Ray Gluckman is a highly experienced technical and management consultant with over 40 years of experience in the fields of refrigeration, energy efficiency and climate change. Ray is a leading authority on reducing emissions of the powerful fluorinated greenhouse gases (the “F-Gases”, HFCs, PFCs and SF6), which are mainly used as refrigerants. He has worked on projects related F-Gases for nearly 30 years and has acted as a technical advisor in this field to the many private sector clients and to public sector organisations including the UK Government, the European Commission, the United Nations and the World Bank. Ray has an engineering degree from Cambridge University. He was President of the UK Institute of Refrigeration in 1995 and 1996. He received the Cooling Industry Gold Award in 2011. He is a senior advisor to the Montreal Protocol TEAP (Technical and Economic Assessment Panel) and a member of the Montreal Protocol RTOC (Refrigeration Technical Option Committee).