Committees

Executives Group

The LRI Executives Group consists of the executive directors of the five Full Partner organisations.

Ms Linda Hummel

Chief Executive Officer, NLR (Chair)

Mr Bill Simmons

President and Chief Executive Officer, American Leprosy Missions (ALM)

Mr Joachim Beringer

Executive Director, German Leprosy and Relief Association (GLRA)

Mr Brent Morgan

International Director, The Leprosy Mission International (TLMI)

Mr Iñigo Lasa

General Director, Anesvad Foundation

Steering Committee

The LRI is guided by a Steering Committee comprising the following scientists:

Prof. Jan Hendrik Richardus 

Emeritus Professor of Infectious Diseases and Public Health (retired), Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam (Chair)

Dr Peter Steinmann

Project Leader, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Chair SRC R2Stop

Dr Wim H. van Brakel

Medical Director, NLR

Dr Christa Kasang

Research Coordinator, GLRA

Jannine Ebenso

Head of Quality Assurance, TLMI

Dr Sunil Anand

Regional Director Asia, ALM

Dr Lucrecia Acosta

Representative of Anesvad Foundation
Associate professor at the University of Michael Hernandez de Elche 

Scientific Review Committee

The quality and progress of LRI-financed research projects are assessed by the independent Scientific Review Committee, which advises the LRI on the approval and financing of research proposals.

Dr R.W. Truman (Chair)

Former Chief of the Laboratory Research Branch of the National Hansen’s Disease Program, USA, and Principal Investigator of the Leprosy Research Support program of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Dr A.P. Koets (Member)

Head of the National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacterial Infections and Tuberculosis at Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR), the Netherlands.

Prof. Dr P.D. Deps (Member) 

Full Professor at Department of Social Medicine, Postgraduate Programme in Infectious Diseases, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil.

Prof. F. Portaels (Member)

Professor Emeritus Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.

Prof. P. Fine (Member)

Professor Emeritus of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

Dr Z.B. da Silva Pereira (Member)

Adjunct Associate Professor (External Professor), Psychology Department, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil.

Dr C. White (Member)

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University, USA.

Dr K.M. Dupnik (Member)

Assistant Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, as well as faculty in the Center for Global Health, USA.

Dr F.J. Slim (Member)

Rehabilitation Specialist and Staff Member, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Rivierenland Hospital, Tiel, the Netherlands.