Academic Background
Dr. Ozaki graduated from the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan in 1962. He received a Doctorate in plasma spectroscopy from the Osaka University, Japan in 1970.

Professional Background
Dr. Ozaki joined to Hitachi Ltd. in 1962 as a research scientist and worked in a wide range of technologies; including plasma confinement for nuclear fusion, laser isotope separation for Uranium enrichment, and electron and proton accelerator system for high energy physics and cancer treatment, for more than 20 years. During that time, he participated in the US-Japan Collaboration Program on nuclear fusion experiments from 1979 to 1980.
After retirement from Hitachi Ltd. in 2000, he established the think tank "Institute for Techno-Economics" for energy and environment policies, and served as the CEO until 2010. Concurrently, he established the Linear Collider Forum of Japan, the academicindustry collaboration organization for particle accelerator construction and served as the Secretary General. In 2010, he resigned as CEO of the Institute for Techno-Economics and became an independent consultant on energy, environment and advanced technologies.

Present Position
Currently, Dr. Ozaki is a research fellow at the Institute for Applied Energy (IAE) and Japan Electrical Safety & Environment Technology Laboratories (JET) and advises on Japanese policy and strategy concerning the IEA-4E Implementing Agreement.

Academic Background
Mr. Ota graduated from Nagoya University in 1975 and joined Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., to participate in New Materials R&D projects.

Professional Background
In 1981, Mr. Ota moved to Toyoda Gosei’s Intellectual Property Dept. and worked at a law firm in Washington D.C. from 1987 through 1989.
In 1993, he moved to Toyoda Gosei’s Technical Administration Dept. and, moved to the Technical Planning Dept. in 1995 as General Manager.
In 1999, he became the General Manager of Technical Division in the Optoelectronics Business Unit.
In 2001, he was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
In 2005, he became a Managing Director of Toyoda Gosei Co, Ltd.

Present Position
In 2010, Mr. Ota retired as Managing Director of Toyoda Gosei Co, Ltd. and was elected as Corporate Auditor & Member of the Board of Corporate Auditors.
In 2010, he was elected as President of Japan LED Association.

Academic Background
Dr. Fontoynont graduated with a Masters’ degree (M.Sc) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, USA in 1981 and received a PhD from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris in Energy in 1987. He was awarded a Professorship at University of Savoy, Chambery, France in 1992.

Professional Background
Dr. Fontoynont worked as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (1981-1983). He created the Lighting Research Group at the National Engineering School of State Public Works (ENTPE) in 1987, in Lyon, France. He served as a head of the Building Sciences Laboratory of ENTPE from 2005 until 2011. He was a visiting professor at Universities in Switzerland, 1989;
Canada, 1995; Ireland 1996 and 1997, USA, 2003. In 2001, he co-founded the lighting engineering firm Ingelux, which now is a firm of 16 people. In 2005, he was elected a Vice-President of the International Lighting Commission (CIE). In 2008, he was elected the first Vice-President of the French Lighting Association. In 2009, he co-founded the French Lighting Cluster, which brings together 120 lighting companies and research laboratories, and serves as the Cluster’s Vice-President. In 2010, he was chosen to serve as Operating Agent of the Solid State Lighting Annex under the 4E Implementing Agreement of the International Energy Agency (IEA 4E SSL Annex)

Present Position
Since the summer of 2011, Dr. Fontoynont has been working in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a Professor with Special Assignment at Aalborg University (SBI Laboratory, Horsholm), and serves as Senior Scientist in the Photonics Laboratory of the Danish Technical University, Roskilde. He continues to serve as Operating Agent of the IEA 4E Solid State Annex.

Academic Background
Born in Athens in 1964, Dr. Zissis graduated in 1986 from the department of physics at the University of Crete. He got his MSc in Plasma Science in 1987 and a PhD in Plasma Science 1990 from Toulouse 3 University (France).

Professional Background
Dr. Zissis works in the field of Light Sources Science and Technology. He is especially interested in: the physics of electrical discharge sources used for lighting; system and metrology issues for solid-state lighting systems; normalization and quality issues for light sources; impact of lighting to energy, environment, quality of life, health and security; interaction between light source and associated power supply; illumination and lighting.
From 2003 to 2008, he acted successively as secretary, vice-chair and finally chairman of the IEEE-IAS Industrial Display and Lighting Committee (ILDC, formerly the PALC). Since 2008 he has been a member of the editorial board of the OSA/IEEE Journal of Display Technology on the behalf of IAS. He acted as Chairman of the European Union’s COST-529 "Efficient lighting for the 21st century" network, which created a network of more than 80 academic and industrial institutions from 20 European countries.
In December 2006, he won the 1st Award of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) Centenary Challenge for his work on normalization for urban lighting systems (in conjunction with IEEE, IET and the Observer). In 2009, he won the Energy Globe Award for France and received a Fresnel Medal from the French Illuminating Engineering Society.
From 2007-2010, he was deputy director of "LAPLACE", a joint laboratory between Toulouse 3 University, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse and CNRS (French National Council of Research).
He has published: a book, contributed chapters to 12 books, and 72 papers in WoS erenced journals, presented papers at 21 invited conferences; and has been a speaker at over 200 national and international events. He has also served as the advisor for 12 PhDs and numerous masters’ students.

Present position
Currently, Dr. Zissis is a Professor at Toulouse 3 University (France) and a Professor Honoris Causa at the Saint Petersburg State University (Russian Federation).
He is also the director of the "Light & Materials" (Lumiere & Matiere) research group of LAPLACE that enrolls 20 researchers.

Academic Background
Dr. Ohno graduated from the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, majoring in electrical engineering. He received a Ph. D. in engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1993.

Professional Background
Dr. Ohno started his career at the Lighting Research Laboratory, Panasonic Corp., in Osaka Japan, as an engineer for photometry and colorimetry. From 1984-1986, he was a guest researcher at the US National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology). His main research at NIST related to absolute integrating sphere methods for total luminous flux measurement. He came back to Panasonic in 1986 as a Senior researcher in optical radiometry and photometry. In 1992, he moved back to the USA and joined NIST’s Radiometric Physics Division as the Project leader for Photometry. He became the Group Leader for Optical Sensor Group at Optical Technology Division in 2003.

Present Position
Dr. Ohno is now the Group Leader of the Lighting and Color Group, Sensor Science Division at NIST. He was also recently appointed a NIST Fellow, one of top 40 scientists at NIST. He is active in international standardization work with CIE, CCPR, IESNA, ANSI, especially related to solid state lighting, and is currently serving as Vice President, Technical of CIE. He is the primary author of IES LM-79 and ANSI C78.377.

Academic Background
Dr. Nara graduated from the Physics Department of the University of Tokyo in 1974 and also received a Doctorate Degree in physics from the University of Tokyo.

Professional Background
Dr. Nara joined the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ) at the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. He has worked in the field of temperature standards and thermometry, including research related to thermo-physical properties of superconductors, for more than 20 years. He made significant contributions to establishing Japanese National standards for resistance thermometry, and has established the national traceability system through the JCSS.
He was appointed as Quality Manager of NMIJ/AIST and was responsible for the operation and development of the quality system in NMIJ/AIST to meet the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO/IEC Guide 65.

Present Position
Dr. Nara moved to the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) in 2010 and was appointed as the Chief Executive of International Accreditation Japan (IAJapan) in 2010. He also serves as the Chair of the Proficiency Testing Committee of the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC).

Academic Background
Mr. Ledbetter received his BA in Economics from the University of Montana.

Professional Background
Mr. Ledbetter has more than 30 years of experience working in the field of energy and the environment, and his work has focused primarily on policies, programs, and technologies to improve energy efficiency. His work in the last five years has focused on solid-state lighting, including development of test methods and performance standards, development and implementation of technology competitions, demonstration projects, commercial product testing and performance characterization, development and dissemination of technical information, and other efforts to speed market adoption of solid-state lighting.

Present Position
Mr. Ledbetter is the Emerging Technologies Program Manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Portland, OR. He manages a program that develops and implements methods to speed the market introduction and acceptance of advanced energy-efficient technologies for buildings.

Academic Background
Dr. Bennich studied physics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where he received a PhD in physics in 1996. The topic of his thesis was experimental studies of the chemical surface bond between atoms or molecules and metal surfaces. The main part of the experiments for his theis were performed at the synchrotron radiation facilities at the MAX laboratory in Lund, Sweden, the SSRL facility at Stanford University, and the ALS laboratory at Berkeley University, USA.

Professional Background
In 1996-1998, Dr. Bennich was lecturer at the Mid Sweden University, teaching courses in physics and electronics.
In 1998-2002, he moved to the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, and worked on projects related to power electronic based components in the electrical grid. He also worked as a program manager for projects on distributed generation, with a particular focus on wind power.
In 2002, Dr. Bennich moved to the Swedish Consumer Agency (part of the Swedish Government) to work with energy policies in general. In 2005, he moved to the Swedish Energy Agency (also part of the Swedish Government), to work as a project leader for a monitoring campaign of the domestic electricity use in 400 households.

Present Position
In 2008, Dr. Bennich changed positions within the Swedish Energy Agency to work with the EU directives on eco-design (minimum energy performance standards) and energy labeling. His current work is focused on lighting regulations. Since October 2011, he is the acting chair of the IEA 4E SSL Annex.

Academic Background
David Boughey graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honors majoring in Geography and History at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia in 1988.

Professional Background
David Boughey has over 20 years experience working in the areas of environmental policy and regulation in the Australian Government. This has included the development of biological diversity policy and legislation, environmental impact assessment of key projects including uranium mines and rocket launch facilities, as well as work on strategic policy issues.

Present Position
Since 2007 David has been the Assistant Director of Lighting and Equipment Energy Efficiency in the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. His key role has been the project management of the policy to phase-out inefficient incandescent lighting in Australia which has included oversight of the development of minimum energy performance standards for incandescent and compact fluorescent lighting and consultation and liaison with industry stakeholders and the public. David has also contributed to the development of regional initiatives to promote lighting energy efficiency and harmonization of standards including the development of the lites.asia forum for lighting efficiency policy makers and regulators.

Academic Background
Dr. Hua graduated from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology’s department of physics in 1982.

Professional Background
He joined the National Lighting Test Center, China in 1982. Since 2001, he is the Director of the National Lighting Test Center, and because of his deep understanding of lighting, serves as both the head of technical, and the administrative authority of the NLTC.

Present Position
He is the director of National Lighting Test Centre.

Academic Background
Mr. Kudo graduated from the Department of Advanced Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Japan in 2002, and received a Master’s degree from the Department of Intelligent Machines and System Engineering, Graduate school of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, in 2004. He has been working on his PhD in Technology Management at the Department of Technology Management for Innovation, School of Engineering, at the University of Tokyo, since 2009.

Professional Background
Mr. Kudo worked for the General Affairs and Policy Planning Department of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) from 2004 to 2006. He transferred to Assets Management Department at NEDO in 2006. In 2009, he moved to NEDO’s Electronics, Materials Technology and Nanotechnology Department.

Present Position
Since 2009, Mr. Kudo is the chief officer of the National Research and Development Project for next-generation LED and OLED. He is responsible for the development of photometry methods and equipment necessary for international standardization of LED lighting.

Academic Background
Mr. Denneman holds a Master’s degree in Physics from the Technical University of Eindhoven.

Professional Background
Mr. Denneman has worked for 35 years in the Lighting industry and has held several positions in Philips Lighting. He started in Research and Development as an engineer and worked as development manager for several lamp technologies (Fluorescent Lamps, CFLi, HID, CDM and special lamps) in several countries including the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States. He moved into Product Management and Marketing in the early nineties and was responsible for Philips' High Intensity Discharge (HID) business line. Amongst others, he introduced Ceramic Metal Halide (CDM) lamps to the general lighting market—a completely new lamp at the time. For several years, he was responsible for New Business Creation within Philips Lighting and from 2003 to 2008 he led all new concept and product development at Philips Lighting.
In 2001 he became a member of the Board of Directors of the European Lamp Companies (ELC) Federation - the major discussion partner for the European Union on all issues concerning light sources. He was elected president of the Federation soon after joining the organization and continues in that role today. In 2007, he was one of the founders of the Global Lighting Forum (GLF).

Present position
Currently, Mr. Denneman is a Vice President of Philips Lighting. Since July 2008, he is the head of Sustainability and the head of Government and Industry Affairs for Philips Lighting. In this role he manages Philips Lighting’s worldwide activities for sustainability, legislation, regulations and standards. He also manages Philips Lighting’s relationships with other industries.
In addition to his presidency of ELC, he was elected as the President of the Global Lighting Forum (GLF) in March 2009. GLF is the cooperation between lighting industry associations worldwide like CALI, NEMA, ELC, JELMA, the Lighting Council, ELCOMA, Taiwan Lighting, etc. Since 2001, he has served as the president of the ELC.

Academic Background
Dr. Nakamura graduated from the department of the built environment at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1986. He received a Doctorate of Engineering in 1993 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Professional Background
Dr. Nakamura joined the Tokyo Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1986. He was promoted to an associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993. He teaches design theory of the visual environment.

Present Position
Currently, Dr. Nakamura serves as an associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since 2011, he has served as the President of the Japanese National Committee of the CIE and as the Secretary of the CIE board of directors.