Mr Christopher Clement MSc CHP MSRP

Christopher Clement is Scientific Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). He became Scientific Secretary in 2008, the ninth person to hold the post since ICRP, originally established in 1928 as the International X-Ray and Radium Protection Committee. He oversees the day-to-day work of ICRP, represents the organisation in numerous international fora, and has delivered well over 300 invited lectures on radiological protection in more than 40 countries. As Editor-in-Chief, he has overseen the publication of more than 70 issues of Annals of the ICRP, which provide the foundation for radiological protection standards, legislation, and practice worldwide. In addition to his ICRP responsibilities, he has served since 2012 as a volunteer member of the Executive Council of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), including as President since 2024. He also serves as a volunteer Director of the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada.

Mr Clement holds a Master of Science degree in Medical Physics and is a Certified Health Physicist. He has more than 30 years of experience in radiological protection. Before joining ICRP, he worked in environmental monitoring and remediation, radiological counter-terrorism, and as Director of Radiation Protection at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, where he oversaw radiation protection regulation across all sectors in Canada. He also represented Canada for several years on the IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health.

He has received the two highest honours of the Canadian Radiation Protection Association: the Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011 and the Richard V. Osborne Founders’ Award in 2015. In 2019, he received the Ambassador’s Award from the Ambassador of Japan to Canada in recognition of his contributions to recovery following the Fukushima Daiichi accident and to the promotion of mutual understanding and friendly relations between Japan and Canada. In 2022, he was named a G. William Morgan Lecturer by the US Health Physics Society, and in 2024 he was invited to deliver the Dunster Lecture by the UK Society for Radiological Protection. In 2025, he received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation in recognition of his work related to the Fukushima Daiichi accident and his contributions to public awareness of Japanese foreign policy.