Global Cooperation/Standards Expert Program (SEP)SEPsEstablished in 2005, the Standards Expert Program (SEP) is a key benefit offered to MOU signatories. Each year, through the SEP, ASTM offers to host three standards experts for a one-month period at ASTM headquarters. During their stay, the expert learns about ASTM International and its operations, ASTM technical committees and ASTM’s virtual tools. The experts also travel to a Committee Week and visit other standards-related public and private organizations located in Washington, D.C. Each expert is asked to identify a key sector with which we can conduct a virtual meeting with the expert’s participation from headquarters and they are asked to provide staff with a presentation on the structure and function of their respective national standards body. SEPs hosted to date:
Standards Expert Program (SEP),
Other International Visitors/Interns
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At the time of her visit, He Ting had been with SAC for two years and worked within the machinery and materials division on industry and transportation. Her responsibilities at SAC included working with the steel, nonferrous metals and other materials committees. She is a graduate of Tsinghua University where she majored in materials science and engineering.
Ari Wibowo spent a month in the fall of 2006 at ASTM International headquarters as part of the SEEP. His intent was to learn about ASTM’s history and organizational structure as well as the process by which BSN could adopt ASTM standards as national standards.
Nguyen Minh Bang, who was deputy director of the standards department at STAMEQ at the time of his visit, came to ASTM headquarters for one month in 2006 to learn about standards development.
ASTM welcomed Margaret Lungu - a standards development manager at ZABS at the time of her visit - for a month-long standards expert internship in 2006. 
At the time of his visit to ASTM International, Mohammed A. Al-Dablan was a construction and buildings materials standards researcher at the Standardization Organization for the Gulf Cooperation Council, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Al-Dablan earned a B.S. in civil engineering with a sub-major in structural and geotechnical engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh. 
Daniel Trillos was a standardization professional at ICONTEC (Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación), the national standards body of Colombia at the time of his visit to ASTM. Trillos holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia, and an M.S. in environmental management from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
At the time of his visit to ASTM, Jun-ho Kim was responsible for planning national standardization and supporting standards developing organizations at the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards. Previously, he was a researcher of renewable energy, rotating machinery and nuclear energy standardization. Jun-ho earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in power electronics from the Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.
At the time of her visit to ASTM International, Patricia Castro Espinoza worked as an analyst for the Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (INDECOPI), where she was in charge of management and coordination of national technical committees, and was also involved in several regional, national and international standards issues. Espinoza has a degree from the National Agrarian University, La Molina Lima, Peru. 
Pan Biechen has served as an officer in the division of materials of the industrial standards department at SAC since 2007. His work has revolved around China national standards for buildings and construction. 
Adelaide Teimle Leigh has been with GSB since 2006 and is currently the assistant standards officer. She performs tests and prepares reports on products for the building and construction industry. 
Napthali Pollak has worked in standards development at SII since 1996. He prepares drafts of Israeli national standards and directs various standardization committees. 
Ajani Blake has worked at BSJ since 2006 and is currently a standards development and certification officer. He handles conformity assessment audits and works on Jamaican national standards for cement. 
Percy Malatsi works as the Project Leader in the Chemical and Mining department at SABS. He is Studying Chemical Engineering. An MOU was signed between ASTM and SABS in September 2003. In 2008, SABS adopted five ASTM standards as identical South Africa national standards and consulted 139 ASTM standards in the preparation of national standards.
Nguyen Van Khoi has worked at STAMEQ since 1995 and is currently the Senior Official of the Standards Department. His main responsibilities include developing policy, law & regulations and technical guidance for standard activities in Vietnam. An MOU was signed between ASTM and STAMEQ in February 2004. According to STAMEQ, close to 150 ASTM International standards have been used as the basis for Vietnamese national standards and 12 ASTM standards have been referenced in Vietnamese regulations. The ASTM International standards cover a wide range of sectors important to Vietnamese industry, including metals, petroleum, paint, soil and rock, construction and roofing materials, aviation fuels, rubber and plastics.
Ruba Ayeid Al-Thawabeia is a standardization officer at the Jordan Standards and Metrology Organization, where she is responsible for the secretariats of three national technical committees related to the chemical sector: chemicals, cosmetics and fertilizers. Al-Thawabeia is also responsible for standards and technical regulations on toy safety.
Lee Hooi Lan is a senior executive of the engineering standards management and consulting services section, Standards Research and Management Center, SIRIM Berhad, in Malaysia. As a senior executive, she is responsible for overseeing standards development activities for the sectors within the assigned group. This responsibility includes training, subcontract personnel, monitoring projects and maintaining coordination.
Soronzonbold Sukhbaatar is a Senior Officer and Petroleum Engineer from the Mongolian Agency for Standardization and Metrology (MASM). His main responsibilities are coordinating the daily activities of Mongolian Standardization National Council as well as the activities between the National Standardization Technical Committees and organizing the Mongolian Standardization National Council meetings. 
Jabor Mohamed Al-Naimi is a Senior Engineer and Head of Mechanical Standards -Standards and Metrology Department at the Qatar General Organization for Standards and Metrology (QS). He started his career as a specialist in Metrology and Calibration Laboratories, then as a Standards Specialist attending various workshops and seminars on standardization and Technical Barriers to Trade issues and represented the State of Qatar in regional and international standards-related events.
Bekir Çengelci is the Director to the Turkish Standards Institution's (TSE) President’s Office. Prior to his appointment to the President’s Office, Bekir worked in the Strategic Planning Department and was responsible for preparing TSE’s Strategic Plan, annual performance program and annual report.
Romana Marunda is a Standards Development and Information Management expert at the Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ). She currently manages the Standards Development & Information division. Romana is primarily responsible for managing the national standards development programme and the standards information centre which is also Zimbabwe’s WTO/TBT Enquiry Point.
ASTM International welcomed Zhang Li Hong, who held the position of vice director of the standardization division at the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision at the time of her visit, for a two-month internship at ASTM headquarters that began in June 2004. Zhang’s internship was developed as part of the cooperation agreement signed in 2003 between ASTM and the Shanghai Institute of Standardization, which reports to SMBQTS. 
Guo Dehua, a graduate of Tianjin University who majored in precision instruments, has worked at the China National Institute of Standardization for more than 11 years. At the time of her visit with ASTM, Guo Dehua worked in the library of standards at CNIS and did research work in standards information management. She was also responsible for overseeing the cooperation agreement signed in 2003 between CNIS and ASTM International.
Huang Xiaopu visited ASTM from March 30-Sept. 25, 2006. Mrs. Huang has worked in standardization management at the Xiaohe branch of the Guiyang Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision since 1999. In September 2005, Mrs. Huang received a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council to visit ASTM International.
Zhang Minglan of the Shanghai Institute of Standardization, visited ASTM International for one month in spring of 2006. Ms. Zhang, who has worked at SIS since 1998, was vice director of the Center of Standardization Research, which consists of nearly 20 researchers, at the time of her visit. Ms. Zhang’s main responsibilities included administration of the center, harmonization within and across the center, and organization of standardization research projects.
Ma Na, who has been at SIS since 2003, was a researcher in the SIS Center of Standardization Research at the time of her ASTM visit. In the past, Ms. Ma has taken a lead role in drafting three standards on project management and two on environmental assessment at SIS. She is also a member of ASTM International Committee D34 on Waste Management.
Shujuan “Carrie” Xie, a standards expert from the Shandong Provincial Institute of Standardization in China, spent six weeks at ASTM International headquarters in November 2007 as part of her yearlong visit to study standards and conformity assessment in the United States. Carrie was the recipient of a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council which she chose to use to support her time in the U.S. as a guest researcher.