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.

 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)

• Promotion of research in hair testing technologies in forensic, clinical and occupational sciences
• Development of international proficiency tests
• Organization of meetings and workshops
• Encouragement to scientific cooperation and exchanges among members

President:

Carmen Jurado (Instituto Nacional de Toxicologia, Sevilla, Spain)

Vice-president:

Christian Staub (Institut de Medicine Legale, Geneve, Suisse)

Secretary:

Christine Moore, (Immunalysis Corporation, Pomona CA, U.S.A.)

Treasurer:

Michael Uhl (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt, Munich, Germany)

Administration board (in alphabetical order):

Thomas Cairns, Carmen Jurado, Pascal Kintz, Robert Kronstrand, Christine Moore, Fritz Pragst, Simona Pichini, Hans Sachs, Christioan Staub, Michael Uhl, Michel Yegles