APAC Awards

APAC Awards recognise individuals and organizations that have made an exceptional contribution to APAC and the international conformity assessment community.

APAC AWARD RECIPIENTS

APAC Life-Time Achievement Award
2024: Mr. Yoshinobu Uematsu

APAC Technical Excellence Award
2024: Mr. Mohan Sabaratnam

APAC Organizational Recognition Award
2024: Taiwan Accreditation Foundation

APAC Award
2024: Ms. Annette Dever
2024: Ms. Sharon Kelly

APAC AWARD CATEGORIES

The APAC Awards cover the following categories:

APAC Life-Time Achievement Award
An individual (normally residing within the APAC region) that has provided exceptional, distinguished and sustained service at regional and international levels to strengthen and promote accreditation, including the APAC MRA, ILAC MRA and IAF MLA over many years.

APAC Technical Excellence Award
An individual (normally residing within the APAC region) that has made an outstanding technical contribution to conformity assessment which is directly relevant to APAC at regional level and at international levels (e.g. IAF, ILAC, ISO). This individual should have made significant contributions in APAC, ILAC, IAF or ISO, as part of the relevant accreditation/standards/technical committees, working group(s), capacity building, training, and other work within the accreditation community.

APAC Leadership Award
An individual that has provided outstanding leadership within APAC and the IAF/ILAC and has strengthened and promoted accreditation and accredited conformity assessment activities across the APAC region. The leadership award nomination may also include upcoming leader(s) within the APAC Membership.

APAC Organizational Recognition Award
An organization that has made an exceptional contribution to accredited conformity assessment activities within the APAC region by actively supporting the development and strengthening of the APAC MRA, ILAC MRA and IAF MLA.
The organization may be an accreditation body, regulator, governmental body, industry association, conformity assessment body, consumer association, non-governmental organization, scheme/programme operator, or other stakeholder organization.

APAC Award
An award that may be specified from time -to-time by the APAC Executive Committee.

See APAC COM-005 for further procedural details.