Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

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. 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.

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.

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. Dr. Scott Cunningham is Professor at University of Strathclyde School of Government and Public Policy, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He earned degrees in engineering and policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of University of Sussex. After his PhD, he joined AT&T as a data scientist. He came back to Europe, and academia, as he was recruited as an assistant professor in policy analysis at Delft University of Technology. During working in industry, he worked for companies both large and small in the fields of knowledge discovery and data mining. His experiences included earning six national and international patents for his knowledge discovery work, and participating in successful startups in the Bay Area of California. He is currently an Editor in-chief of journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Dr. Scott teaches a course on Data Science for the Engineering and Policy Analysis (EPA) to MSc degree. He also teaches courses on text mining and text analysis for the edX platform. Furthermore, he teaches actor and strategy models for the EPA degree, and courses on network analysis and market design for the Systems Engineering and Policy Analysis (SEPAM) M.Sc. degree.