Dr. Per-Edvin Persson (1949), until 1983 research scientist at the University of Helsinki (including passages on Academy of Finland grants and a fellowship year in Canada), 1983- 87 Director of the Federation of Finnish Scientific Societies, 1987 - 91 Director of Science at Heureka and since 1991, Director of Heureka.Dr. Persson was President of the Nordic Science Centre Association 1987-91, President of the European Science Centre network ECSITE 1997-98 and President of the international branch organisation Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), in 2004-2005. He served on the ECSITE Board 1991-2001, and continued serving as the Chair of the ECSITE Development Committee in 2002-2003. He has served on the ASTC Board since 1993, in 2000-2001 as Vice President and in 2002-2003 as Secretary-Treasurer and Chair of ASTC’s Finance and Audit Committee. He served as Chairman of the First Science Centre World Congress in Finland in 1996, and has served on the Programme Committee of subsequent Science Centre World Congresses (Calcutta, 1999, Canberra, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, 2005, Toronto, 2008). He served as Chair of the ReDiscover Fund Advisory Board in the UK in 2002-2005. He was a member of the international evaluation group of La Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris in 2001, and has been a member of the Kuratorium of the Deutsches Museum since 2002.