Scientific Coordinator of 16 research Greek and Europeans research projects, a collaborating expert with European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and representative of Greece in OECD for bee related toxicology groups. Main research interests: bee breeding, breeding for resistance to Varroa, conservation of local breeds, effects of pesticides on bee's behaviour and physiology, biological control of diseases, and promoting apiculture through 'Apitourism'. At present she is the coordinator of a PRIMA- Mediterranean Collaboration project entitled “Safeguarding agroecosystem resilience under climate change through efficient pollination and sustainable beekeeping" (SafeAgroBee).

Sue Collins is a European environmental policy advisor to Butterfly Conservation Europe. Sue has decades of experience as a Director and advisor, bringing together science, strategy, policy and practice at national government and European levels. This includes sectoral and nature conservation policy development, implementation and evaluation. Sue is a member of the EU Pollinator Working Group and is experienced in building capacity for citizen science butterfly monitoring.

Anne Alix has worked in the regulatory risk assessment and management of plant protection products for 24 years. After a PhD in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) at the University of Rennes (France), Anne successively served as an ecotoxicologist at the National Institute of Research in Agronomy, as team leader of the Environment and Ecotoxicology risk assessment unit at the French Agency on Food Safety (now ANSES), and as a risk manager as deputy head of the Section for Regulation of Plant Protection Products and fertilisers at the French Ministry of Agriculture. Anne joined Corteva Agriscience in 2011, as their Policy Leader on Regulatory and Risk Management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa where she supports the region with sustainability-related policies, such as Integrated Pest Management, Digital technologies, and Precision Applications. Anne is a distinguished laureate and a mentor.

Ed Pilling completed his PhD studying the synergistic effects of pesticides on honeybees and then a post-doc at ICI Agrochemicals conducting field research on beneficial arthropods in rice in the Philippines. He then worked at Syngenta and legacy companies for 20 years eventually becoming the Global Head of Environmental Risk Assessment. During his time at Syngenta, he also led a team in Insecticide and Nematicide development and worked in Regulatory Affairs in Australia. After spending 5 years working in consultancy, he joined Corteva in 2016, focusing on pollinator and non-target arthropod issues and is now Global Head of Ecotoxicology.

Axel Hochkirch is Curator for Ecology at the National Museum for Natural History, Luxembourg and Associate Professor for Biodiversity & Conservation at Trier University, Germany. He has a wide research profile, dealing with the evolution, ecology and conservation of biology. His main interest is the conservation of invertebrates and he is also chair of the IUCN SSC Invertebrate Conservation Committee as well as co-chair of the IUCN SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group. Axel has led the development of several conservation action plans for insects and guided their implementation.

Ignasi Bartomeus is a researcher working at EBD-CSIC (Doñana Biological Station), Seville. He is a community ecologist broadly interested in understanding how global change drivers impact community structure and composition, and how those impacts affect ecosystem functioning and stability. He is increasingly interested in ecological theory and how to apply it to conservation problems. He likes to work with plant-pollinator communities because they show complex responses to land use change, climate warming or biological invasions, and encapsulate a critical ecosystem function, pollination. 

Martijn Thijssen (Netherlands) is secretary to Promote Pollinators, a network organization of over 30 countries that work on better circumstances for pollinators and pollination. Martijn is an experienced policy officer and has been working in the field of environmental policies for over 35 years. In the last decade his focus has been on natural capital and on biodiversity as a prerequisite for sustainable development.