Tony Donné has been in contact with ASIPP in several functions: 

As Chair of the ITPA Topical Group on Diagnostics he organised the very first ITPA meeting in China at ASIPP in 2004, as Director of the Fusion Department of the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) he set up a mutual collaboration between ASIPP and DIFFER that was signed during a visit in 2013. In his present function as Programme Manager of EUROfusion he also coordinates collaborations between European Research Institutes and ASIPP. Additionally he is member of the EAST Programme Advisory Committee.