Amardeo Sarma is an electrical engineer and founder and current Chair of the German Skeptics organisation GWUP e. V. He was previously Chairman and currently a Board Member of ECSO. Amardeo is also Fellow and Executive Member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and recipient of the CSI (then CSICOP) Distinguished Skeptic Award in 1998. Amardeo Sarma is General Manager at NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH with the current main technical focus of IT security. He has written and spoken about the Shroud of Turin, dowsing, Climate Change and the skeptical movement.