Chantal Van den Bossche works as communications specialist at WECF, Women Engage for a Common Future, an international ecofeminist network of over 250 women's and environmental organisations in 72 countries worldwide, with a historical focus on Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus.  Prior to WECF, Chantal worked as a journalist. She obtained a degree in Russian Language from Gerzen University, St. Petersburg and a Masters in Eastern European Studies from the University of Amsterdam, where the focus of her research was on the social stigma of AIDS and HIV in the former Soviet Union.

With WECF Chantal works on building awareness on the importance of a healthy non-toxic environment, from a feminist perspective. She represents WECF at the stakeholder group for REACH and SVHC (Substances of Very High Concern) at the Dutch Ministry of Environment and co-wrote WECF publications on Gender and Chemicals and Toxic Free Periods, such as ‘Why the European Green Deal needs Ecofeminism’. At the moment she also works with partners in Ukraine on an EU funded green energy efficient reconstruction project, training women to become energy auditors.  Recently Chantal has also become politically active, she was recently appointed as International Secretary for the Pink Network of the Dutch Social Democrats (PvdA) and as Dutch representative for the PES LGBTIQ+ network Rainbow Rose.

Kim van Sparrentak is a Dutch member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA since 2019. She is coordinator of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee, where she works on Digital Affairs and Greening the Single Market.

She is also a member of the committee on Employment and Social Affairs, where she works on workers' rights in the digital economy, and housing. In all the work she does, she incorporates a gender perspective on things, as she did with the General Product Safety Regulation where she proposed a gender safety test for products.

Rudie Vella is the Director (Market Surveillance) within the Maltese authority responsible for consumer affairs and competition – the MCCAA. He leads the Directorate on all aspects of the monitoring and enforcement of product safety and pesticides control legislation. Rudie is a mechanical engineer by profession, an accredited lead auditor and specialises in conformity assessments and advanced materials.

Having worked in global and international companies within the pharmaceutical and gas industries, he has comprehensive experience spearheading projects with colleagues around the globe to reach a common objective. Rudie believes that building trust, sound problem-solving skills and participant engagement are amongst the most important ingredients that made the projects he led a success.

Rudie later joined the public sector as a senior manager at the MCCAA, where he strengthened further the risk-based thinking and evidence-based approach adopted by the Authority. This led to the successful achievement of internationally recognised accreditations and certifications. In his current role as director, Rudie adopts the same approach vis-à-vis market surveillance with a vision to have a market where consumer welfare is enhanced and fair trading prevails. He is convinced that some product safety issues can only be addressed concretely through collective effort by Member States, such as through CASP activities. Under his direction, the MCCAA has received a special recognition by the European Commission for the number of measures taken for samples collected during these coordinated activities.