ITIA - Key Persons


Akira Kawaguchi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • President ( Right ), and Jeffery Green, Vice - President

Dr Burghard Zeiler

Job Titles:
  • Secretary - General ( Right ) and Wolf - Dieter Schubert, Technical Consultant
The monitoring of health and environment issues was a principal aim of ITIA. to monitor proposals for global legislation, regulations and other developments in the area of health, safety and the environment. to establish relationships with regulatory authorities in order to improve their understanding of the health and environment related to science of tungsten, tungsten compounds and hardmetals. to identify experts recognised in the area of human health and metals in order to be prepared to refute any published scientific allegations

Dr Wolf-Dieter Schubert

Job Titles:
  • Professor at the Vienna University of Technology
Dr Wolf-Dieter Schubert, Professor at the Vienna University of Technology, was appointed as the Technical Consultant in 2003. Schubert heads a group on metallurgy with particular emphasis on refractory metals and hard materials. He is author of more than one hundred scientific publications and has instructed more that fifty diploma and doctoral thesis works.