Judges

Peter Stevens   Chairman of judging panel

Visiting Professor of Vehicle Design

RCA

As the designer behind the famous McLaren F1 road car, the 1999 Le Mans-winning BMW, the Lotus Elan, Jaguar XJR-15 and the Subaru Impreza P1 road car among others, Peter Stevens is one of the most sought-after automotive designers. Peter is now a professor at London Royal College of Art, engaged in research and development of alternative and sustainable transport, including hovercraft, electric motorbikes and buses. He has also been working on new vehicle launches with the automotive division of Mahindra & Mahindra in India, and design consultation for Virgin Atlantic.

Shen XiangChao

Chief Styling Designer

CH-Auto 

CH AUTO chief designer, senior engineer, dedicated to automotive styling and modeling, with thirty years’ experience and a number of patents.
-- designed the “Year of Dragon” Edition of City Hunter, a highly successful model of Jeep, which achieved excellent sales record.
-- first to apply aluminum wheel rim in China, boosted significantly the domestic automotive manufacturing industry.
-- involved extensively in many military projects, advocate of non-paper designing and prototyping in tendering.
 

Cai Qian

Head of the Shanghai Design Studio 

Shanghai Volkswagen

Cai Qian is currently responsible for the design department of Shanghai Volkswagen Technical Center as chief designer, in charge of all design activities for VW and Skoda brand of Shanghai Volkswagen. Qian joined Shanghai Volkswagen in 1996 as a designer, involved in the styling project of Chinese-version PASSAT. After completing the 3-year training program in Volkswagen Wolfsburg Design he led teams to deliver SANTANA 3000, PASSAT Lingyu, LAVIDA Langyi and PASSAT New Lingyu among other latest models, keeping on enriching and optimizing the design strategy of integrating Chinese aesthetic. 

Min Cao

Director of Advanced Vehicle Design

GM PATAC

Cao Min joined Design Department of PATAC in June 1998 as Designer, later became Vehicle Chief Designer in 2002, Chief Designer/Senior Manager in 2004, and since 2007 as Advanced Design Chief Designer (Deputy Director). Min’s previous works include many PATAC's early design projects such as China’s first concept car “Qilin” and Buick Regel, LaCrosse, SGMW’s Wuling Zhiguang and Wuling Hongtu among some recent models like Cadlillac SLS interior and Buick New Regal. He has been heading the design development of recent concept cars such as 2007 PATAC’s 1st global concept car “Buick Riviera” and 2009 Buick Business Concept Car.

Richard Chung

Vice President for Industrial Design and Consumer Research

JCI

Richard is currently responsible for Johnson Controls' Automotive Experience group's Industrial design strategy and execution in Asia Pacific. He is also responsible in Product Marketing and External Communications to actively promote JCI's latest innovation & technology, as well as the Consumer Research. Richard has extensive automotive design experience from his previous employment at Ford motor company, where he spent 13 years in heading the North American Small Car design studio in Dearborn, Michigan, and Hiroshima, Japan. Richard's contribution includes the following vehicles: Ford Probe, Escort, Aspire/Festiva, Contour/Mystique, and Europe's most popular cargo van Transit.

Ding Yangfeng

Head of Design Team

FAW-VW

Ding joined FAW-Volkswagen in 2003 after graduated from Jilin University. Now as chief designer of FAW-VW design team, Ding is responsible for design work of VW brand of FAW-VWChaving been involved in many design projects with VW WOB Design.

Double Du

chief of the designer team

PSA-Peugeot/Citroen in China

Double Du graduated from Tsinghua university in 1996, previous experience include CATARC (China Automotive Technology & Research Center), Motorola north Asia CXD (consumer experience design ) CGM PATAC and YULONG COOLPAD .

Friedhelm Engler

Design Director

GM PATAC

Friedhelm Engler became design director at GM's Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) joint venture in Shanghai, August 1, 2007 to oversee the development of products for GM in Greater China. Engler joined GM in 1992 as a transportation designer in the Corsa and Agila Studio rising to global compact car design director with GM Europe Design in 2005. Before joining General Motors, Engler worked from 1988-1991 as a product designer at Frogdesign, Altensteig and Tokyo. A native of Kenzingen, Germany, Engler studied at Pforzheim and holds a master's degree in transportation design.

Simon Loasby

Director of Design

VW China

With his Master of Design degree from Royal College of Art Simon Loasby started his working career at Rolls-Royce and Bentley in 1991. After the delivery phase of the Bentley Arnage and Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph Volkswagen bought Bentley and Simon's focus became the delivery of the new mid-size Bentley Continental GT. In 2001 Simon moved within the Volkswagen Group to its HQ in Wolfsburg. In 2008 he was asked to take up a new position of Director of Design Volkswagen China, responsible for all design activities undertaken by both Volkswagen joint ventures (Shanghai Volkswagen and FAW-Volkswagen). 

Robert Walker

Design Manager

PSA-Peugeot/Citroen China

Robert Walker started his professional career in 1998 at the General Motors Design Centre, where he was a creative designer in the Interior Components studio dedicated to Chevy and Pontiac Brands. Between 1999 and 2008 he worked for Lear Corporation (Detroit and Seoul), GM Holden Design (Melbourne) and GM PATAC (Shanghai).Robert then accepted the position of Interior Design Manager with PSA Peugeot Citroen's newly opened Design Centre in Shanghai, China. In this capacity Robert is responsible for the production Interior design development of Peugeot and Citroen vehicles for the Chinese market and overseas as well as overall advanced design strategy for future vehicles in China.