Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is the Chair Professor at Energy and Sustainable Development, Montpellier Business School France. Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Visiting Research Fellow at Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is also Adjunct Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore Campus, Pakistan. His research focuses on development economics, energy economics, environmental and tourism economics etc. He has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals. He has published more than 325 research papers so far in the National and International referred publications, having a cumulative impact factor of 530 so far. He is among world's top 10 authors in Economics category as compiled by IDEAS.

Dr. Bassam Fattouh is the Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is specialised in international oil pricing systems, OPEC pricing power, security of Middle Eastern oil supplies, and the dynamics of oil prices and oil price differentials. He has many publications on oil and gas topics and his publications have appeared in academic and professional journals. Dr. Fattouh served as a member of an independent expert group that was established to provide recommendations to the 12th International Energy Forum (IEF) Ministerial Meeting for strengthening the architecture of the producer-consumer dialogue through the IEF.

Dr. Gary Campbell started giving lectures in the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Tech in 1982. He was in the team of establishing the MS in Mineral Economics Program (currently named Applied Natural Resource Economics) which accepted its first students in 1983. Dr. Gary is currently acting as the coordinator of that MS program and the associated Peace Corps Master’s International program. Dr. Gary is also the Editor of Resources Policy. Dr. Gary's research interests center around the economic behavior of mineral markets and social issues of mineral extraction. His researches are focused on the markets for rare earths and copper and at the social conflicts over opening and operating mines.

Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh is a Palestinian American citizen with a PhD in Economics from University of Kansas, USA. After Graduation from University of Kansas, he joined Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research as an Associate Research Scientist in 1981. He then worked for OAPEC in Kuwait from 1983-1989 and was part of the Arab team that worked on the OAPEC/ENI Interdependence Model in Rome, Italy during the period 1983-1985. During 1988-1989, he worked as a consultant with the World Bank working on Jordan’s Melody Energy-Economy in Amman, Jordan. Since then he has been a faculty member at Drexel University, where he was promoted to Professor in 2004. Dr. Hammoudeh is a prolific researcher who has produced more than 150 articles in quality, refereed journals.

Dr. Berrin Tansel is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Before joining FIU, Dr. Tansel was a project manager at Massachusetts Water Resources Authority on the Boston Harbor clean-up project. She has also worked at the Center for Environmental Management at Tufts University on preparation of several research reports to US Congress. Dr. Tansel is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and elected Diplomate of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. She is a member of Water Environment Federation, Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE, and Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. She is Co-editor in-chief of Journal of Environmental Management.

Dr. Zhang obtained his Master degree and Ph.D. degree in environmental sciences from Peking University. Prior to joining BNU in 2005, he was a research fellow in BOKU university of Austria. Dr. Zhang has been involved in research on various aspects of environmental accounting and management, with special focus on food-energy-water nexus, urban metabolism，and renewable energy systems since 2007. Over this time he has conducted research on life cycle assessment (LCA), Environmental Input-Output Analysis (EIOA) and Ecological Modelling techniques. Dr. Zhang is also recognized for his productive and highest cited scholarly output in environmental accounting and management. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and 5 books. His works are widely recognized and have more than 1500 citations with H-index of 23 according to Web of Science. Dr. Zhang has served as the deputy dean of School of Environment, the General secretary of Environmental Geoscience Branch of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. He has also served as principal investigator for more than 20 large-scale research projects. He was appointed as associate editor of Journal of Environmental Management in November since 2017.

Professor Hab Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ, DSc, Dr h c (mult) Head of “Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory – SPIL”, NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology - VUT Brno, Czech Republic and Emeritus Professor at “Centre for Process Systems Engineering and Sustainability”, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary.

Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is the Chair Professor at Energy and Sustainable Development, Montpellier Business School France. Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Visiting Research Fellow at Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is also Adjunct Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore Campus, Pakistan. His research focuses on development economics, energy economics, environmental and tourism economics etc. He has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals. He has published more than 325 research papers so far in the National and International referred publications, having a cumulative impact factor of 530 so far. He is among world's top 10 authors in Economics category as compiled by IDEAS.

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Dr. Tolga Omay received his PhD in Economics from Hacettepe University. He joined the faculty of Cankaya University in 2005. He also worked at Türk Hava Kurumu (THK) University during the period 2015-2017. He is now at the faculty of Department of Economics, Atılım University at Ankara. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Commerce Department of Massey University, New Zealand during the period 2006-2007. In addition, he received a number of prizes such as the Top Cited Article 2009-2011 “Testing unit root in nonlinear heterogeneous panels” Economics Letters, 2012; a PhD. Thesis Award, Economic Research Foundation, 2006, and other best paper awards. Dr. Tolga is the chief editor of Econometrics Letters.

• Nonlinear Time Series i.e. Time-Varying ARDL;
• TAR, STAR and Markov Switching Models;
• Identification, Estimation and Misspecification Tests for STAR Models;
• Nonlinear Unit Root tests Theory and Application i.e. the SOR Unit Root Test;
• Nonlinear Cointegration Test: Residual Based and Error Correction Based;
• Nonlinear Causality Tests;

• Time-Series Data: Energy Consumption, GNP, PPP, and Interest Rate
• Panel Data: Energy Consumption and GNP

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