Benno Ter Kuile

Benno ter kuile has been a policy advisor and researcher on the subject of antimicrobial resistance since 2001. Before that he had an academic career in microbiology and protozoology. Working for the Office for Risk Assessment & Research of The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority and the legal predecessors, he needed more information than was available on the relationship between exposure to antimicrobials and the development and spreading of antibiotic resistance. Therefore he started a research group at the University of Amsterdam focusing on that subject. He later became a full professor there on the subject of antimicrobial resistance in the food chain. He has (co-)authored some 50 articles on the subject and is associate editor for two journals, specializing on the topic of antibiotic resistance.