• Leon Gorris is an independent food safety expert with 36 years experience in research, food innovation and food safety management in private and public contexts
• Leon chairs the Food Safety Committee of IUFoST and is a fellow of IAFoST.
• He is secretary of ICMSF (International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods) and represents ICMSF at Codex Alimentarius
• He is on the roster of experts for JEMRA (the FAO/WHO Joint Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment).;
• He is a visiting professor at three Universities in China (China Agricultural University's, Shanghai Ocean University, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology) and held a part-time professorship (European Chair in Food Safety Microbiology) at the University of Wageningen, NL, for 10 years.