Allan D Boardman from the UK University of Salford is a worldwide Expert on the Global Revolution known as meta-materials that is now transforming science. He was the Co-Chair of this huge meta-material conference under the photonics Europe heading. He holds a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham and is responsible for 328 peer-reviewed and other publications, generating 5432 citations. He has been Topical Editor for the Journal of the Optical Society of America B for meta-materials. He is a Fellow of the SPIE and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He is also a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications