Speaker profile
Dr Dag Kappes
Senior Scientific Adviser, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
Dag Kappes, Dr. rer. nat., Master in Chemistry,
1990/1991 postdoctoral fellowship.
1992-1999 scientific officer at the Notification Unit for Chemicals at the German Federal Institute for Occupational Health and Safety BAuA. 2000 ??? 2002 seconded national expert to the European Commission (Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy).
Since 2003, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health FOHP in the field of chemical safety.
2005 - 2013, setting up and managing the notification authority for chemicals.
Since 2014, working on the further development of Swiss chemicals legislation including regulatory impact assessments on chemicals.