Scientific and Program Committee
Co-Chairs
- Panpimol Lotrakul
- Director, Rajanukul Institute, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Céline Mercier
- Director, Research and Education, Gabrielle-Major, Lisette-Dupras and West Montreal Readaptation Centres for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Professor, University of Montreal.
Members
- Hissa Al Thani
- United Nations Special Rapporteur on Disability, Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Disability, Doha – Qatar.
- Parameshvara Deva
- Vice President for Western Pacific, World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Malaysia.
- Adriana Diaz
- Coordinator, Accion Contra el Hambre, Argentina.
- Eric Emerson
- Professor of Disability and Health Research, Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK.
- Kent Ericsson
- Researcher, Department of Education, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
- Patrick Fougeyroullas
- Board of Directors, Rehabilitation International.
- David Gold
- Senior Specialist, Psychosocial Issues, International Labour Office.
- Vivian Guerdan
- President, Association Internationale de Recherche sur le Handicap Mental (AIRHM).
- Susan Hayes
- Head, Centre for Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia.
- Paul Hunt
- United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health.
- Henry Kwok
- Head Psychiatric Unit for Learning Disabilities, Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong.
- Yves Lachapelle
- Head Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada.
- Jocelin Lecomte
- Information and Research Consultant, Gabrielle-Major, Lisette-Dupras and West Montreal Readaptation Centres for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Canada.
- Itzhak Levav
- Consultant at WHO in the West Bank and Gaza and Advisor on Research at the Ministry of Health, Israel.
- Ruth Luckasson
- RDistinguished, Professor, Chair, Department of Educational Specialities University of New Mexico, USA
- Gerardo Mejia
- General Director, National Children Hospital of Nicaragua Director, Asociación Nicaraguense para la Integración Comunitaria (ASNIC), Nicaragua.
- Nahit Motavalli Mukaddes
- Professor of Child Psychiatry; Director, Autism Clinic, Istanbul University, Turkey.
- Ghulam Nabi Nizamani
- President, All Sanghar Handicapped Association, Pakistan.
- Rémi Quirion
- Scientific Director, Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Director, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, Canada.
- L. Govinda Rao
- Head, Medical Research and Training and Disability, Byrraju Foundation, India.
- Diane Richler
- President, Inclusion International.
- Eric Rosenthal
- Founder and Executive Director, Mental Disability Rights International.
- Luis Salvador-Carulla
- Chair, Section “Psychiatry and Mental Retardation (Intellectual Disability)” World Psychiatric Association, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cadiz, Spain.
- Shekhar Saxena
- Coordinator, Mental Health Evidence and Research Team, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO).
- Uma Tuli
- Funded Managing Secretary, Amar Jyoti Research and Rehabilitation Center, India.
- Patricia Walsh
- President-elect, International Association for Scientific Studies in Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID).
- Paul Young
- Self-Advocate, Young and Associates, Canada.