LightingEurope Confirms Executive Board and President

The newly appointed Board confirmed Maurice Maes as President of LightingEurope on the same day. Maurice Maes has been Head of Standards & Regulations at Signify since 2015 and has more than 25 years of experience in associations, having served on the boards of industry initiatives such as the ZigBee Alliance, LightingEurope and as President of the Global Lighting Association.

Jürgen Waldorf, Managing Director of the ZVEI Lighting Division and licht.de, was also reelected as Vice President, and Miguel Aguado, Marketing and Technology Manager EMEA at Lutron, was re-elected as Treasurer.

"I am honoured to be re-elected as President of LightingEurope and would like to thank the Board and our members for their trust. Our industry is at a pivotal moment, with opportunities to better enforce existing regulations and shape the ones to come. Together with the members of the Board and the Secretariat of LightingEurope, our mission is to lead the European lighting industry towards the LightingEurope 2030 vision, promoting a European market where the value of lighting is widely recognised, supported by robust regulations that encourage innovation in sustainable, digital lighting," says Maurice Maes.

The Executive Board consists of the following members (by alphabetical order of family name):

• Miguel Aguado, Lutron, UK (Treasurer)
• Alfredo Berges, Anfalum, Spain
• Flavio Bertoli, Ledvance, Germany
• Jean-Marie Croué, Syndicat du Luminaire-GIL, France
• Alfonso D’Andretta, Gewiss, Italy
• Ayça Donaghy, The LIA, UK
• Emmanuel Gagnez, Syndicat de l’Éclairage, France
• Fahir Gök, AGID, Türkiye
• Maurice Maes, Signify, The Netherlands (President)
• Jörg Minnerup, Trilux, Germany
• Isacco Neri, Assil, Italy
• Arnulf Rupp, Inventronics, Germany
• Mark Oliver Schreiter, Erco, Germany
• Carlo Urbinati, Assoluce, Italy
• Klaus Vamberszky, Zumtobel Group, Austria
• Dr. Jürgen Waldorf, ZVEI, Germany (Vice-President)

Contact: Elena Scaroni, Secretary General, elena.scaroni@lightingeurope.org

About LightingEurope
LightingEurope is the voice of the lighting industry, based in Brussels and representing 32 companies and national associations. Together these members account for over 1,000 European companies, a majority of which are small or medium-sized. They represent a total European workforce of over 80,000 people and an annual turnover exceeding 15 billion euro. LightingEurope is committed to promoting efficient lighting that benefits human comfort, safety and well-being, and the environment. LightingEurope advocates a positive business and regulatory environment to foster fair competition and growth for the European lighting industry. More information is available at www.lightingeurope.org.