Graeme Lister is Chair of the IES Industrial Lighting Committee. He has 30 years experience in the lighting industry, including positions in research, development, and management. He is now a lighting consultant based in the Boston area and his current project is to manage the replacement of street lighting with LEDs in the City of Lynn, MA. Much of his career was spent in the technology, research and development of discharge lighting systems as a key scientist and successful team leader of technically complex and multidisciplinary research projects at Thorn Lighting UK and Osram Sylvania and recently Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer, Ceravision Limited, UK. He has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and has written more than 100 published articles and papers. Graeme has been active in the development and implementation of regulations and standards related to roadway, area and industrial lighting for many years, through membership of IES and ANSI committees He has a BSc and MSc in Physics from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia.