We introduced the Association in response to requests over recent years from independent local groups who have sought such a shared platform, and have seen IFES as its natural home.

The Association is co-ordinated by Martin Herdegen, who is an associate professor of financial mathematics. He has experience of ministry across three European countries. As an undergraduate he studied in Munich in his native Germany. As a doctoral student in Zurich he helped to found a local postgraduate group in conjunction with the German-speaking Swiss IFES movement. On moving to his current role at the University of Warwick, he started a postgrad and staff fellowship.

Association mentors include Tom Rizzo, a Professor of Chemistry at EPFL, Switzerland, and others who work alongside Martin in support and encouragement of group leaders, and they are all supported administratively by Jon Savage.