Director of Research & Toxicology, Humane Society International
Troy Seidle is Director of Research & Toxicology for Humane Society International. He leads all of the Humane Society’s global work to end the use of animals in scientific experiments, including HSI’s Make Animal Testing History Campaign, which aims to abolish the cruel poisoning of animals in product safety tests.
Much of Seidle's work involves outreach to policy makers and scientists in the corporate, governmental, academic, and non-profit communities to build consensus on strategies for ending animal toxicity testing while continuing to protect the environment and human health from chemical and other hazards. He was a leading contributor to political negotiations surrounding the European Union’s “REACH” chemicals regulation, and is currently engaged in similar discussions in the pesticide, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food additive, and other sectors. Seidle is also the driving force behind a multi-year, European-funded project called AXLR8, which aims to accelerate the move toward animal-free approaches to safety testing through internationally coordinated research and development.
Seidle serves on a number of influential committees at national and international levels, including those of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Commission, the International Life Sciences Institute, and the European Partnership on Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing. He previously served consecutive terms on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee, on a European Commission expert group to establish a timetable for phasing out animal testing of cosmetics, and on scientific task forces of the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods.
Before joining HSI, Seidle served as senior science-policy advisor to a number of national and international animal protection organizations. As a former director of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, Seidle was appointed to the governing body of the Canadian Council on Animal Care, and served as a community representative on CCAC assessments of Canadian animal research facilities, which enabled him to witness the plight of animals in laboratories.
Seidle holds an honours health sciences degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and is currently a visiting scientist in the faculty of biology at the University of Konstanz in Germany.
