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Dr. Alan Ekin, Covestro LLC, USA
Dr. Charles R. Hegedus, Consultant, USA
Mr. Graham A. Howarth, Arropol Chemicals, USA
Dr. Gary R. Larson, Consultant, USA
Dr. Theodore Provder, Polymers and Coatings Consultants, USA
Dr. Jill E. Seebergh, The Boeing Company, USA

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Dr. Maqsood S. Ahmed, Allnex, USA
Prof. Jamil Baghdachi, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Prof. Hadj Benkreira, University of Bradford, UK
Prof. Stuart G. Croll, North Dakota State University, USA
Dr. Colin Cwalina, The Dow Chemical Company, USA
Dr. Bernard S. W. Dawson, Scion, New Zealand
Prof. Flavio Deflorian, Università di Trento, Italy
Dr. Michael Diebold, The Chemours Company, USA
Dr. Richard Eley, Consultant, USA
Dr. Ray Fernando, California Polytechnic State University, USA
Dr. Xiaobo Gong, PPG Industries, USA
Dr. Umesh Harkal, Henkel Corporation, India
Dr. Dariush Hosseinpour, Proctor & Gamble, USA
Prof. Mats Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Ravi G. Joshi, Munzing North America LP, USA
Dr. Søren Kiil, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr. Matjaz Kunaver, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
Dr. Wah Sing Loh, Retired, Singapore
Dr. Brian Makowski, Sherwin Williams, USA
Prof. Vinod C. Malshe, Consultant, India
Prof. W. Marshall Ming, Georgia Southern University, USA
Prof. Vijaykumar Minnari, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Dr. Brian Okerberg, PPG Industries, USA
Prof. Alexander A. Pud, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
Prof. Bernard Riedl, Université Laval, Canada
Mr. Erik Sapper, California Polytechnic State University, USA
Dr. Christopher Seubert, Ford Motor Company, USA
Dr. Subrahmanya Shreepathi, Asian Paints, India
Prof. Jaromir Snuparek, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Prof. Mark Soucek, Unviversity of Akron, USA
Dr. Li-piin Sung, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Prof. Serkan Ünal, Sabancı University, Turkey
Prof. Nurseli Uyanik, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Mitchell A. Winnik, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Qiaolong Yuan, East China University of Science & Technology, People’s Republic of China
Dr. Maria Zielecka, Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection — National Research Institute, Poland
Dr. Peter Zarras, NAWCWD, USA

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