Lawrence C. Bank is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Bank conducts research on the mechanics and design of composite material structures with an emphasis on applications to civil engineering. Dr. Bank has conducted research under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, the Federal Highway Administration, the US Navy, the US Army, the US Department of Transportation and private industry. He has authored numerous technical publications on composite materials and structures. Dr. Bank was the founding Editor of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction and is a member of technical committees of the American Concrete Institute and the American Society for Testing and Materials. Dr. Bank was recently elected Vice-President of the International Institute of FRP in Construction (IIFC). Dr. Bank received his B.Sc. degree cumlaude from the Technion in Israel in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in New York City in 1982 and 1985, respectively. He has previously worked as a Structural Engineer with the firm of Skilling, Helle, Christiansen, Robertson in New York City (1980-1981), as a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1985-1988), and at The Catholic University of America (1988-1997).

Dr. Len Hollaway is Professor of Composite Structures in the School of Engineering - Civil Engineering, University of Surrey and is also visiting Research Professor at the University of Southampton; he was one of the founding members of the IIFC. He has considerable research interests in advanced polymer composite systems and has been engaged on research into fibre/matrix composites for 35 years; his area of interest can be classified under three broad headings, namely, stress analysis, concept development and design guidelines. He has had published over 170 refereed technical papers and is the author or editor of eight books on various aspects of composites in the civil engineering industry.

Zhitao Lu, born on 4th November 1937 in Zhejiang province of China, is a Professor in Civil Engineering at Southeast University, Nanjing , China . He is also a Director of the Chinese Civil Engineering Society (CCES), Vice President of the Institute of Prestressed Concrete of the CCES. His research interests include concrete and prestressed concrete structures and applications of FRP composites in construction. He has published 7 books and over 140 scientific papers. His latest research in the latter area has laid the technical basis for the design and construction of the first CFRP cable-stayed bridge in China .

Professor Lu is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has been awarded many honorary titles such as State Expert (1986), State Excellent Model Teacher (2001) and Award for Science and Technology of the Ho-Liang-Ho-Li Foundation (1999). He is also the recipient of 20 prizes including the Second Prize for Progress in Science and Technology from the State, First Prize for Progress in Science and Technology from the Ministry of Education, and First Prize for Progress in Science and Technology from Jiangsu Province. Professor Lu has successfully supervised about 50 PhD and 60 MSc students to completion.

Atsuhiko Machida is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Saitama University, Japan. He received his B. Eng, M. Eng and D.Eng from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1963, 1965 and 1976 respectively. After his graduation he worked for Saitama University for more than 30 years, and recently he served four years as the Dean of Faculty of Engineering and the Vice President. He has been working also as a member or a chairman of many research committees on concrete engineering in JSCE (Japan Society of Civil Engineers) and JCI (Japan Concrete Institute). His research interests include use of FRP for concrete structures, seismic resistant design of reinforced concrete structures and steel-concrete hybrid structures.

Professor Urs Meier is currently deputy director general of the United Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) with 820 co-workers in Dubendorf-Zurich, Switzerland. He is also associated member of the Department of Materials Science of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Urs Meier has accomplished much in the application of advanced composites in civil engineering during the past 25 years and has received worldwide recognition for his pioneering work. Especially noteworthy is the post-strengthening of civil structures with carbon fiber reinforced polymer strips, which has been successfully implemented at a growing rate worldwide and the CFRP stay- and post-tensioning cables. He has received a number of prizes and awards for his R&D-contributions.

Dr. Aftab A. Mufti is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is also the Program Leader and President of the ISIS Canada Research Network, a Network of Centres of Excellence, and the President of ISHMII (International Society for Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures). His research interests include FRPs, FOSs, FEM, bridge engineering, structural health monitoring and civionics. He has authored or co-authored nine books and more than 200 technical publications. Dr. Mufti is the recipient of 16 awards. He is the holder of several patents on the steel-free bridge deck concept, of which he is the principal developer. In addition, he is the Chair of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canadian. Highway Bridge Design Code that has recently completed developing code clauses to design, rehabilitate and repair structures using fibre reinforced.

Professor Nanni is the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla and holds a professorship at the University of Naples Federico II. He is a structural engineer interested in construction materials, their structural performance, and field application. In the past 19 years, he has obtained experience in concrete and advanced composites-based systems as the principal investigator of projects sponsored by federal and state agencies and the private sector. Professor. Nanni has maintained a balance between academic and practical experience. He is an active member in the technical committees of ACI (Fellow), ASCE (Fellow), ASTM and TMS. In 2004, he was elected Founding Fellow of IIFC. He was the founding Chairman of ACI Committee 440-FRP Reinforcement and is the current Chairman of ACI Committee 437-Strength Evaluation. Professor Nanni is the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. He was the editor of a book on the subject of FRP reinforcement for concrete and co-edited the proceedings of several International Symposia and Workshops on the same subject. Among his honors, Professor Nanni was recognized with the Engineering News-Record Award of Excellence for 1997 (Top 25 Newsmakers in Construction).

Luc R. Taerwe obtained his civil engineering degree at Ghent University (Belgium) in 1975, his Master degree in Structural Mechanics in 1976 and his Ph.D. degree in 1985. In 1988, he received the Robert L' Hermite Medal of RILEM (International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Materials and Structures) and in 1991 the IABSE Prize (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering). In 2001 he became a fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). Actually, he is a full professor of concrete structures at Ghent University, Head of the Department of Structural Engineering and director of the Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research. He also is a convenor of several committees in fib (international federation for structural concrete), chairman of the "Concrete" committee of the Belgian Standards Institute and member of the editorial board of several international journals. His research interests include non-linear analysis of concrete structures, statistical aspects of conformity control, structural reliability, FRP reinforcement, monitoring, non-destructive testing and fire resistance. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 journals and conference papers.

Professor Jin-Guang Teng is Chair Professor of Structural Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was the founding President of IIFC and was re-elected President of IIFC at the CICE 2004 conference for a second term. He was also Chairman of the first CICE conference (CICE 2001) held in Hong Kong , which has now evolved into the IIFC official conference series. Dr. Teng is the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Advances in Structural Engineering and a member of the editorial boards of 4 other international journals. Dr. Teng's research interests include the application of FRP in construction, steel structures, and shell structures. His publications include the book " FRP-Strengthened RC Structures"(John Wiley and Sons, 2002), over 120 refereed journal papers and over 130 conference papers. He has received a number of prizes and awards for his research contributions. In the FRP area, his research has been focused on understanding the failure mechanisms of RC structures strengthened with externally bonded FRP reinforcement for the development of theoretical models for use in design. More recently, he has embarked on research exploring the use of FRP in new construction, particularly when in combination with traditional materials.

Ueda Tamon is a professor at Division of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering of Hokkaido University. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1982. He worked at University of Washington, University of Tokyo and Asian Institute of Technology before joining Hokkaido University in 1991. His research interests are in numerical analysis of concrete and hybrid structures, prediction of chronological change in structural performance, upgrading of structures, seismic design, and structural design methodology. He has been carrying out studies on interface modeling for externally bonded FRP reinforcement and application of fiber with high fracturing strain. He is a member of fib , IABSE, ICCMC, IIFC, JSCE, JCI and JPCEA. Dr Ueda is currently Chairman of ICCMC (International Committee on Concrete Model Code for Asia ), Vice-President of IIFC (International Institute of FRP in Construction) and Secretary of ISO/TC71/SC7 (Maintenance and Repair of Concrete Structures).