Mark Major
United Kingdom
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CEO Speirs & Majors

Mark Major trained and practised as an architect prior to focusing on the unique relationship between light and architecture.

He has worked on a wide range of award-winning lighting projects including the Millennium Dome, 30 St. Mary Axe, Beijing International Airport, the refurbishment of Royal Festival Hall and the re-lighting of the interior of St. Paul’s Cathedral. He is a specialist in the field of urban lighting and was named as a key city advisor by Monocle in 2013.

Mark acted as the Lighting Design Advisor to the Olympic Delivery Authority for London 2012 and was appointed to the Mayor of London’s Special Assistance team for the Outer London Fund in the same year.

With an active interest in architectural and lighting education Mark has lectured extensively in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, U.S. and Australia. He was the co-creator of an educational project ‘Made of Light – the Art of Light and Architecture’.

Mark is a corporate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and a Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

He was created a Royal Designer for Industry in 2012.

Nathalie Rozot
USA
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CEO, Phoscope

Nathalie Rozot, CEO, PhoScope, is a transdisciplinary designer based in New York who situated her design practice in lighting design in 2000. In 2011 she founded the think tank on light PhoScope to advance change in the practice, education, and critical study of light, and to foster lighting’s engagement in design discourse. PhoScope aims to transfer knowledge about light, challenge conventional practices, and serve social justice and environmental stewardship.

Rozot is the recipient of awards from the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) of North America, grants from the City of Paris, the New York State Council for the Arts, the New York State Energy Development Agency and Parsons; fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Architecture, the MacDowell Colony and the New York Foundation for the Arts; and sponsorships from NYFA and the Van Alen Institute.

She has taught lighting in Masters programs at the New School and in Versailles and Lille’s schools of landscape architecture, and she is a former education columnist for the IES publication LD+A. She has published and lectured globally on social and critical issues in lighting and has served internationally as an academic and professional juror.

Rozot holds a University Degree in Biology and a Diplôma from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués Boulle. She is a member of the IES and an educator member of the IALD.

Sharon Stammers - Martin Lupton
United Kingdom
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Light Collective

Light Collective are not a standard lighting consultancy…

There is only two people in the company.

They are based in the UK but have worked with light all over the world.

Their portfolio of work includes more than architectural lighting design projects.

It also encompasses educational, guerrilla, community and other creative events such as light festivals, exhibitions and awards.

They also like making films about light and have their own TV channel.

All of their work has light at the heart of it and always looks to promote light and lighting design to as wide an audience as possible.

Anne Rindell
Finland
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Associate Professor at HANKEN School of Economics,

Helsinki, Finland

Adjunct Professor at Turku University Business School, Turku, Finland

Anne Rindell’s main subject for teaching and research is marketing, more specifically branding. She has taught these subjects on all univercity levels, eMBA and in executive education for more than 20 years. During the last 7 years she has been in charge at Hanken of two company/externally funded research projects within which she has arranged a number of workshops and seminars for companies. Additionally, her research has been published for example in Journal of Product and Brand Management, Journal of Branding, European Business Review.