International Affairs Committee

The Association is a member of the Council of European Dentists (CED), the International Dental Federation (FDI) and its European Regional Organisation (ERO), the Commonwealth Dental Association (CDA) and the International Standards Organisation (ISO). To ensure input into policy work and governance matters, BDA representatives hold or have held roles in various organisations.

Our priorities

Advises on current themes and issues
Provide the delegations to relevant meetings
Make recommendations to the PEC about roles for BDA representatives in other organisations
The 2023 agenda includes a focus on: Amalgam, Antimicrobial Resistance, Medical Devices, Mental Wellbeing, Regulation, Sustainability, Workforce.

Our team

Chair

Victor Chan

Victor started his single-handed private practice as a squat in 1985 and is now seeing the fourth generation of his loyal patients. Prevention has been at the heart of his practice.

Committee members

Mick Armstrong (PEC member, FDI Dental Practice Committee Chair)

Jeremy Boyles (Young Dentists Committee)

George Cherukara (Commonwealth Dental Association – CDA - Vice President, European Region)

Peter Crooks (PEC Deputy Chair)

Laura Cross (Chair of EE&DT WG)

Eddie Crouch (PEC Chair)

Peter Dyer (Member of Central Committee for Hospital Dental Services – CCHDS)

James Field (Association of Dental Education In Europe – ADEE – Board member)

Sophie Fleming (Young Dentists Committee)

John Milne (BDA President)

Susie Sanderson (FDI Speaker)

Get in touch

For more information contact committee secretary Ulrike Matthesius: ulrike.matthesius@bda.org.