Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

Dr. Cecília M. V. B. Almeida is a professor in the Engineering Department of Universidade Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil, since 1998, and currently works as researcher in the LaProma (Laboratory of Production and Environment) within the Post-graduation Program in Industrial Engineering. Dr. Almeida is an elected member of International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research, member of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (US), and co-founder the Paulista Cleaner Production Round Table and the Advances in Cleaner Production Network (ACPN). She is Co-Editor in-Chief of the Journal of Cleaner Production and Editor in Chief of Cleaner and Responsible Consumption.

Prof. D’Maris Coffman is currently the Director (Head of Department) of BSCPM. She is Professor in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment at the Bartlett. I joined UCL in September 2014 as a Senior Lecturer. In February 2017, she was appointed Interim Director of BSCPM. Before coming to UCL, I spent six years as a fellow of Newnham College where I variously held a junior research fellowship (Mary Bateson Research Fellowship), a post as a college lecturer and teaching fellow, and a Leverhulme ECF. In July 2009, I started the Centre for Financial History, which I directed through December 2014. It is still going strong, but has moved from Newnham College to Darwin College in line with the affiliation of its new director. She is a Fellow of Goodenough College, where several of our doctoral students are residential members. She is also a Guest Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology and a Visiting Professor of Renmin University of China. Prof Coffman is Managing Editor of Elsevier's Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and on the honorary editorial boards of The Journal of Cleaner Production and Economia Politica.

Çevre ve inşaat mühendisi olan Prof. Tansel, FIU’daki görevine başlamadan evvel, Boston Limanı’nda temizleme projesinde Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’de proje yöneticisi olarak görev almıştır. Center for Environmental Management at Tufts University’de bulunduğu dönemde ABD Kongresi’ne sunulmak üzere hazırlanan çok sayıda raporun hazırlanmasında rol almıştır. Dr. Tansel, Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) ve Diplomate of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers’a seçilmiştir. Dr. Tansel aynı zamanda Water Environment Federation, Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE; Association of Environmental Engineering ve Science Professors’ün üyesidir. Dr. Tansel halen Journal of Environmental Management dergisinin de in-chief editörüdür.

Dr. Champbell, School of Business and Economics at Michigan Tech’de 1982’de görev yapmaya başlamıştır. 1983 yılında o zamanki adıyla “Mineral Ekonomisi Programı”, şimdiki adıyla “Uygulamalı Doğal Kaynaklar Ekonomisi” programının açılmasında görev almıştır. Halen master programının koordinatörü olarak görev yapmakta olan Dr. Champbell, aynı zamanda saygın SSCI dergi olan Resources Policy’nin de editörüdür. Dr. Champbell, mineral piyasalarının ekonomik davranışları ve mineral çıkartılmasında sosyal konular üzerine araştırmaları bulunmaktadır. Dr. Campbell son dönemde bakır üzerine çalışmalarına ağırlık vermiş olup, madenlerin açılması ve işletilmesi ile ilgili sosyal konularda önemli çalışmalar yapmıştır.

Ugur Soytas is the Co-editor of Energy Economics and editor of the Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics. He received his BS in Business Administration from Middle East Technical University (METU). He holds an MBA and a PhD in Economics from Texas Tech University. His research follows two main lines. First line is on the energy-economy-environment-society nexus and the second on commodity markets. He has published several papers in high impact peer reviewed journals such as Energy Economics, Energy, Energy Policy, Ecological Economics, Applied Energy, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Policy Modeling, and Journal of Banking and Finance among others. Several of his papers are recognized as highly influential in the energy economics and environmental and ecological economics fields. He has over 7500 citations and his h-index is 27 and i10-index according to Google Scholar. He has received several academic performance awards. He has conducted research with multidisciplinary teams in international projects as well as in Turkey. He provides consultancy to several governmental organizations and consulting firms.

Henrik Lund (born 2 July 1960) is a Danish engineer (M.Sc.Eng.1985) and Professor in Energy Planning at Aalborg University in Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. in Implementaion of Sustainable Energy Systems (1990), and a Dr.Techn. in Choice Awareness and Renewable Energy Systems (2009). Henrik Lund is a highly ranked world-leading researcher. He is listed among ISI Highly Cited researchers ranking him among the top 1% researchers in the world within engineering. Henrik Lund has many years of management experience as head of department for approx. 200 staff persons (1996-2002), head of section for approx. 50 persons (2014 – 2016) and head of research group of 20-30 persons (2002 – present). During his time the Sustainable Energy Planning research group at Aalborg University has now grown to approx. 30 staff members including 5 professors. Henrik Lund is the author of more than 400 books and articles including the book ''Renewable Energy Systems”. He is the architect behind the advanced energy system analysis software EnergyPLAN, which is a freeware used worldwide that have form the basis of more than 100 peer reviewed journal papers around the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of “Energy” journal publishes by Elsevier with annual 8000+ submissions.

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is currently the chairman of the department. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Glamorgan in 1995. In June 2011 he received from the University of Glamorgan the title of D.Sc. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. For more than 35 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination and absorption cooling. Additionally, he is involved in a pioneering research dealing with the building integration of solar thermal systems (BISTS), for which he chaired also COST Action TU1205. He has a large number of publications as books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another seventeen journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier. He has been a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) since 1992 and is a member of the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).