Mark Major
United Kingdom
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CEO Speirs & Major

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.

Walter Debenedetti
Uruguay
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Walter Debenedetti graduated as Architect at the Republic University of Uruguay (1989) he did a postgraduate degree in Territorial Planning (Faculty of Architecture, Montevideo/UY) he also received a Diploma in Latin American Cultural Heritage (Blas Pascal University, Córdoba / AR)

Debenedetti is the director of Cultural Heritage of Colonia. He is a member of the management team of the “Historical Neighbrhood Management Plan of Colonia del Sacramento” and a full member of the “Land Fractionation Commission” in Colonia. He is currently working in the development of the urban project and redevelopment of Manuel Lobo Square, within the Historic Quartier, also in the refunctionalization and enhancement of the Plaza de Toros (Bullring) and the Building of the Indigenous Museum in Colonia del Sacramento. He was general coordinator of the “Departmental Committee of Heritage of Colonia” and secretary of the “Heritage Council of the Old Colonia del Sacramento”. He also played coordination roles in the “Building Regulations of Colonia”, the “Digital Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Urbanistic of the Historic District of Colonia del Sacramento “,and the” Project of Local Plan of Territorial Planning and Sustainable Development of the city of Colonia del Sacramento “. He is a member of the World Heritage Committee, UNESCO, a consultant to the World Bank and a tutor for Town Planning at Grenoble University, France and the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Morón, Argentina. He is the representative of Colonia del Sacramento before the WHCO in Quebec, Canada