The Icsid Executive Board is elected biennially during the General Assembly and is made up of the President, the President-Elect and nine Board Members. The honorary members of the Board dedicate their time and expertise to sustain and develop the organisation in order to elevate member services and solidify Icsid’s global role. Over the years, numerous boards have defined their priorities, together contributing to the wide range of tools and activities available to Icsid today.

THE BOARD



Carlos Hinrichsen, Chile, President
Professor Hinrichsen is an industrial designer, practicing in Chile since 1992. He holds a Master of Engineering degree received in Japan in 1991. Since 1992, he has been professor and director of School of Design, Instituto Profesional DuocUC of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and was head of DuocUC Design Center from 1998 to 2003. He has been a design process consultant for over two decades focusing on product and strategic design. He is also currently the Design Director for the Latin American Region of Design Innovation, a European Design company with clients and prospects all over the world. He has participated as Research Director in projects concerning technological innovation in design education, as well as successfully coordinated agreements between Latinamerican, Japanese, European and Asian Universities and organisations. Prof. Hinrichsen has been a member of the Icsid Board since 2001 and has actively been involved in Interdesign workshops. Since 2002, he has been an honorary member of the Chilean Association of Design Firms; QVID.




Dr. Mark Breitenberg, USA, President-Elect
Dean of Design Science and Research at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, USA; PhD in Literature and Critical Theory from the University of California, San Diego; Author of many articles in the fields of art, design education and literary history; Author of Anxious Masculinity, a book on Shakespeare and his contemporaries; Assistant Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College from 1987-1994; Adjunct Professor, Otis College of Design, 1998-2000; Writer/Producer at Parkwood Pictures, 1996-1998.




Brandon Gien, Australia, Treasurer
Mr. Gien is the Executive Director of the Australian International Design Awards, Australia's longest standing design awards program. Amongst other roles, he is also the General Manager, Corporate Services for Standards Australia, recognised by the Government as Australia's peak Standards body. With a background in management and industrial design, he has been responsible for restructuring the Design Awards program over the last decade. The program is now recognised and highly valued by Australian business, industry, academia, media and the general public for its key role in promoting the value of design and for fostering a broad based culture of creativity and innovation in Australia. Mr. Gien studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Newcastle where he later graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Design. He is currently undertaking a Doctoral Thesis in Environmental Design at the University of Canberra.




Wen-long Chen, Taiwan
President of Nova Design, Mr. Chen is also a member of the executive board of Taiwan Design Center. He has more than 20 years of experience in design management and leadership involving over 150 transportation design projects and over 1,000 product design projects. In 2005, Mr. Chen became the first Chinese designer to sit on the iF judge panel. In the following years, he continued to expand the operation of his design company to China, USA, and Italy and was awarded the "Outstanding Personal Accomplishment in Taiwan Industrial Technology Advancement Award" and the "Dragon Award for Outstanding Enterprise Innovation in China."




Leimei Julia Chiu, Japan
Ms. Chiu has worked with major Japanese corporations as well as with governments and academic institutions in over 38 countries across Europe, North America, and the Pan Pacific Rim. In addition, she has lectured at design conferences and academic institutions in over 23 countries. From 1997 through 2001, Ms. Chiu acted as Vice President of Icograda. She has served on numerous competition juries, including Red Dot Design Concept Award, Brno Biennial, Design for Asia Award, World Design Leadership Award, BIO; and currently serves on the Jury of the Good Design Award, Japan's only overall system for evaluating and promoting design.




Martin Darbyshire, United Kingdom
Mr. Darbyshire worked for leading product design consultancies, Moggridge Associates in London and ID TWO in San Francisco between 1983 to 1989 (both now part of IDEO), before founding tangerine in 1989. Over his 25-year career, he has had extensive hands-on experience of consumer insight research, innovation strategy, design and design strategy in all of the major industry sectors, working with clients in over 15 countries. Currently, he is responsible for the strategic development of tangerine, creating new business opportunities and giving direction to design.




Lorraine Justice, China
Lorraine Justice is currently the Swire Chair and Head of the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has served in higher education for the past 20 years, in the areas of design research, industrial design and computer interface design. She was Director of the Industrial Design Program in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant on the integration of technology and design, a SIGGRAPH Educator's Grant, and a team Smithsonian Award in Education for the "Mission to Mars" exhibition developed in cooperation with the National Science Foundation and Apple Computer. Fellow of the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), she has consulted on design with corporations such as Apple, CompuServe, Chemical Abstracts, CheckFree, Hedworth, Microsoft, NCR, and Lutron.
Prof. Justice was responsible for co-organising the First China-USA Industrial Design Conference in Beijing, and the first Doctoral Education in Design Conference in Ohio. She also serves on the advisory board of two international design journals, Design Issues and The Design Journal, as well as jurist and reviewer for international conferences.




Dr. Darlie Koshy, India
Dr. Darlie Koshy is the Executive Director and Ex-officio Governing Council member of India's National Institute of Design. A doctorate in Management from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a holder of Masters' Degree in Business Administration, Dr. Koshy brings with him 28 years of multifaceted experience in management both in industry and academia with added involvement in technology-design fusion initiatives in India. He is also the Chairman of the National Design Business Incubator at NID and sits on various boards of leading commercial and educational organisations. He has been providing design leadership through various initiatives over the last five years through CII-NID Design Summit, NID-ITPO Design Centre-Showcase, BW/NID Design Excellence Awards International Design Promotion efforts and above all, through the development of a draft National Design Policy.




Jae-jin Shim, Korea
Vice President / Chief of Digital Display & Media Design Laboratory at Corporate Design Center of LG Electronics Inc. in Seoul, South Korea since 2000; Vice Chairman at Korea Federation of Design Associations since 2004; Executive Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Industrial Design at the Federation of Korean Industries; Board Member at Design and Brand Management Society since 2003; Board Member at Korea Society of Design Science; Vice Chairman at Korea Association of Industrial Designers from 2000 to 2003.




Kazuo Tanaka, Japan
Born in Tokyo in 1956, Kazuo Tanaka is currently the President of GK Design Group, which was founded in 1952 and is the largest freelance design office in Japan. In 1981, Mr. Tanaka graduated from the School of Design of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in industrial design (MA). In 2005, he was appointed as the Director of Sign and Street Furniture for the EXPO Aichi, Japan project. He is a visiting lecturer at many universities in Japan and has been a juror for the Good Design Award since 2003, as well as for the Red Dot Award since 2008. Since elected as a board member of Icsid in 2007, he has been widening his activities internationally.




Judit Várhelyi, Hungary
Director of the Hungarian Design Council from 2002. Freelance designer, consultant and lecturer at the Szt. István University, Budapest from 2000 to 2002. Journalist at Octogon Magazin of Design and Architecture from 2000 to 2002. Freelance designer, lecturer and interpreter in Tokyo from 1994 to 2000. Designer at Nikken Sekkei Japan from 1991 to 1994.