The Organising Committee is responsible for the overall planning and delivery of the World Salt Symposium.
It oversees the strategic direction of the event, ensures smooth coordination among partners and contributors, and manages all operational aspects — from logistics and programme development to communications, sponsorship and participant services.
Bringing together representatives with long-standing experience in the salt sector, the committee ensures that the Symposium reflects the diversity, expertise, and forward-looking spirit of the global salt community.
Chair
Urs Hofmeier EUsalt (EU) BiographyDr Urs Ch. Hofmeier is an independent Board Member and a strategy consultant. He was CEO of Swiss Salt Works, president of EUsalt and holds a PhD in Chemistry and an MBA
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Kwame Agyei Apeaning Precious Premium Salt (PPS) & Ghana Chamber of Salt Producers-Exporters (GH)
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Dr. Katarzyna Cyran Polish Salt Mining Association (PL)
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Dr. Franz Goetzfried Salt Research & Consulting (DE)
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Joyce Greene Iodine Global Network (IGN)
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Jeff Kilborn Atlas Salt Inc.
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Patrick Laracy Atlas Salt Inc. (CA)
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Wouter Lox International Alliance of Salt Producers
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Jenny Martin Essential Minerals Association (US)
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Roberto Monteiro Norsal
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Sergio Arturo Moreno Mexican Salt Industry Association (MX)
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John Nadeau Solution Mining Research Institute (SMRI)
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Tetsuji Saitoh The Society of Sea Water Science (JP)
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Dr. Stefan Schlag Salt Market Information (CH)
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Rene Schneider Solution Mining Research Institute (SMRI)
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Werner Schultink Iodine Global Network (IGN)
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Vladimir M. Sedivy Salt Partners Ltd. BiographyVladimir M. Sedivy, MSc IMD, is a chemical engineer and President of Salt Partners Ltd in Switzerland. In the past, he built petrochemical plants with Badger in London, evaporation plants with Escher Wyss and chlorine plants with Krebs Swiss in Zurich. He invented the HYDROSAL® salt purification process with hydroextraction of impurities and implemented salt and chloralkali projects on all continents.
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Andre Snyman Walvis Bay Salt (NA)
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Stan Soderstrom IGN and Kiwanis International
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Catherine Zhang China Salt association
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Luiz Césio Caetano Sal Cisne
