Founded in December 1995, the legal seat of the Society of Hair Testing is Strasbourg, France. The constitution was written according to the French law. Elections were held every two years.
Founders
Mario Cassani (Italy), Marcello Chiarotti (Italy), Carmen Jurado (Spain), Pascal Kintz (France), Patrice Mangin (at that time France, now Switzerland), Manfred Möller (Germany), Hans Sachs (Germany), Jordi Segura (Spain), Christian Staub (Switzerland), Michael Uhl (Germany), Robert Wennig (Luxembourg)
Goals of the Society are:
Board Members
President
Christine Moore, Immunalysis Corporation (USA)
Vice-President
Robert Kronstrand, National Board of Forensic Medicine (Sweden)
Secretary
Gail Cooper, Forensic Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Treasurer
Michael Uhl, Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt (Germany)Administration board (in alphabetical order)
Ronald Agius (Germany), Brice Appenzeller (Luxembourg), Markus Baumgartner (Switzerland), Vincent Cirimele (France),(as at 2012)