Bill Lang has been a member of the Board of I‐INCE since its first meeting in 1975 in Sendai, Japan. From 1988 to 1999 he served as the President, and to this day remains a very active member of the Board. The INTER‐NOISE congress series has been the core activity of I‐INCE, and in every case Bill has contributed very actively to secure an excellent congress. He has also taken a number of initiatives both to improve the organization itself and to develop new activities, especially the Technical Study Groups that have prepared consensus reports on important issues such as noise barrier effectiveness and industrial noise hearing conservation policy. At present, he is very active in attempting to develop a global noise control policy.