Confirmed speakers for the upcoming conference in Denmark 2026.
- Keynote speaker: Sebastian Everding, Member of the European Parliament, Animal Welfare Party, Germany
- Dr Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup, Associate Professor, DVetMed, PhD, Dr. Vet. Sci., Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, Aarhus University Hospital & Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Dr Catarina Jota Baptista, DVM, MSc. Vet Medicine, PhD in Veterinary Sciences, Assistant Professor in Egas Moniz School of Health and Science, Portugal
- Vicky Grant, Saving Uist Nature Project Manager, RSPB Scotland & Thomas Churchyard, Islands Manager, RSPB Scotland, UK
- Elaine O’Riordan, PhD researcher, Zoology, University of Galway, Ireland
- Dr Anja Varmløse Strathe, Associate Professor at Section for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Paul Michael Reynolds BSc (Hons), MSc. Chair, British Wildlife Rehabilitation Council and Co-Manager of New Arc Wildlife Rescue
- Dr Brawin Kumar, Hedgehog Conservation Alliance, India
- Grace Johnson, Hedgehog Officer for People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS)
- Emma Ormiston, BSc in Applied Animal Science, Wildlife Supervisor, Secret World Wildlife Rescue
- Lea J. Grayston-Smith, PhD research student, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading (UK) & Company Director of “Hogs on Film C.I.C.”
- Amaury Van Goethem, DVM, PhD Student, ECVM Resident, Wildlife Health and Pathology Service, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège (ULiège), Belgium
- Dr Heidi Thomsen, Assistant professor at Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Emily Thrift, Doctoral Student , School of Life Science, University of Sussex, UK
- Dr Henrik Lauridsen, Associate Professor at Department of Clinical Medicin- Comparative Medicine Lab, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Diane and Andrew Cook, Prickly Pigs Hedgehog Rescue, UK
- Dr Hannah Davies, Scientist, Mammalian Virology Investigation Unit, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), UK
- Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Research Fellow at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford, UK and Assistant Professor at the Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Katrien Franssen, veterinarian at Natuurhulpcentrum, Belgium
- Angelique Lofaro, B.Pharm(Hons), MSc.Pharm, PhD student at the Institute of Earth Systems, University of Malta. Wildlife Rescue Team Malta Coordinator within Nature Trust – FEE Malta
- Carys Harry, MSc Wildlife Health Science student at Royal Veterinary College, UK
- Rikke Hansen, DVetMed, City Dyreklinik, Denmark
- Hugh Warwick, author, ecologist and spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, UK
- Vicki Oliver, Brockworth Hedgehog Rescue, UK
- Rebecca Victoria Marquard Bay, BSc in Animal Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dr Lucy Bearman-Brown, Senior Lecturer, Hartpury University, UK
- Simone Lorenzen, BSc in Animal Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dylan Yaffy, BSc (Hons) BVetMed (Hons) MVetMed DACVP PGCert(VetED) FHEA MRCVS, Lecturer in Zoo and Wildlife Pathology – Royal Veterinary College, UK
- Ann Wairimu Kinyanjui, MSc, University of Copenhagen & Statens Serum Institut, Denmark
- Abinesh Muthaiyan, MSc in Ecology, PhD student at Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, India
- Professor Peter Sandøe, Section for Consumption, Bioethics and Governance, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
