As Chief Design Officer of Philips Lighting, Rogier van der Heide focuses on innovation-led lighting design to create meaningful, life-enhancing solutions. He has 20 years of experience in engaging, inspiring, three-dimensional design that fuses light, image projection, architecture and product design into memorable, authentic experiences. Before joining Philips Rogier was Director at Arup and Global Leader of Arup Lighting. In that role, Rogier has been responsible for innovative, creative and well-executed projects all over the world. Rogier’s work is widely recognized as leading in the field of creative and independent lighting design for which he has received many design awards. Rogier delivers many lectures, presentations and seminars about design, business, and strategic design, at numerous international conferences. He is a member of the Board of the Netherlands Photography Museum FOAM and was Professor at the Architecture Faculty of the Technical University of Graz, Austria until 2009. Currently, Rogier is a Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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