The Nominees

She is amazing, has and continues to contribute so much to our industry in a very caring, community focused way!!

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Adam de Guara

Ligia is a driven designer who combines her architectural background with her passion for creating beautiful environments through her designs.

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Priyanka Aswani

Sabri is passionate about lighting, and she manages to transmit that passion in architecture and in education.

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Carolina Yonamine & Elena Longo

Kamila is a futurist creative director whose works blur the line between the real and virtual world.

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Justyna Kosior

Zorica initiative and engagement is focused on the development of the Light culture , in a professional sense and also for the public at large including decision-makers in the public and private sector

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Laurent LOUYER

She is one of the few outstanding female lighting designers in China who has the ability to express and deliver her concept by giving a well-structured speech.

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Jenna tsailin Liu

Despite being unable to tell the story of light face to face during the challenges of 2020, Danielle was determined to remain connected to her community and delivered her knowledge via the digital world.

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George Stavridis

Diane is a passionate and intentional lighting designer, impactful business owner, and all-around champion for building up those around her.

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Michelle Gallegos

A tireless supporter of women throughout the lighting industry, Jimalee inspires with her amazing achievement, passion, and integrity.

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Jill Cody

Carolina's achievements are working with generosity, love and passion. Natural light inspires her every day.

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Sabrina Mandel & Elena Longo

Elena's achievements have been to open her own lighting studio while she became a mother. She loves light.

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Sabrina Mandel & Carolina Yonamine

Awesome mentor, manager and leader, in 2020 Barbara retired as CEO, reaching the highest level in her 40+ years career

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CHIARA CARUCCI

Studio Mark has been involved in some amazing projects this year with outstanding success.

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Lloyd Piersawl

Professional achievement and recognition

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Alicia Davila

Despite immigration struggles and a worldwide pandemic, Mara persevered to start her own flourishing lighting design studio.

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Wesley Burdett

Founders of the KTH Lighting Laboratory, that in 2020 celebrated its 20th anniversary, with profound impact on a whole generation.

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Diana Joels

Motoko Ishii is a pioneer in lighting design in Japan, and her contributions over the years have made people realize the importance of beautiful light.

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Aki Hayakawa

Chandni has been an inspiration in the past year as she has faced the pandemic very bravely: being a young designer during the lockdown is not easy, but she has not lost her smile and her positive attitude, showing how much women can be resilient!

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Arianna Ghezzi

For her passion for light and art and her positive energy and collaborative attitude. Martina has been constantly supporting the WIl project and massively contributing to the industry by sharing her knowledge on talks and virtual events in 2020

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Anonymous

Siempre activa para mantener los lazos en la Asociación Argentina de Luminotecnia, comunicando con pasión el arte de la luz

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Alejandra Cer

Eve's much admired entrepreneurial spirit and passion for lighting has created an impressive portfolio enabling industry experts to thrive.

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Charlotte Hendy

The name that pops up when anyone searches for anything about lighting design is Nelca Roco.

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Engr Michael Santiago & Prasanth Stephen

I would like to nominate for a WIL Achievement Award Martina Frattura and Dipali Shirsat for their R.A.W blog and the work they do with me on the WIL survey - history of woman in lighting design

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Karolina Zielinska-Dabkowska

A utility patent for a 3D Lighting effect was issued last year whereby she created a sunset halo using sunlight.

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Richard Saja & Edward Hogikyan

Dedicated to lighting for health & wellbeing; an educator on circadian design -Lorraine’s projects make a difference to people’s lives

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Gemma Snelling

Almost died of Covid, beating it twice, and literally got back on her bike training and volunteering for the ILP.

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Institution of Lighting Professionals

Volunteer ILP Vice-President, Managing Director, and experienced consultant. In 2020 Rebecca led her company in manufacturing ventilators, supporting the NHS.

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Institution of Lighting Professionals

One of lighting’s most intelligent people - showing and sharing knowledge, skills and understanding -plus having a heart of gold.

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Institution of Lighting Professionals

Volunteering for the lighting community, working for balance in a male orientated industry, demonstrating that women can and do succeed.

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Institution of Lighting Professionals

Rebeca founder and CEO of a company dedicated 100% to the entertainment industry, inspired many people to continue to pursue lighting and adapt despite the change in the industry. Positivity is her strongest amazing character.

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Jet Dayawon

Amanda boasts almost 40 years of experience in senior roles in the lighting sector and is highly regarded in the industry

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Ellie MacDonald

I am nominating Dañiel Luna-Fuller because she is such a strong woman in the industry. She went from being in military to owning her own lighting design company. And has accomplished so much in her business since it opened.

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Eryn Bradburn

I would like to nominate her for the phenomenal contribution as well as achievement in lighting design profession handling everything all by herself and as an active participant in various industry forums.

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Surbhi Jindal

A go-getter, Ragne’s ambition exudes from every bone of her body and continues to drive sales for DH Liberty Lux.

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Anonymous

Sulene é uma grande profissional, ama o que faz, projetar, criar e explicar para o clientes e colegas de trabalho.

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Vitória Neres Magalhães

Due of her organization and her initiative under work task, and her long career as a lighting designer

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Francisco Perez Andrade, Marco Eugenio Teran Figueira, Tamara Hamideh, Herlys Pereira, Jesus Yepez & Macarena Risso

Not only is she a highly skilled designer, Florence has contributed much to our lighting community for many years and is such a great role model for designers such as myself.

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Anne Truong

For the outstanding 18 years of work on behalf of the strenght of the lighting design profession as CEO of the IALD

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Monica Luz Lobo

Emma's incredible initiative to create Skills Army - a tool for young designers to navigate their way around the lighting industry.

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Lauren Lee Page

Bright in the pandemic! Following 4 years of lighting activities, they established a company in 2020. They played an effective role in acquainting Iranians with significance and promotion of lighting design by giving free lighting consultancy services.

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Toktam Naimi

Ula is a young, up and coming designer who started off with exploring clay in it's tactility, honesty and vulnerability and has managed to combine that with stunning lighting installations as she explores the union of the two further.

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Anonymous

Trained in architecture and urban design, Lisa is the mastermind behind the creative vision of HagenHinderdael’s lighting range. She has exceptional eye for detail and delivery and is the wizard turning all HagenHinderdael’s ideas into stunning reality.

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Anonymous

Amazing Lighting designer, besides being a verry talented artist.

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Brecht Nollet

Eugenia Cheng, founder of LightOrigin Studio in Hong Kong, is an up and coming lighting design powerhouse.

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John Chow

In 2020, Nitika bravely set up her own lighting consultancy in Germany and received a grant from German government for her start up.

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Cehao Yu

Henrika Pihlajaniemi is an Architect (M.Sc.) and D.Sc. (Tech), researcher, lighting designer and an initiator of a long needed education of architectural lighting design in Finland (2020-). Her influence on the lighting culture in Finland is significant!

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Annukka Larsen

Virginie produces fantastic lighting scheme with a great attention to detail

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helene dabrowski

Always remaining positive whilst bravely and successfully setting up her own company in the last year.

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Linda Salamoun

Camila is one of the most powerful and innovative designers. She grew into the creative world and developed several products (objects, furniture, grafik content, etc.). The past year pushed her into the lighting world, developing and realizing amazing ligh

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Elena Diena

Elena is a light promoter, she inspires and expands the light language. I have seen her transform people's percepcion with her work and with herself.

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Camila Fernñandez

During a year that turned the world upside down, she inspired and drove the company forward, while hosting coffee chats virtually for anyone that need to talk.

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anonymous

Sophie was awarded the SLL Lighting Award 2020, recognising outstanding service to the Society and the lighting industry. Sophie has led the production of numerous lighting guides, working tirelessly to share lighting education and best practice guidance.

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Anonymous

Margaret O Rorke is a ceramic artist designing high class lighting in porcelain using led in a genius way.

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Karin Widnäs

Natalia is a lighting designer with a huge professional background. After 7 years of successful work at Arup Natalia came back to Moscow to establish the lighting design course at Moscow Architecture School initiating a new age of lighting design in Russia

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Anonymous

Thinking about Jésica and her job is to think about light. In 2020 published “iluminando espacios”, with more than 50 artists talking about light and obtained an honorable mention by the LIT Lighting Design Awards.

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Alfonso Lemus

Midory has reached new career heights while keeping her work life balance and enthusiasm. Her passion fills a room.

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Rachael Stoner

Follow your passion even in pandemic! As an experienced architectural lighting designer, Senay had an amazing achievement in 2020 via following her passion about theatre/stage lighting and be a lead lighting designer for a zoom theatre, White Wings.

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sebnem gemalmaz

A girl who is in love with light and inspires others, Architectural lighting designer, Co-founder of the [WAVELENGTH] magazine, Lecturer

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Olga Tuzova

Bettina Pelz has been curating light-based exhibitions for over 20 years throughout Europe and also particularly in Tunisia. She is a pioneer of light art worldwide.

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Dr. Helena Horn

Sharing knowledge is Berry's passion! He loves the lighting design profession and wants nothing more than to get others enthusiastic about the profession too.

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Ellen Goulmy

Gemma left a stable, full time role to set out on her own in the middle of a pandemic!

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Brian Glynn

She is the founder of Light-Life-academy, an online academy about lighting with online courses and free educational posts on Instagram. Dr. Ahmadi is an influential person to enhance public awareness about lighting and increase professional`s knowledge.

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Elham Hedayati

Kristina has shown incredible passion for lighting and ecology over 2020. She has been talking about the circular economy before it was fashionable to do so. In 2020 she has been using her influence to make our world a better place.

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Anonymous

Ruth will be the president of the Society of Light & Lighting from May 2021. And she is Great.

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Jonathan Rush

Former banker turned manufactucturer, Marisa is the CEO and Creator of Maerich - a lighting brand of Singapore. Maerich's G-Spot shorted for Lighting Design Awards 2020 and Darc Awards 2020. Winner of LIT Awards 2020.

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Anonymous

Angela is the design director of Light Collab. She leads the team on numerous challenging projects, A mother of 2 young children, keeping level-headed, having the interest of the team at heart, and also invited speakers for numerous talks.

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Yah Li Toh

Monica has spent 34 years designing and promoting lighting. She is a light activist and the incoming president of the IALD.

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Anonymous