The mission of this committee is to give various advices and suggestions to the Organizing Committee, and help the International Scientific Committee and Local Organizing Committee to develop and promote the 13th IBS. The membership of this committee will be updated.

Chair
Prof. Zhu Chen
Minister of Health, China

Co-chairs
Prof. Daniel I. C. Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Prof. Murray Moo-Young
University of Waterloo, Canada

Members
Prof. Juan A. Asenjo
Chair, IBS-2004
University of Chile, Chile

Prof. Peter Gray
Chair, IBS-1996
University of Queensland, Australia

Prof. Yoon Mo Koo
Senior Vice President, Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Inha University, Korea

Dr. Rosario G. Monsalud
President, Philippine Society for Microbiology
University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines

Prof. Marc Van Montagu
President, European Federation of Biotechnology
Ghent University, Belgium

Prof. Pingkai Ouyang
Vice President, Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China
President, Nanjing University of Technology, China

Prof. Alfred Pühler
Chair, IBS-2000
University of Bielefeld, Germany

Dr. M. Radhakrishna Pillai
President, Society for Biotechnologists, India
Director, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India

Prof. Suteaki Shioya
President, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan
Osaka University, Japan

Dr. Sven Stegemann
President, European Association of Pharma Biotechnology
Director, Global Pharmaceutical Business Development, Belgium

Dr. Hongguang Wang
Vice President, Chinese Society of Biotechnology
Director, China National Center for Biotechnology Development, China