In 1993, Mr. Jean-Marie Reiff graduated as Mag. rer. nat. in
microbiology after studying at the University of Innsbruck in
Austria. He worked in the educational sector for several years
and joined the Ministry of Economy in 1996 to develop the
national accreditation system. In 2007, he was appointed acting
Director of the Service de l’énergie de l’Etat (SEE) with the
underlying objective to set up a new technical government
administration in the interests of administrative
simplification, efficient management and independence of
decisions. In June 2008, the new public administration Institut
Luxembourgeois de la Normalisation, de l’Accréditation, de la
Sécurité et qualité des produits et services (ILNAS) was created
and Mr. Jean-Marie Reiff was appointed Director. The main tasks
of ILNAS are standardization, digital trust, accreditation,
market surveillance and metrology. In his position at ILNAS, he
is representing Luxembourg in several European and international
organizations competent in the field of standardization and
accreditation. Mr. Jean-Marie Reiff is also Chairman of the
management board of the Agence pour la Normalisation et
l’Economie de la Connaissance (ANEC GIE), and has held this role
since ANEC GIE’s creation in 2010.
