ICRP - Key Persons
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Dr. Adrienne Ethier has over 25 years of professional and academic experience, and is currently an Environmental Risk Assessment Specialist at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). She also serves as a Technical Secretary and subject matter expert for ICRP, radiological monitoring and risk assessment subject matter expert for the IAEA, member of UNSCEAR public exposure working group, Canadian Federal Nuclear Science and Technology (FNST) Environment and Waste Research Co-Chair, and as an Adjunct Professor at Sherbrooke University. She is also an active participant on several Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Technical Committees on environmental and effluent monitoring, environmental risk assessment, and fish impingement and entrainment.
Dr. Ethier brings a balanced perspective to the development (CSA), implementation (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL)) and regulation (CNSC) of Canadian and International Standards from having served as a licensee (CNL), consultant (Arcadis, Calian) and regulator (CNSC, Environment and Climate Change Canada) on a broad range of provincial, national and international projects.
Dr. Ogino earned his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He spent 14 years at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), conducting research on low-dose and low-dose-rate radiation risks and their implications for radiological protection. He later joined the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) as Chief for International Affairs and Radiation Protection. Dr. Ogino has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications and delivered more than 90 professional presentations.
From 2016 to 2018, Dr. Ogino served as ICRP Assistant Scientific Secretary and Associate Editor of Annals of the ICRP (Publications 133-139) at the Scientific Secretariat in Ottawa, Canada. Following his tenure in Ottawa, he continued advancing the System of Radiological Protection, notably as a member of Task Group 114 on Reasonableness and Tolerability in the System of Radiological Protection.
In 2022, Dr. Ogino was honored with the Bo Lindell Medal at the 6th ICRP Symposium, recognizing his contributions to the advancement of radiological protection. His expertise in radiological protection led to his appointment as Chair of the IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC) for the 2024-2026 term. Dr. Ogino oversees the development of global safety standards aligned with ICRP recommendations.
Nobuhiko Ban received bachelor's and master's degrees in health sciences from the University of Tokyo. Following five years of work on individual radiation monitoring at Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation, he returned to the University of Tokyo as a research associate and obtained PhD in Medical Science. After serving as a faculty member at Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences (1998-2011) and Tokyo Healthcare University (2011-2015), he has been involved in regulations on nuclear and radiation safety as a commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan.
Dr Ban covers a range of topics related to radiation exposure and its health effects. He conducted researches on radiation damage to mouse hematopoietic cells in the context of leukemogenesis. Efforts were made to integrate experiments and modelling to get an insight into the mechanism of radiation-induced leukaemia. He has been also interested in dose and risk assessment of radiation exposure in medicine.
In addition to the research work, Dr Ban has a long career in education and training about radiation risk and radiological protection. His commitment extends to various parties, such as university students, medical personnel, nuclear workers, local officials and police officers. He was also involved in risk communication activities following the accident of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station. They include the chairperson of Steering Committee for the Question and Answer Website of Japan Health Physics Society, which dealt with a total of 1870 questions from the public in three years.
Dr Ban served as a member of Japanese delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) from 2010 to 2015. He became a member of Committee 1 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) in 2013 and has been working for Committee 4 since 2017. His activities in ICRP include the chair of Task Group 102 on Radiation Detriment Calculation Methodology. He has been the chair of the Working Group on Safety Culture of the Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities, the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/NEA) since 2017.
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- Co - Chair ), Lausanne University Hospital and Unversity of Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Friedo Zölzer ( Member ), University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
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- Member Emeritus ), France
- Member of Committee
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- Caprarulo ( Member ), Argentina
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- Head of Stakeholder Engagement and Communications
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- Member - Mentee ), Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Germany
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- Min Baek ( Member ), Pohang University of Science and Technology ( POSTECH ), Korea
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- Momo Takada ( Member - Mentee ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ( AIST ), Japan
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Ms. Olga German holds a PhD in Radiation Protection and Master's Degree in Radioecology.
Prior to joining ICRP, she worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), dealing with the development of safety standards for the applications of the radiation protection system, and supporting the Member States in implementing the safety standards. In recent years, Ms German served as Scientific Secretary for the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group (INSAG) and Scientific Secretary for Coordination Group for Uranium Legacy Sites (CGULS).
Some of her past experiences include Senior Inspector for Decommissioning at the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM), Senior Advisor on Environment and Radiation Protection at Vattenfall AB, Spent Nuclear Fuel Programme Coordinator at the Swedish Spent Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Management Company (SKB), and Project Manager at the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSI, now SSM). Ms German represented the Swedish nuclear industry in several international fora, such as OECD-NEA CRPPH, WNA, EC, IAEA, FORATOM and NKS.
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Prof. Eduardo GALLEGO, Full professor of Nuclear Engineering. Long academic career since 1986. Teaching activity on Radiological Protection, Radioactive Waste Management, Environmental Radiological Impact Assessment and Nuclear Safety. Supervisor of 9 PhD Theses. Director of UPM MSc Program on Nuclear Science and Technology. Head of UPM research group on Science and technology of advanced nuclear fission systems.
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