2024-2025 SAMPE global executive cabinet and global board of directors announced

2024-2025 SAMPE global executive cabinet

• Global President – Yiping Qiu, PhD, FSAMPE, Professor and Director, Shanghai Key Laboratory, College of Textiles, Donghua University
• Global Immediate Past President – Tsuyoshi Ozaki, PhD, President and Director, Composites R&D Company, Ltd. 
• Global Executive Vice President – Allan Crasto, PhD, FSAMPE
• President, North America Region – German Reyes-Villanueva, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn
• President, Europe Region – Conchúr Ó Brádaigh, PhD, Vice-President & Head of Faculty, School of Engineering, The University of Sheffield
• President, China Region – Xiaosu Yi, PhD, FSAMPE, Li Duk Sum Chair Professor, University of Nottingham Ningbo China; and CEO, YangTze River Delta Carbon Fiber and Composite Material Innovation Center
• President, Japan Region – Kiyoshi Uzawa, PhD, Professor and Director, Innovative Composite Materials R&D Center, Kanazawa Institute of Technology 
• Global Secretary – Rebekah Stacha, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, SAMPE 

2024-2025 SAMPE global board of directors

Past Presidents  

• Past President, Europe Region – Luigi Torre, PhD, FSAMPE, Professor, Material Engineering Center, University of Perugia 
• Past President, North America Region – Jerome Berg, Technology and Development Manager, Northrop Grumman, Aeronautics Systems

North America Region

• Robert Brushaber, Engineering Division Director, Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc. 
• Stephen Scarborough, Product Development Manager, Air Liquide 
• Scott Stephenson, Director, JSS Composites LLC, and Senior Advisor, 47G UAMMI Institute 
• Paul Wienhold, Principal Professional Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University 

Europe Region 

• Arnt Offringa, FSAMPE, Director, Global Technology Center Netherlands, GKN Fokker
• Guy Larnac, PhD, Technical Domain Coordinator for Materials, Structures and Industrialization, JTFR, Ariane Group

China Region 

• Zhenghua Cao, PhD, Professor and Director, Composite Material Center of AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, AVIC Composite Corporation Ltd. 
• Yan Li, PhD, FSAMPE, Professor and Dean, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University 

Japan Region 

• Kazuto Tanaka, PhD, Professor, Doshisha University 

Congratulations to SAMPE’s dedicated volunteers for their continued service to its members and the industry.